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• Measures of defence in old Newport; a paper read before the Society at the annual meeting May 22, 1918 ([Newport, R.I., 1918), by Maud Lyman Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)

• Documentary history of Rhode Island (Preston and Rounds co., 1916), by Howard M. Chapin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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• A Reminiscence of Newport Before and During the Revolutionary War (Newport, RI: Milne Printery, 1906), by E. B. Lyman
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• The siege of Newport, August, 1778 (The Newport historical publishing co., 1884), by Thomas C. Amory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical address, city of Newport, July 4, 1876 (J.P. Sanborn & Co., steam printers, 1876), by William P. Sheffield and Newport (R.I.). City Council (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Rhode Island. (J. S. Taylor, 1853), by Edward Peterson and Fiske Icelandic Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Visit to grand-papa; or, A week at Newport. (Taylor and Dodd, 1840), by Sarah S. Cahoone (page images at HathiTrust)
• The French in Rhode Island : Newport in the revolutionary period, 1778-1782 : the French occupation, 1780-1781 : an address delivered in Newport (Franklin Print. House, Inc., 1928), by John Austin Stevens and Mary Morris Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Newport historic guide. (D. Washburn, 1963), by Earl Washburn and Delphine Washburn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Re-union of the sons and daughters of Newport, R.I., August 23, 1859. (F.A. Pratt, City Printers, 1859), by George C. Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Rhode Island. (J. S. Taylor, 1853), by Edward Peterson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Newport, [R.I.] (C. Scribner's sons, 1896), by W. C. Brownell, Margaret Armstrong, W.S. Vanderbilt Allen, and Charles Scribner's Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of Newport and its vicinity; with notices respecting the history, settlement and geography of Rhode Island. Illustrated with engravings. (J. S. Taylor & co., 1842), by Sarah S. Cahoone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Newport: the city by the sea. Four epochs in her history. An age of shadowy tradition. An era of commercial success and social splendor. A generation of decadence. A half century of unparalleled development. (J.P. Sanborn, 1880), by Charles H. Dow (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the re-union of the sons and daughters of Newport, R.I., July 4th, 1884 (Davis & Pitman, printers, 1885), by Frank G. Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Rhode Island. (J. S. Taylor, 1853), by Edward Peterson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Re-union of the sons and daughters of Newport, R. I., August 23, 1859. (F. A. Pratt & co., city printers, 1859), by George Champlin Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
• The scope and purpose of an historical society in Newport (Newport, R.I., 1916), by William Paine Sheffield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Newport: our social capital (J.B. Lippincott, 1905), by John King Van Rensselaer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Newport history : bulletin of the Newport Historical Society. (The Society, 1964), by Newport Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of Newport. (Hammett, 1884), by George C. Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
• Privateersmen of Newport. (J. P. Sanborn, printer, 1883), by William P. Sheffield and Rhode Island Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historic spots in Newport (Mercury Pub. Co., 1914), by Edith May Tilley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Newport, 1800-1850 : a paper read before the Unity Club, Newport, R.I. (s.n., 1897), by H. E. Turner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bulletin of the Newport Historical Society. (The Society, 1912), by Newport Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bulletin of the Newport Historical Society (Newport, R.I), by Newport Newport Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Newport history : bulletin of the Newport Historical Society. (The Society, 1964), by Newport Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gazette françoise : an account of the French newspaper printed on the press of the French fleet at Newport, Rhode Island, 1780 and 1781. (Rhode Island Historical Society, 1926), by Rhode Island Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gazette françoise (Rhode Island historical society, 1926), by Rhode Island Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gazette françoise : A facsimile reprint of a newspaper, printedin Newport on the printing press of the French fleet in American waters during the Revolutionary War (Grolier Club, 1926), by Howard M. Chapin and Grolier Club (page images at HathiTrust)

• A history of the Vernon house in Newport, R.I. (Charity Organization Society, 1915), by Maud Lyman Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)

• American historical oration ([Newport?], 1929), by Benjamin Louis Antoine Hénin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Items of interest concerning Oliver Hazard Perry in Newport, and Newport in the War of 1812. (The Society, 1913), by Newport Historical Society (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)

• 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)
• 'Tis twice a hundred years : sermons on congregationalism in Newport (Daily News Job Print, 1895), by Robert W. Wallace (page images at HathiTrust)

• Laws of the Marine Society (Newport, (R.I.), 1819), by R.I.) Marine Society (Newport, John H. Barber, William Barber, Newport (R.I.), and Rhode Island (page images at HathiTrust)

• Laws of the Marine Society (Newport, (R.I.), 1819), by R.I.) Marine Society (Newport, John H. Barber, William Barber, Newport (R.I.), and Rhode Island (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)

• Commerce of Rhode Island, 1726-1800. (The Society, 1914), by Massachusetts Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Hypocricie Unmasked (London: Printed by R. Cotes and J. Bellamy, 1646), by Edward Winslow
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• Errands into the Metropolis: New England Dissidents in Revolutionary London (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, University Press of New England, c2009), by Jonathan Beecher Field (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)
• Early Rhode Island: A Social History of the People (New York: The Grafton Press, c1910), by William B. Weeden
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• Sachems of the Narragansetts (Providence: Rhode Island Historical Society, 1931), by Howard M. Chapin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story of Dr. John Clarke, the founder of the first free commonwealth of the world on the basis of "full liberty in religious concernments," (The author, 1915), by Thomas Williams Bicknell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Several purchases of the lands west of Wickford sold by the committee of the colony for the sale of the vacant lans [!] in 1709 (Printed for the society by E.L. Freeman company, 1937), by Elisha R. Potter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The case of Richard Chasmore alias Long Dick (Printed for the Society the Roger Williams press, 1944), by Bradford F. Swan (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• Samvel Gorton's letter to Lord Hyde in behalf of the Narragansett sachems. (Printed for the Society by E. L. Freeman company, 1930), by Samuel Gorton, Edward Hyde Clarendon, and Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and times of Samuel Gorton; the founders and the founding of the republic, a section of early United States history and a history of the colony of Providence and Rhode Island plantations in the Narragansett Indian country, now the state of Rhode Island, 1592-1636-1677-1687 ... ([G.S. Ferguson Co., printers], 1907), by Adelos Gorton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Samuell Gorton: a forgotten founder of our liberties; first settler of Warwick, R. I. (Preston and Rounds, 1896), by Lewis G. Janes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rhode Island; its making and its meaning; a survey of the annals of the commonwealth from its settlement to the death of Roger Williams, 1636-1683 (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1902), by Irving Berdine Richman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Roger Williams, New England firebrand. (The Macmillan company, 1932), by James Emanuel Ernst (page images at HathiTrust)
• Roger Williams the pioneer of religious liberty (Century, 1894), by Oscar S. Straus and Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• France and Rhode Island, 1686-1800 (King's crown press, 1944), by Mary Ellen Loughrey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The lands of Rhode Island : as they were known to Caunounicus and Miantunnomu when Roger Williams came in 1636 : an Indian map of the principal locations known to the Nahigansets, and elaborate historical notes (Published by the author, 1904), by Sidney S. Rider (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early Rhode Island, a social history of the people (The Grafton press, 1910), by William B. Weeden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Foot-prints of Roger Williams: a biography, with sketches of important events in early New England history, with which he was connected. (Carlton & Lanahan;, 1871), by Zachariah Atwell Mudge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Roger Williams : the founder of the state of Rhode Island (Gould and Lincoln, 1854), by William Gammell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoir of Roger Williams, the founder of the state of Rhode-Island. (Lincoln, Edmands, 1834), by James D. Knowles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Roger Williams : the pioneer of religious liberty (The Century Co., 1899), by Oscar S. Straus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Simplicity's defence against seven-headed policy. With notes explanatory of the text: and appendixes containing original documents referred to in the work. (Marshall, Brown and Company, 1835), by Samuel Gorton and William R. Staples (page images at HathiTrust)
• The early history of Narragansett; with an appendix of original documents, many of which are now for the first time published. (Marshall, Brown and Company, 1835), by Elisha R. Potter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fones record. (Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1894), by James N. Arnold and John Fones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story of Dr. John Clarke, the founder of the first free commonwealth of the world on the basis of "full liberty in religious concernments," (The author, 1915), by Thomas Williams Bicknell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peirce's colonial lists. Civil, military and professional lists of Plymouth and Rhode Island colonies, comprising colonial, county and town officers, clergymen, physicians and lawyers. With extracts from colonial laws defining their duties. 1621-1700. (A. Williams & co., 1881), by Ebenezer Weaver Peirce (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and times of Samuel Gorton : the founders and the founding of the republic, a section of early United States history and a history of the colony of Providence and Rhode Island plantations in the Narragansett Indian country, now the state of Rhode Island, 1592-1636-1677-1687; with a genealogy of Samuel Gorton's descendants to the present time (Higginson Book Co., in the 1990s), by Adelos Gorton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An historical discourse on the civil and religious affairs of the colony of Rhode-Island. (Knowles, Vose & company, 1838), by John Callender and Romeo Elton (page images at HathiTrust)
• A sermon, on the conclusion of the second century from the settlement of the state of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations (Printed by Knowles, Vose & Co., 1837), by Thomas Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• A discourse delivered at Providence, August 5, 1836, in commemoration of the first settlement of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. (B. Cranston & co., 1836), by John Pitman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Roger Williams, founder of the state of Rhode Island. (Gould, Kendall & Lincoln, 1846), by William Gammell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Settlers of Aquidneck, and liberty of conscience. Read before the Rhode Island historical society, February 1880. (Newport, R.I. Historical Publishing Co., 1880), by H. E. Turner and Rhode Island Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Harris papers (Printed for the Society, 1902), by Rhode Island Historical Society, Clarence S. Brigham, and Irving Berdine Richman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The spirit of Rhode Island history. A discourse, delivered before the Rhode-Island historical society on the evening of Monday January 17, 1853. (G. H. Whitney, 1853), by Samuel Greene Arnold and Rhode Island Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Samuell Gorton: a forgotten founder of our liberties; first settler of Warwick, R. I. (Preston and Rounds, 1896), by Lewis George Janes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and times of Samuel Gorton ([G. S. Ferguson co., printers], 1907), by Adelos Gorton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hypocrisie unmasked; a true relation of the proceedings of the governor and company of the Massachusetts against Samuel Gorton of Rhode Island (The Club for Colonial Reprints, 1916), by Edward Winslow and Howard M. Chapin (page images at HathiTrust)
• An historical discourse, on the civil and religious affairs of the colony of Rhode-Island. (T. H. Webb & company;, 1843), by John Callender, Romeo Elton, and Rhode Island Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Judge Pitman's centennial discourse (B. Cranston, 1836), by John Pitman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The famous old charter of Rhode Island, granted by King Charles II., in 1663 : also, the Rhode-Island Bill of rights, and the Declaration of religious freedom. (I.H. Cady, 1842) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The spirit of Rhode Island history. A discourse, delivered before the Rhode-Island Historical Society on the evening of Monday January 17, 1853. (G. H. Whitney, 1853), by Samuel Greene Arnold and Rhode Island Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early attempts at Rhode Island history. (Providence, 1885), by Theodore Foster, Stephen Hopkins, and William E. Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colonial Rhode Island (Automobile Journal Pub. Co., 1926), by Alice Collins Gleeson (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)
• An address delivered at the formation of the Blackstone Monument Association : together with the preliminaries, and proceedings at Study Hill, July 4, 1855 (The Association, 1855), by S. C. Newman and Blackstone Monument Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Publications of the Narragansett Club (First series) v.1-6. (Providence Press Co., printers, 1866), by R.I.) Narragansett Club (Providence (page images at HathiTrust)
• An historical discourse on the civil and religious affairs of the colony of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations in New-England in America. From the first settlement 1638, to the end of the first century. (Printed and Sold by S. Kneeland and T. Green in Queen-Street., 1739), by John Callender (page images at HathiTrust)
• Privateersmen of Newport. (J. P. Sanborn, printer, 1883), by William P. Sheffield and Rhode Island Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• A denial of the charges of forgery in connection with the Sachems' deed to Roger Williams (Standard Printing Co., 1896), by George Taylor Paine (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Tartar: the armed sloop of the colony of Rhode Island, in King George's war (Providence, 1922), by Howard M. Chapin, Rhode Island. Society of Colonial Wars, and Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canonicus memorial : services of dedication, under the auspices of the Rhode Island Historical Society, September 21, 1883. (Providence Press Co., printers, 1883), by Rhode Island Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Publications of the Narragansett Club. First series. ([s.n.], 1866), by Narragansett Club, Samuel L. Caldwell, J. Lewis Diman, Reuben Aldridge Guild, Cotton Mather, and Roger Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Appeals from colonial courts to the king in council, with especial reference to Rhode Island (Providence, 1896), by Harold D. Hazeltine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters and papers of Roger Williams 1629-1682. (Massachusetts Historical Society, 1924), by Roger Williams, Howard M. Chapin, Massachusetts Historical Society, and Rhode Island Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Publications of the Narragansett Club : (First series) ([Providence Press Co., printers], 1866), by R. I.) Narragansett Club (Providence and Roger Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Rhode Island slaver : trade book of the sloop Adventure, 1773-1774, from original manuscript in the library of George L. Shepley (Shepley Library, 1922), by Robert Champlin and Verner W. Crane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoir of Roger Williams, the Founder of the State of Rhode-Island, by James D. Knowles (Gutenberg ebook)
• Samuell Gorton: A Forgotten Founder of our Liberties; First Settler of Warwick, R. I., by Lewis G. Janes (Gutenberg ebook)
• The danger of tolerating levellers in a civil state, or, An historicall narration of the dangerous pernicious practices and opinions wherewith Samuel Gorton and his levelling accomplices so much disturbed and molested the severall plantations in New-England parallel to the positions and proceedings of the present levellers in Old-England : wherein their severall errors dangerous and very destructive to the peace both of church and state ... together with the course that was there taken for suppressing them are fully set forth, with a satisfactory answer to their complaints made to the Parliament / by Edw. Winslow of Plymouth in New-England. (London : Printed by Rich. Cotes for John Bellamy ..., 1649), by Edward Winslow (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Advertisement For as much as by His Majesty's gracious care, his immediate government is now settled, and such regulations like to be speedily made in the Narraganset Countrey or Kings-Province ... and the proprietors being desireous speedily to encourage the regular settlement of a town ... Richard Wharton, Elisha Hutchinson, John Saffin, at Boston. Dated in Boston, June 9th. 1686. ([Boston : Printed by Richard Pierce?, 1686]), by Richard Wharton, Elisha Hutchinson, and John Saffin (HTML at Evans TCP)
• An advertisement. Whereas the lands of Narrhaganset, and Niantick Countryes, and parts adjacent, are places very pleasant and fertile ... These are therefore to certifie & inform all Christian people, that are willing or may be desirous to settle themselves in a regular way of townships on the said lands, that they may please to apply themselves to the subscribers hereof in Boston ... ([Boston? : Printed by John Foster?, 1678]), by Simon Bradstreet, John Saffin, and Elisha Hutchinson (HTML at Evans TCP)
• An historical discourse on the civil and religious affairs of the Colony of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations in New-England in America. From the first settlement in 1638, to the end of the first century. / By John Callender, A.M. ; [Five lines of Scripture texts] (Boston: : Printed and sold by S. Kneeland and T. Green in Queen-Street., MDCCXXXIX. [1739]), by John Callender and William Coddington (HTML at Evans TCP)
• By His Majesties Commissioners, for Examining and Enquiring into the Claims and Titles to the Kings Province or Narraganset Countrey. ([Cambridge, Mass.? : Printed by Samuel Green?, 1683]), by for Examining and Enquiring into the Claims and Titles to the Kings Province or Narraganset Countrey England and Wales. Commissioners (HTML at Evans TCP)
• By the President and Council of His Majesties Territory and Dominion of New England in America. In pursuance of His Majestie's commands for the regulation and settlement of government in the Narraganset Countrey, or Kings-Province, Wednesday, the twenty third of this instant moneth of June, is appointed for the meeting and opening of a court ... Given at the Council-house at Boston, this 8th day of June, anno Domini 1686. ... (Boston. : Printed by Richard Pierce, printer to the Honourable His Majesty's President & Council in this his Territory and Dominion of New-England., [1686]), by Territory and Dominion of New-England. President (1686 : Dudley), Joseph Dudley, and Territory and Dominion of New England. Council (HTML at Evans TCP)

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