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• Barrington (R.I. : Town) -- Biography
• Central Falls Region (R.I.) -- Biography
• Kent County (R.I.) -- Biography
• Newport (R.I.) -- Biography
• Olneyville (R.I.) -- Biography
• Pawtucket Region (R.I.) -- Biography
• Providence (R.I.) -- Biography
• Providence County (R.I.) -- Biography
• Washington County (R.I.) -- Biography
• African American Baptists -- Rhode Island -- Biography
• African American clergy -- Rhode Island -- Newport -- Biography
• African Americans -- Rhode Island -- Biography
• Baptists -- Rhode Island -- Clergy -- Biography
• Bishops -- Rhode Island -- Biography
• College students -- Rhode Island -- Providence -- Biography
• Governors -- Rhode Island -- Biography
• Lawyers -- Rhode Island -- Biography
• Quaker women -- Rhode Island -- Nantucket -- Biography
• Quakers -- Rhode Island -- Biography
• Recluses -- Rhode Island -- Biography
• Society of Friends -- Rhode Island -- Nantucket -- Biography
• Women abolitionists -- Rhode Island -- Biography
• Women clergy -- Rhode Island -- Biography
• Women correctional personnel -- Rhode Island -- Pawtucket -- Biography

• These Plantations (Providence, RI: E. A. Johnson Co., c1937), by J. Earl Clauson, contrib. by Sevellon Brown, illust. by Milton R. Halladay and Paule S. Loring (page images at HathiTrust)
• The History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (5 volumes; New York: American Historical Society, 1920), by Thomas Williams Bicknell
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Biographical volume (beginning with Lister): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Biographical volume (beginning with Brown): multiple formats at archive.org
• The Providence oath of allegiance and its signers, 1651-2. (The Rumford press], 1943), by Richard LeBaron Bowen, Gregory Dexter, and Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (page images at HathiTrust)
• The medical school formerly existing in Brown university, its professors and graduates. (S. S. Rider, 1881), by Charles W. Parsons (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and recollections of John Howland, late president of the Rhode Island historical society. (G.H. Whitney, 1857), by Edwin Martin Stone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of the Rhode Island bar. (T.H. Webb & co., 1842), by Wilkins Updike (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (The American Historical Society, 1920), by Thomas Williams Bicknell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Legislative history and souvenir of Rhode Island 1899 and 1900 (E. L. Freeman & Sons, State Printers, 1900), by William Harrison Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of Rhode Island officers who were engaged in the service of their country during the great rebellion of the South. Illustrated with thirty-four portraits. (S.S. Rider & brother, 1867), by John Russell Bartlett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Biographical cyclopedia of representative men of Rhode Island. (National biographical publishing co., 1881), by pub National biographical publishing co. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographical history of the manufacturers and business men of Rhode Island, at the opening of the twentieth century. (J. D. Hall & co., 1901), by Joseph D Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Second Rhode Island volunteers at the siege of Petersburg, Virginia (The Society, 1915), by Elisha Hunt Rhodes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Representative men and old families of Rhode Island; genealogical records and historical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and of many of the old families ... (J.H. Beers & co., 1908), by J.H. Beers & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Biographical cyclopedia of representative men of Rhode Island. (National biographical publishing co., 1881), by National biographical publishing co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spirit of '76 in Rhode Island: or, Sketches of the efforts of the government and people in the war of the revolution. Together with the names of those who belonged to Rhode Island regiments in the army. With biographical notices, reminiscences, etc., etc. (A. J. Wright, printer, 1850), by Benjamin Cowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discourse occasioned by the death of Rev. Zalmon Tobey, Sept. 17th, 1858. (Providence, 1859), by Henry Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations (New England Magazine, 1896), by William F. Blanding, Alfred M. Williams, and Richard Herndon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Necrology. (Printed for the Society, in the 20th century), by Rhode Island Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographical encyclopaedia of Connecticut and Rhode Island of the nineteenth century. (Metropolitan Pub. and Engraving Co., 1881), by H. Clay Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographical encyclopaedia of Connecticut and Rhode Island of the nineteenth century. (Metropolitan Pub. and Engraving Co., 1879), by H. Clay Williams and Metropolitan Publishing and Engraving Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (American Historical Society, 1920), by Thomas Williams Bicknell (page images at HathiTrust)

• A history of Barrington, Rhode Island (Snow & Farnham, printers, 1898), by Thomas Williams Bicknell (page images at HathiTrust)

• An illustrated history of Pawtucket, Central Falls, and vicinity : a narrative of the growth and evolution of the community (Pawtucket Gazette and Chronicle, 1897), by Robert Grieve (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of Washington and Kent counties, Rhode Island, including their early settlement and progress to the present time; a description of their historic and interesting localities; sketches of their towns and villages; portraits of some of their prominent men, and biographies of many of their representative citizens. (W. W. Preston & Co., 1889), by J. R. Cole (page images at HathiTrust)

• Early religious leaders of Newport; eight addresses delivered before the Newport Historical Society, 1917. (The Newport Historical Society, 1918), by Newport Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)

• Saint Indefatigable. A sketch of the life of Amarancy Paine Sarle (D. Lothrop and Company, 1883), by Wm. F. Davis and Sarah J. Eddy (page images at HathiTrust)

• An illustrated history of Pawtucket, Central Falls, and vicinity : a narrative of the growth and evolution of the community (Pawtucket Gazette and Chronicle, 1897), by Robert Grieve (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ships and shipmasters of old Providence (Providence, R.I., 1919), by R.I.) Providence Institution for Savings (Providence and Mass.) Walton Advertising and Printing Company (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of Rhode Island and ye Providence Plantations. ([Washington, 1905), by Isaac Pitman Noyes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of Rhode Island and ye Providence Plantations. ([Washington, 1905), by Isaac Pitman Noyes (page images at HathiTrust)
• An eulogy on Mr. Samuel Smith Adams : member of the senior class of Brown University, who died February 6th, 1812, aetat. 22 years : pronounced in the University Chapel, April 18, 1812 (Jones & Wheeler, Printers, 1812), by Isaac Fisk, Jones and Wheeler, and Brown University. Chapel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mechanics festival. (Knowles, Anthony & co., printers, 1860), by Providence Providence association of mechanics and manufacturers, John Howland, Isaac Greenwood, and Edwin Martin Stone (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of Providence County, Rhode Island. (W. W. Preston, 1891), by Richard M. Bayles (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of Washington and Kent counties, Rhode Island, including their early settlement and progress to the present time; a description of their historic and interesting localities; sketches of their towns and villages; portraits of some of their prominent men, and biographies of many of their representative citizens. (W. W. Preston & Co., 1889), by J. R. Cole (page images at HathiTrust)

• William J. Brown (Angell & Co., printers, 1883), by William J. Brown and Angell & Co (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pastor Henry N. Jeter's Twenty-Five Years Experience with the Shiloh Baptist Church and Her History (Providence, RI: Remington Printing Co, 1901), by Henry N. Jeter (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge (Providence, RI: B.T. Albro, 1838), by Frances H. Green and Elleanor Eldridge (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life and Adventures of Robert, the Hermit of Massachusetts (Providence: Printed for H. Trumbull, 1829), by Henry Trumbull and Robert Voorhis (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Life of George Henry; Together with a Brief History of the Colored People in America (Providence, RI: H.I. Gould, 1894), by George Henry (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge (B.T. Albro, printer, 1838), by Elleanor Eldridge and B. T. Albro (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and adventures of Robert Voorhis, the hermit of Massachusetts, who has lived 14 years in a cave, secluded from human society : comprising, an account of his birth, parentage, sufferings, and providential escape from unjust and cruel bondage in early life, and his reasons for becoming a recluse (Printed for H. Trumbull, 1829), by Henry Trumbull, Robert Voorhis, and Sylvester S. Southworth (page images at HathiTrust)

• Discourse occasioned by the death of Rev. Zalmon Tobey, Sept. 17th, 1858. (Providence, 1859), by Henry Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reminiscences (Thomas Whittaker, 1895), by Thomas M. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences (T. Whittaker, 1895), by Thomas M. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)

• An eulogy on Mr. Samuel Smith Adams : member of the senior class of Brown University, who died February 6th, 1812, aetat. 22 years : pronounced in the University Chapel, April 18, 1812 (Jones & Wheeler, Printers, 1812), by Isaac Fisk, Jones and Wheeler, and Brown University. Chapel (page images at HathiTrust)

• William Coddington of Rhode Island, a sketch (Priv. print., 1941), by Emily Coddington Williams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The life and services of Governor Samuel Ward, of Rhode Island, a member of the Continental Congress in 1774, 1775, and 1776 (s.n.], 1877), by John Ward (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reminiscences of the Rhode Island bar (Tibbitts & Preston, 1885), by Abraham Payne (page images at HathiTrust)

• A short account of the early part of the life of Mary Mitchell, late of Nantucket, deceased, (Printed for Abraham Shearman, 1812), by Mary Mitchell and Abraham Shearman (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of Jemima Wilkinson, a preacheress of the eighteenth century; containing an authentic narrative of her life and character, and of the rise, progress and conclusion of her ministry. (Printed by S. P. Hull, 1821), by David Hudson and Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Life and Adventures of Robert, the Hermit of Massachusetts (Providence: Printed for H. Trumbull, 1829), by Henry Trumbull and Robert Voorhis (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Life and adventures of Robert Voorhis, the hermit of Massachusetts, who has lived 14 years in a cave, secluded from human society : comprising, an account of his birth, parentage, sufferings, and providential escape from unjust and cruel bondage in early life, and his reasons for becoming a recluse (Printed for H. Trumbull, 1829), by Henry Trumbull, Robert Voorhis, and Sylvester S. Southworth (page images at HathiTrust)

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