Samuel Gorton (1593–1677) was an early settler and civic leader of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and President of the towns of...
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Gorton is an area of Manchester in Greater Manchester, North West England. It is to the southeast of Manchester city centre. The population at the 2011...
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171 miles (275 km) northeast of New York City. Warwick was founded by Samuel Gorton in 1642 and has witnessed major events in American history. It was decimated...
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established Providence Plantations Miantonomo, nephew of Canonicus, sold Samuel Gorton and others the land to establish Warwick, Rhode Island Canonchet, son...
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split among the settlers in Portsmouth Warwick established in 1642 by Samuel Gorton These four settlements merged into a single Royal colony in 1663 Plymouth...
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Here they had serious disputes with their neighbors, particularly Samuel Gorton, and they put themselves and their lands under the jurisdiction of Massachusetts...
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separate settlement of Newport after disagreements among the founders. Samuel Gorton purchased lands at Shawomet in 1642 from the Narragansetts, precipitating...
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Gorton, American educationalist Mark Gorton, American CEO Nathaniel M. Gorton (born 1938), American judge Neville Gorton, Bishop of Coventry Samuel Gorton...
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advocated severe punishment for those whom he deemed heretics, such as Samuel Gorton. Cotton was a scholar, an avid letter writer, and the author of many...
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Samuel Gorton and ten others in purchasing land that became the town of Warwick. Difficulties with Massachusetts ensued, until he accompanied Gorton on...
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Adelos Gorton, The Life and Times of Samuel Gorton (Philadelphia: George S. Ferguson, 1908), pp. 13–15 Adelos Gorton, The Life and Times of Samuel Gorton, (Philadelphia:...
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figures appear, including Puritan leader John Winthrop, Puritan heretic Samuel Gorton, and the Pequot Native American Mononotto. The story starts with William...
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That settlement, however, quickly split into two separate settlements. Samuel Gorton and others remained to establish the settlement of Portsmouth in 1638...
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chimney. The original structure was built by Samuel Gorton Jr., and was later bought by his niece's husband, Samuel Greene. This was the home of two 18th-century...
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of their neighbors in Warwick, the so-called Gortonites led by Samuel Gorton. Gorton had been causing disturbances for several years and had already...
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settlement of Newport after disagreements among the founders. Dissident Samuel Gorton purchased Indian lands at Shawomet in 1642, precipitating a dispute...
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Quaker merchant and farmer. Greene was descended from John Greene and Samuel Gorton, both of whom were founding settlers of Warwick. Greene had two older...
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public order in Europe. Taylor & Francis. p. 256. ISBN 978-0-7099-2242-1. Samuel Augustus Mitchell (1859). A general view of the world: comprising a physical...
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Hutchinson became acquainted with Samuel Gorton, who attacked the legitimacy of the magistrates. On 28 April 1639, Gorton and a dozen other men ejected Coddington...
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years on Aquidneck Island (called Rhode Island at the time), he joined Samuel Gorton and ten others to establish the town of Warwick in early 1643 on land...
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Gorton's of Gloucester is a subsidiary of Japanese seafood conglomerate Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd., producing fishsticks and other frozen seafood for the...
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faction. This new law was soon tested when William Hutchinson's brother Samuel arrived with some friends from England. They were refused the privilege...
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time. Another dissenter that was originally part of Williams's party, Samuel Gorton, later split from that group and founded his own settlement of Shawomet...
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True Relation of the Governor and Company of Massachusetts against Samuel Gorton, a Notorious Disturber of the Peace (1646), to which was added a chapter...
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Edward Winslow spelled it "Nanohigganset", while Rhode Island preacher Samuel Gorton preferred "Nanhyganset"; Roger Williams, who founded the city of Providence...
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Rose Wickes, daughter of John Wickes and Sarah (née Gorton) Wickes (granddaughter of Samuel Gorton) in 1724. Wait Holden (1696–c. 1748), who married her...
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George Baquet Samuel Gordon (novelist) (1871–1927), English novelist Samuel Gorton (1593–1677), early Rhode Island settler This disambiguation page lists...
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Gill, Samuel (11 June 2024). "Adam Hunt produces nine-dart finish, but loses to returning Kim Huybrechts". Darts News. Retrieved 11 June 2024. Gorton, Josh...
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Robert Coles (settler) (section Gorton controversy)
Greene gave Samuel Gorton—a religious leader and agitator fleeing Portsmouth—some of their land in Pawtuxet. The parcel Coles gave to Gorton was at Papaquinapaug...
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, Boston 1854), pp. 1–113 (Internet Archive) Gorton, Adelos (1907). The Life and Times of Samuel Gorton. George S. Ferguson Co. p. 38. OCLC 4669474. Hall...
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