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-http://www.newporthistory.org/about/brief-history-of-newport/
Since its founding by English settlers in 1639, Newport has bustled with diversity. The policy of liberty of conscience and religion embodied in the Newport Town Statutes of 1641 was a result of the religious beliefs of its founders and their frustration over political intervention in their religious life in Boston....
The first English settlers arrived on Aquidneck Island in 1636 following a remarkable woman named Anne Hutchinson. She had been driven out of Boston for her religious beliefs which challenged the very foundations of Puritanism. She and her band of supporters followed the path taken by Roger Williams when he, too, was banished from Massachusetts for religious reasons. After consulting with Williams, her group purchased Aquidneck Island (later named Rhode Island) from the native Americans.
Ann Hutchinson’s group settled at the northern end of the island in an area known as Pocasett. In just over a year, however, that settlement split in two. A group lead by William Coddington and Nicholas Easton moved south to form Newport in 1639.
By the time they arrived in Newport, many of these settlers’s were becoming Baptists and embraced a belief that was central for the Baptists of Europe at the time – the separation of church and state. These early settlers founded their new town on the basis of liberty of conscience and religion and Newport became one of the first secular democracies in the Atlantic world....
Among the religious groups attracted to this haven in a world of threatening intolerance were Quakers and Jews.... Although the Jews came to Newport in the 1650s, their real contribution to the cultural and economic life came in the 1750s. The Quakers also came to Newport in the late 1650s. The Society of Friends flourished and grew, and, by 1700, over half of Newport’s population were members of the Society of Friends.
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Vital record of Rhode Island : 1636-1850 : first series : births, marriages and deaths : a family register for the people
by Arnold, James N. (James Newell), 1844-1927
Published 1895
Topics Registers of births, etc, Marriage licenses
Rhodes,
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RHODES Joseph, of Joseph and Mary, Providence, to Ann Rodman, of Clarke and Ann, Newport, March 14, 1750.
Anne, of Joseph and Ann, Portsmouth, to Jonah Hathaway, Mid- dleto?rn, of John and Elizabeth, Freetown, Nov. 8, 1781.
p361
RHODES Neheraiah, of Cranston, and Abigail Thomas, of Newport, Nov. 14, 1762.
Rebeckah and Edward Dickens, Oct. 24, 1769.
Penelope and Thomas Creapon,Aug.26, 1776.
Abigail, of Stoniugton, and Job Greene, of Rhode Island, Nov. 29, 1785.
p387
RHODES Mary and Stephen Greene, Oct. 24, 1754.
Holden, of Holdeu, and Susanna Wall, of John, both of Warwick, March 12, 1769.
Elizabeth and Richmond Springer, Oct. 16, 1785.
Ishmael, of Warwick, and Martha Newfield, of Cranston, Nov. 20, 1791.
p402
RHODES James, of Warwick, and Sarah Hunt, of Cranston, Aug. 16, 1795.
Sarah and John A. Aborn, Oct. 4, 1795.
Rosannah and Stephen Smith, Jan. 9, 1797.
Christopher, of Warwick, and Elizabeth Allen, of North Kings-town, Nov. 23, 1802.
Waitey and Wickes Gardner, Dec. 9, 1802.
William, of Warwick, and Sarah Arnold,, of Cranston, Feb. 20,
p457
RHODES Fenuer and Mary McCann, pub. Sept. 7. 14, 21, m. Sept. 21, 1800.
Thomas and Lydia Keene, pub. Nov. 25, 27, 28, m. Nov. 29, 1804.
Mary and George Updike, Dec. 31, 1804.
Eliza and Stephen Arnold, about Aug. 1, 1811.
Dolly Ann and Randall PuUen, June 11, 1812.
Catherine A. and Charles Ware, May 11, 1817.
Amos Jenckes and Harriet Maria Aborn, pub. June 1, 8, 15, m. June 17, 1823.
Joseph, of Cranston, and Ruth Chandler, of Providence, pub. March 7, 14, 21, in. April 18, 1824.
Eliza and Thomas Henry, about June 13, 1824.
Peleg A., of Providence, and Eliza Avery, of Montgomery, Mass., pub. Oct. 12, 13, 14, 1827, m. .
Phebe and George C. Arnold, May 19, 1831.
Eliza Fenner and Thomas Brown, Jr.. May 28, 1833.
p502
RHODES William N. and Mary J. Gushing, March 21, 1796. Kezia and Mitchell MacKenger, Feb, 2, 1«04.
Charles and Nancy Brown, Aug. 5, 1804.
James E. and Mary Fox, Jan. 1, 1818.
p522
RHODES Sarah and Randall Holden, 1830.
p622
RHODES Mary Eliza, Sept. —, 1822.
Thomas, , 1834.
p632.
RHODES Mary, wife of Theodoty. July, 1707.


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History of Newport County, Rhode Island. From the year 1638 to the year 1887, including the settlement of its towns, and their subsequent progress
by Bayles, Richard M. (Richard Mather), ed
Published 1888
Publisher New York, L. E. Preston & Co.
Pages 1324
Possible copyright status NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language English
Call number 6324103
Digitizing sponsor Sloan Foundation
Book contributor The Library of Congress
Collection library_of_congress; americana
Scanfactors 9
p439
“Founders: William Vaughan, Thomas Baker, James Clarke, Jeremiah Clarke, Daniel Wightman, John Odlin, Jeremiah Peckham, John Rhodes, James Brown, JOhn Hammet, William Rhodes, Daniel Sabear, William Greenman (Benedict’s History)”