PUBLICATIONSOFPRESTON AND ROUNDS,PROVIDENCE, R. I.
PUBLICATIONSOFPRESTON AND ROUNDS,PROVIDENCE, R. I.
PUBLICATIONS
OF
PRESTON AND ROUNDS,
PROVIDENCE, R. I.
History of the State of Rhode Islandand Providence Plantations,1636-1790.
History of the State of Rhode Islandand Providence Plantations,1636-1790.
History of the State of Rhode Island
and Providence Plantations,
1636-1790.
By SAMUEL GREENE ARNOLD.New Edition. 2 vols. Octavo. 574 and 600 pp. $7.50, net.
By SAMUEL GREENE ARNOLD.New Edition. 2 vols. Octavo. 574 and 600 pp. $7.50, net.
By SAMUEL GREENE ARNOLD.
New Edition. 2 vols. Octavo. 574 and 600 pp. $7.50, net.
Governor Arnold’s History of Rhode Island, based upon a careful study of documents in the British State Paper Office and in the Rhode Island State Archives, supplemented by investigations at Paris and The Hague, has from its publication been the authoritative history of the State.
Genealogical students will find in these volumes the names of over fifteen hundred persons prominent in Rhode Island affairs. This work is of much more than local interest, as the experiment of religious liberty here tried gives to this history an importance far beyond the narrow limits of the State.
“One of the best State histories ever written is S. G. Arnold’s History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.”—John Fiske.
“The best history of Rhode Island is that of Arnold.”—Prof. George P. Fisher, Yale University.
“Mr. Samuel Greene Arnold in his history of Rhode Island has brought together all the extant materials. He brings out more clearly than any previous writer the distinct threads of the previous settlements.”—Prof. John A. Doyle, Oxford.
“A work prepared after long and careful research. Probably no student has ever made himself more familiar with the history of Rhode Island than did Arnold. This work abounds, therefore, in valuable information.”—Pres. Charles Kendall Adams, Cornell University.
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Among Rhode Island WildFlowers.
Among Rhode Island WildFlowers.
Among Rhode Island Wild
Flowers.
By W. WHITMAN BAILEY,Professor of Botany, Brown University.Cloth. 16mo. Three full-page Illustrations. 75 cents, net.
By W. WHITMAN BAILEY,Professor of Botany, Brown University.Cloth. 16mo. Three full-page Illustrations. 75 cents, net.
By W. WHITMAN BAILEY,
Professor of Botany, Brown University.
Cloth. 16mo. Three full-page Illustrations. 75 cents, net.
This admirable little volume, the outgrowth of the author’s ripe experience in teaching and in botanizing, contains a popular and interesting account of Rhode Island wild flowers as distributed throughout the State. The favorite collecting grounds are fully described, thus forming a botanical guide to Rhode Island.
In writing this volume Professor Bailey has had in mind the needs of the nature lover, and has discarded technical terms as far as possible, adapting the work to the amateur as well as the botanist.
It should be in the hands of every lover of woodland and meadow.
Forwarded postpaid to any address upon receipt of price by the publishers.
Tax Lists of the Town of Providence
Tax Lists of the Town of Providence
Tax Lists of the Town of Providence
During the Administration of Sir Edmund Androsand his Council,1686-1689.Compiled by EDWARD FIELD, A.B.,Member of the Rhode Island Historical Society, and one of theRecord Commissioners of the City of Providence.Cloth. Octavo. 60 pp. $1.00, net.
During the Administration of Sir Edmund Androsand his Council,1686-1689.Compiled by EDWARD FIELD, A.B.,Member of the Rhode Island Historical Society, and one of theRecord Commissioners of the City of Providence.Cloth. Octavo. 60 pp. $1.00, net.
During the Administration of Sir Edmund Andros
and his Council,
1686-1689.
Compiled by EDWARD FIELD, A.B.,
Member of the Rhode Island Historical Society, and one of the
Record Commissioners of the City of Providence.
Cloth. Octavo. 60 pp. $1.00, net.
The “Tax Lists of the Town of Providence” is a compilation of original documents relating to taxation during the Administration ofSir Edmund Andros and his Council, 1686-1689. It comprises copies of warrants issued by order of the Council for the assessment and collection of taxes, the tax lists or rate bills prepared pursuant to these warrants, the returns made by the townsmen of their ratable property, and the Tax Laws enacted by Andros and his Council. All of these, with the exception of the laws, are here printed for the first time.
Among the rate bills is the list of polls for 1688, which contains thenames of all males sixteen years of age and upwards living in Providence in August of that year; practically a census of the town. For the genealogist and historian this volume contains material of the greatest value on account of the great number of names which these lists contain, besides showing the amount of the tax assessment in each case.
The returns of ratable property form a study by themselves, for they tell in the quaint language of the colonists what they possess, and therefore shed much light on the condition of the times. For a study of this episode in New England Colonial History this work is invaluable.
The index of all names contained in the lists and text is a feature of this work.
The edition is limited totwo hundred and fiftynumbered copies.
Sent postpaid to any address on receipt of one dollar.
Early Rhode Island Houses.
Early Rhode Island Houses.
Early Rhode Island Houses.
An Historical and Architectural Study byNorman M. Isham, Instructor in Architecture, Brown University, andAlbert F. Brown, Architect. Illustrated with a map and over fifty full-page plates. $3.50, net.
No feature in the study of the early life of New England is more valuable or more interesting than the architecture. Nothing throws more light on the home life of the colonists than the knowledge of how they planned and built their dwellings.
Early Rhode Island Housesgives a clear and accurate account of the early buildings and methods of construction, showing the historical development of architecture among the Rhode Island colonists, the striking individuality in the work of the colony and the wide difference between the buildings here and the contemporary dwelling in Massachusetts and Connecticut.
Those interested in colonial life may here look into the early homes of Rhode Island with their cavernous fireplaces and enormous beams. The student will find in these old examples a valuable commentary on New England history, while the architect will discover in the measurements and analyses of construction much of professional interest.
Among the houses described are the Smith Garrison House and the homesteads of the families of Fenner, Olney, Field, Crawford, Waterman, Mowry, Arnold, Whipple, and Manton.
A chapter is devoted to the early houses of Newport, which were unlike those of the northern part of the State and resemble the old work in the Hartford colony.
Photographs and measurements of the dwellings have been made, and from them careful plans, sections, and restorations have been drawn; in some cases six full-page plates admirably drawn and interesting in themselves have been devoted to a single house. Several large plates give illustrations of framing and other details. It is to be noted that these plates are made from measured drawings, that the measurements are given on the plates, and that these constitute in most if not all cases the only exact records for a class of buildings which is destined to disappear at no distant day. It is believed that these drawings, and especially the restorations, will give a clearer idea than has ever before been obtained of the early New England house. A map enables the reader to locate without difficulty the houses mentioned in the text.
The authors have discussed the historical relation of Rhode Island work to contemporary building in the other New England colonies and in the mother country. The book is a mine of authentic information on this subject.
A list of the houses in the State built before 1725, so far as they are known, with dates and a brief description will be found in the appendix.
“This book is probably the most valuable historic architectural treatise that has as yet appeared in America.”—The Nation.
THE EAST INDIA TRADEOF PROVIDENCE,From 1787 to 1807.
THE EAST INDIA TRADEOF PROVIDENCE,From 1787 to 1807.
THE EAST INDIA TRADE
OF PROVIDENCE,
From 1787 to 1807.
BY GERTRUDE SELWYN KIMBALL.
BY GERTRUDE SELWYN KIMBALL.
BY GERTRUDE SELWYN KIMBALL.
By a careful study of log books and commercial papers of the old shipping firms, the author is enabled to present an interesting picture of the East India Trade of Providence in its palmy days.
8vo. 34 pages, paper, 50 cents net.
Sent postpaid on receipt of price.
THE MAGAZINE....OF....NEW ENGLAND HISTORY.FOR 1891, 1892, 1893.
THE MAGAZINE....OF....NEW ENGLAND HISTORY.FOR 1891, 1892, 1893.
THE MAGAZINE
....OF....
NEW ENGLAND HISTORY.
FOR 1891, 1892, 1893.
Having purchased the few remaining complete sets of the Magazine of New England History, originally published at $6.00, we offer the three volumes in parts as issued for $2.50 net per set or bound in one volume, cloth, for $3.50 net.
These volumes contain nearly eight hundred pages of information relating to New England local, church and family history, including records, genealogies, journals, letters and many interesting notes and queries.
WHAT CHEER—OR—ROGER WILLIAMS IN BANISHMENT.A Poem by JOB DURFEE.Revised and edited byThomas Durfee.Cloth, Leather Label, 12 mo., 225 pages.Price $1.25 net.
WHAT CHEER—OR—ROGER WILLIAMS IN BANISHMENT.A Poem by JOB DURFEE.Revised and edited byThomas Durfee.Cloth, Leather Label, 12 mo., 225 pages.Price $1.25 net.
WHAT CHEER
—OR—
ROGER WILLIAMS IN BANISHMENT.
A Poem by JOB DURFEE.
Revised and edited byThomas Durfee.
Cloth, Leather Label, 12 mo., 225 pages.Price $1.25 net.
Topographical AtlasOF THESTATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS.
Topographical AtlasOF THESTATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS.
Topographical Atlas
OF THE
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS.
By the United States Geological Survey, in co-operationwith the State.
By the United States Geological Survey, in co-operationwith the State.
By the United States Geological Survey, in co-operation
with the State.
Having secured the remaining copies of this Atlas we offer them at the following reduced prices.
A few bound in half morocco remain and can be furnished for $3.50.
The plates of this Atlas were engraved upon copper in the highest style of cartographic engraving by the United States Government and furnished to the State. From these plates transfers were made to stone and the maps printed in four colors, viz: The names, roads, railroads and other culture features are inblack. Rivers, ponds, swamps and other water features are inblue. Contour lines and figures denoting elevation are inbrown. State, county and town boundaries are inpinkover the more exact boundaries in black or blue.
Besides showing all bodies of water and watercourses, common roads or highways and railroads, it has one feature distinct from and superior to any map of the State hitherto published, viz: Contour lines, drawn for each 20 feet of elevation above mean sea level. Figures are placed upon the heavier contour lines which denote elevations of 100 feet, 200 feet, etc., above mean sea level, also upon hills and bodies of water to denote their elevation. A contour line indicating 20 feet depth of waterbelowmean sea level is drawn along the coast. In a few cases figures are given to indicate depths of water of less than 20 feet.
This Atlas includes 12 maps and 10 pages index and statistics in all 22 sheets 21×16½. The scale of the survey is 1/62500 or one mile to an inch.
MARY DYEROF RHODE ISLAND,The Quaker Martyr that was Hanged on BostonCommon, June 1, 1660.
MARY DYEROF RHODE ISLAND,The Quaker Martyr that was Hanged on BostonCommon, June 1, 1660.
MARY DYER
OF RHODE ISLAND,
The Quaker Martyr that was Hanged on Boston
Common, June 1, 1660.
ByHORATIO ROGERS,Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island.
ByHORATIO ROGERS,Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island.
ByHORATIO ROGERS,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island.
The author has gathered from many sources the scattered facts relating to the career of Mary Dyer and woven them into a detailed narrative, so that the tragic story of her life is now for the first time adequately told. By adding a brief but comprehensive sketch of the manner and sentiments of her times he has furnished a background or framework for his subject which adds much to the interest of the volume by enabling the reader the better to understand the surroundings of the characters he portrays. The important documents relating to her trial are printed in the appendix.
Cloth, 12mo., 115 pages. Price $1.00 net.
Sent postpaid upon receipt of price by the publishers.
A Summer Visit of Three Rhode Islandersto the Massachusetts Bay in 1651.
A Summer Visit of Three Rhode Islandersto the Massachusetts Bay in 1651.
A Summer Visit of Three Rhode Islanders
to the Massachusetts Bay in 1651.
ByHENRY MELVILLE KING,Pastor of the First Baptist Church, Providence, R. I.
ByHENRY MELVILLE KING,Pastor of the First Baptist Church, Providence, R. I.
ByHENRY MELVILLE KING,
Pastor of the First Baptist Church, Providence, R. I.
Cloth, 12mo., 115 pages. Price $1.00 net.
Cloth, 12mo., 115 pages. Price $1.00 net.
Cloth, 12mo., 115 pages. Price $1.00 net.
Uniform with “Mary Dyer.”
An account of the visit of Dr. John Clarke, Obadiah Holmes and John Crandall, members of the Baptist Church in Newport, R. I., to William Witter of Swampscott, Mass., in July, 1651: its innocent purpose and its painful consequences.
“Dr. King’s pungent and conclusive essay is a timely contribution. He adduces competent evidence refuting the gratuitous insinuations of Palfrey and Dexter, who charged the Rhode Islanders in question with sinister political motives and excused their alleged maltreatment on that ground. Citations from original documents, with a bibliography, put the reader in position to verify the allegations of the author.”—The Watchman.
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Revolutionary Defences in Rhode Island.
Revolutionary Defences in Rhode Island.
Revolutionary Defences in Rhode Island.
An Historical Account of the Fortifications and Beacons erected during the American Revolution, with Muster Rolls of the Companies stationed along the Shores of Narragansett Bay, with Maps, Plans and Illustrations.
ByEDWARD FIELD.Past President of the Rhode Island Societyof the Sons of the American Revolution.
ByEDWARD FIELD.Past President of the Rhode Island Societyof the Sons of the American Revolution.
ByEDWARD FIELD.
Past President of the Rhode Island Society
of the Sons of the American Revolution.
Cloth octavo, with 29 Illustrations and Two Maps.Price $2.25 net.
Cloth octavo, with 29 Illustrations and Two Maps.Price $2.25 net.
Cloth octavo, with 29 Illustrations and Two Maps.
Price $2.25 net.
This volume contains an account of the various works of defence erected in the State of Rhode Island during the Revolutionary War, showing where and under what circumstances they were built, and the names of the officers and enlisted men located at many of them at various periods of the war.
For nearly three years the British Army was located within the State and one of the notable battles was fought within its territory. The war map of this battle of Rhode Island, now preserved in the State archives, has been especially reproduced for this work, and is shown in its entirety for the first time.
The work is profusely illustrated with plans and views of these old earthworks, together with illustrations of the styles of equipments and fac-similes of enlistment papers for the Continental Army. A Map of the State of Rhode Island is inserted showing the location of each fort, beacon, and coast guard station described in the text.
Muster rolls and company lists containing the names of more than seven hundred officers and enlisted men, many of which have been hitherto inaccessible, are here presented. The records of Rhode Island Soldiers in the War of the Revolution are scattered and incomplete, and the names contained in this book will be of great assistance to those who desire to ascertain the service of Rhode Island Soldiers, or to establish their right to membership in the hereditary patriotic societies, for the names have been carefully transcribed and reference is given in each case where the original muster or pay roll may be found.
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NEW ENGLAND WILD FLOWERSAND THEIR SEASONS.
NEW ENGLAND WILD FLOWERSAND THEIR SEASONS.
NEW ENGLAND WILD FLOWERS
AND THEIR SEASONS.
ByW. WHITMAN BAILEY,PROFESSOR OF BOTANY IN BROWN UNIVERSITY.
ByW. WHITMAN BAILEY,PROFESSOR OF BOTANY IN BROWN UNIVERSITY.
ByW. WHITMAN BAILEY,
PROFESSOR OF BOTANY IN BROWN UNIVERSITY.
Cloth, 16mo. Uniform with “Rhode Island WildFlowers.” 75 cents net.
Cloth, 16mo. Uniform with “Rhode Island WildFlowers.” 75 cents net.
Cloth, 16mo. Uniform with “Rhode Island Wild
Flowers.” 75 cents net.
From long wanderings afield the author has caught the charm of the varying moods of our New England year, and pictures them for the reader with sympathetic touch.
The characteristics of the conspicuous and dominant flowers of the months are sketched in broad lines rendering identification easy.
The flowers of the White and Green Mountains—our alpine flora—receive separate treatment, as do also the flowers of the sea-shore—our coast flora.
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