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• Newport (R.I.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
• Shiloh Baptist Church (Newport, R.I.) -- History

• A Reminiscence of Newport Before and During the Revolutionary War (Newport, RI: Milne Printery, 1906), by E. B. Lyman
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• Re-union of the sons and daughters of Newport, R. I., August 23, 1859. (Newport, R.I., 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)
• History of Rhode Island. (New York, J. S. Taylor, 1853), by Edward Peterson (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• 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)

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• Oldport Days (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Co., 1873), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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• Oldport Days (Boston: Lee and Shepard: New York: C. T. Dillingham, 1888), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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• A guide to Newport, Rhode Island. (Newport, New York, G. Weis, [c1916]), by Gabriel Weis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A hand-book of Newport, and Rhode Island. (Newport, R.I.,C. E. Hammett, jr., 1852), by John Dix (page images at HathiTrust)
• Newport. ([Portland, Me., c1912]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Newport, R.I. (Portland, Me., L. H. Nelson company, c1907) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Newport household directory. Containing a complete street directory, giving the location of each street ... (Providence, Sanford publishing co.; Newport, C. E. Hammett jr., c1887) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Scenic views of Newport. (Fall River, Mass., E.P. Charlton, [190-?]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seventy-five photographic views of Newport, Rhode Island. Reproduced from the latest photographs. (Boston, Mass., J.F. Murphy, c1903) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Views of Newport, R.I. ([Newport, R.I., 1905]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lee's guide to Newport, the ocean city... (New York, H. Lee, [1884]), by Henry Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ruined mill, or round church of the Norsemen, at Newport, Rhode Island, U. S. A., compared with the round church at Cambridge and others in Europe, by F. J. Allen. ([Cambridge, Eng.], 1921), by Frank James Allen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Haut ton Newport, per se ... A complete encyclopædia and guide to all the principal points of interest ... (Providence, Frazier & Whiting, c1884), by William Tucker Washburn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gazette françoise; (Providence, Rhode Island historical society, 1926), by Rhode Island Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)

• In and around Newport. 1891. A guide to the place showing where and how to see the most, in a short time ... ([Providence, Press of the Ryder & Dearth co., 1891]), by Clarence Stanhope (page images at HathiTrust)
• Newport; a sketch ... ([Newport] Newport progress committee, c1904) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Newport illustrated, in a series of pen & pencil sketches. (Newport, R.I., C. E. Hammett, Jr., [1854]), by George C. Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
• Newport illustrated, in a series of pen & pencil sketches. (Newport, R.I., C. E. Hammett, jr., [c1875]), by George Champlin Mason (page images at HathiTrust)

• Malbone: An Oldport Romance, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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• The Minister's Wooing (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1896), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at MOA)
• The Minister's Wooing (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at MOA)
• A Strange, Sad Comedy, by Molly Elliot Seawell (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Ivory Tower, by Henry James, contrib. by Percy Lubbock (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mrs. Pendleton's Four-in-hand, by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Minister's Wooing, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, illust. by Hablot Knight Browne (Gutenberg ebook)
• Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport, by Lawrence Perry, illust. by J. V. McFall (Gutenberg ebook)

• Tom Newcombe; Or, the Boy of Bad Habits, by Harry Castlemon (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Automobile Girls at Newport; Or, Watching the Summer Parade, by Laura Dent Crane (Gutenberg ebook)
• No Moss; Or, The Career of a Rolling Stone, by Harry Castlemon (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Newport Gazette (partial serial archives)

• A Reminiscence of Newport Before and During the Revolutionary War (Newport, RI: Milne Printery, 1906), by E. B. Lyman
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  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Early recollections of Newport, R. I., from the year 1793 to 1811. (Newport, R. I., A. J. Ward, C. E. Hammett, jr.;, 1868), by George G. Channing (page images at HathiTrust)

• An historical discourse, delivered in the Central Baptist Meeting House, Newport, R. I. January 8th, 1854 / (Newport, R.I. : Published by order of the church, Cranston & Norman, 1854), by Henry Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Supplement to the Antiquitates americanæ, (Copenhagen, At the secretary's office of the Society, 1841), by Carl Christian Rafn, John M'Caul, Thomas Hopkins Webb, and Kongelige Nordiske oldskriftselskab (Denmark) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Did the Norsemen erect the Newport Round Tower / ([Cedar Rapids, Ia. : The Torch Press, 1911]), by Barthinius L. Wick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The controversy touching the old stone mill, in the town of Newport, Rhode-Island. : With remarks, introductory and conclusive. (Newport : C. E. Hammett, Jr., 1851), by Charles T. Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)

• Inauguration of the Parry statue, September 10, A. D. 1885, with the addresses of William P. Sheffield, and the remarks in receiving the statute by Governor Wetmore and Mayor Franklin, with the speeches at the dinner, of the governor, mayor, Hon. George Bancroft, Justices Blatchford and Durfee, Admirals Rodgers, Almy and Luce, the letter of Col. William H. Potter, etc. (Newport, R. I. : J. P. Sanborn, 1885), by William P. Sheffield (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annual report of the Public School Department of the city of Newport, Rhode Island. ([Newport, R.I.] : Mercury Pub. Co., [1902-1916]), by Newport (R.I.). Public School Committee and Newport (R.I.). Superintendent of Public Schools (page images at HathiTrust)

• A sermon, preached November 26, 1829, being the day of Thanksgiving : containing a history of the origin and growth of the Second Baptist church in Newport, (R.I.) / (Providence : H. H. Brown, 1830), by John Overton Choules (page images at HathiTrust)

• Expressing the sense of Congress that the George Washington letter to Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, which is on display at the B'nai B'rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, is one of the most significant early statements buttressing the nascent American constitutional guarantee of religious freedom : report (to accompany H. Con. Res. 62). ([Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O., 2001]), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the Jews of Newport; two and a half centuries of Judaism, 1658-1908, (New York, Bloch publishing co., 1936), by Morris Aaron Gutstein (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annals of Trinity Church, Newport, Rhode Island. (Newport, R.I., G.C. Mason, 1890-94), by George C. Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trinity church in Newport, Rhode Island; a history of the fabric, (Boston, Printed for the subscribers [by D. B. Updike], 1936), by Norman Morrison Isham (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Lord's voice, crying to his people: in some extraordinary dispensations considered in a sermon, upon Micah VI. 9. Preached 27 d. 1 m. 1715. Occasioned by the terrible tragedies of a man barbarbously murdering his wife and her sister, and then burning his house, March 22, 1715. : Together with some account about the poor man written for the benefit of the living. / By Nathaniel Clap, M.A. Preacher of the Gospel at N. Port, R. Island. (Boston: : Printed by B. Green, sold at the booksellers shops., 1715), by Nathaniel Clap (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Sinners directed to hear & fear, and do no more so wickedly. Being an impartial account of the inhumane and barbarbous murder, committed by Jeremiah Meacham, on his wife and her sister, at Newport on Rhode-Island, March 22d. 1715. : With some account of his life, tryal, carriage before and after condemnation; his confession, prayers, and last dying words at the place of execution, which was April the 12th. 1715. : Also a sermon preached in his hearing: on Psalm LI. 17. / By Mr. Nathaniel Clap, Minister of the Gospel in Newport, Rhode-Island. (Boston, : Printed by J. Allen, for N. Boone, at the Sign of the Bible in Cornhill,, 1715), by Nathaniel Clap (HTML at Evans TCP)

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