Identifier: historyofnewport00bayl (find matches)
Title: History of Newport County, Rhode Island. From the year 1638 to the year 1887, including the settlement of its towns, and their subsequent progress
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Bayles, Richard M. (Richard Mather), ed
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Publisher: New York, L. E. Preston & Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Dickens ;>;ort!;^ RivatrtT A .vti,i:«f phD;o i.nM.natt HISTORY OF NEWPORT COUNTY. CHAPTER I. GENERAL HISTORY OF NEWPORT COUNTY. Location and Bountlaries.—General Productions.—Scenery.—Native Plants.—GeologJ^—Causes leading to Settlement.—Purchase and Settlement.—EarlyGovernment.—Under the Royal Charter.—Under the New Charter.—Forma-tion of the County.—Population.—Important Events.—Official Men fromNewport County.—Public Schools.—Statistics. THE County of Newi:)ort i.s sUnated in the southeasternpart of the .state of Rhode Island. It has an area ofabout one hundred and seventeen square miles. It lies centrallyin latitude 41° 33 north, and longitude 71° 17 west from Green-wich, or 5° 43 east from Washington. It is bounded on thenorth and east by Bristol county, Mass., on the south by theAtlantic ocean, and on the west by Narragansett bay. It com-prises several islands, the largest of which are Rhode Island,Block Island, Conanicut and Prudence, which

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