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Rhode Island History articles, January 1942 – Fall 2007
Compiled by Hillard Beller, 2008

1942 (vol. 1)

January
"John Brown House Accepted by the Society for Its Home," by George L. Miner
"The City Seal of the City of Providence," by Bradford Fuller Swan
"Commodore Perry Opens Japan," by A[lice] V[an] H[oesen] [?]
"A Rhode Islander Goes West to Indiana," communicated by George A. White Jr.
General Washington's Correspondence concerning The Society of the Cincinnati, reviewed by S. E. Morison

April
"The Issues of the Dorr War," by John Bell Rae
"The Revolutionary Correspondence of Nathanael Greene and John Adams," by Bernhard Knollenberg
"A Rhode Islander Goes West to Indiana" (continued), communicated by George A. White Jr.
"Roger Williams: Leader of Democracy," reviewed by Clarence E. Sherman

July
"An Italian Painter Comes to Rhode Island," by Helen Nerney
"Biographical Note: Sullivan Dorr," by Howard Corning
"The Revolutionary Correspondence of Nathanael Greene and John Adams" (continued), by Bernhard Knollenberg
"Last Meeting Held at the Old Cabinet," by B[radford] F[uller[ S[wan]
"A Rhode Islander Goes West to Indiana" (continued), communicated by George A. White Jr.
"The Great Suffrage Parade," communicated by John B. Rae
"A Plymouth Friend of Roger Williams," by Bradford Fuller Swan
"The Brown Papers: The Record of a Rhode Island Business Family," by James B. Hedges, reviewed by W. G. Roelker

October
"Mrs. Vice-President Adams Dines with Mr. John Brown and Lady: Letters of Abigail Adams to Her Sister Mary Cranch," notes by Martha W. Appleton
"The Gilbert Stuart House," by Caroline Hazard
"Order of Exercises at the Celebration of the 200th
Anniversary of the Birthday of General Nathanael Greene
"The Youth of General Greene," by Theodore Francis Green
"General Nathanael Greene's Contributions to the War of American Independence," by William Greene Roelker
"A Rhode Islander Goes West to Indiana" (continued), communicated by George A. White Jr.
"Four Hundred Dollars for a Hat--When Inflation Raged in Rhode Island," by M. Randolph Flather
The Sword on the Table, by Winfield Townley Scott, reviewed by Christopher LaFarge
"The Brown Papers," by W[illiam] G[reene] R[oelker]

1943 (vol. 2)
January
"Samuel Gorton's Master Stroke," by William Greene Roelker
"The Scott Family Needle Work," by Richard LeBaron Bowen
"The Development of the Neck," by John Hutchins Cady
"Receipt for Shaving Captain Joseph Tillinghast, from John Howland"
The Newport Tower--Norse Church or Stone-Built Windmill, by Philip Ainsworth Means, reviewed by Lawrence C. Wroth
"Warwick Tercentenary (1643-1943," by W[illiam] G[reene] R[oelker]
"Role of an Historical Society in Time of War," by Kenneth B. Murdock

April
"Attacks by Algerian Pirates Create Demand for American Navy (1793-94)," by Paul Francis Gleeson
"The Scott Family Needle Work" (continued), by Richard LeBaron Bowen
"Articles of the Mutual Fire Society (1802)"
"Shepherd Tom's Grandfather," by Caroline Hazard
"The American Dream--1841 (Francis Wayland)
"Rehoboth (Mass.) Tercentenary," by W[illiam] G[reene] R[oelker]
Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants, complied by M. D. R. von Redlich, reviewed by Richard LeBaron Bowen
Jews in New England, by Samuel Broches, reviewed by William G. Braude

July
"John Brown's Katy, Afterwards Continental Armored Sloop, Providence," by George L. Miner
"Instructions to Capt. Whipple, Cmmdr of the Sloop Kary"
"The Development of the Neck" (continued), by John Hutchins Cady
"The Society's Original Manuscripts: Capt. Robert Keayne's Note Books," by Richard LeBaron Bowen
Rhode Island Colonial Money and Its Counterfeiting, by Richard LeBaron Bowen, reviewed by Donald Lines Jacobus

October
"Rhode Island Pioneers in Regulation of Banking," by John B. Rae
"John Quincy Adams Admires Mr. John Brown's House"
"The Development of the Neck" (continued), by John Hutchins Cady
"Report of War Records Subdivision, State Council of Defense," by W[illiam] G[reene] R[oelker]
A Chronicle of the Family of Edward F. Beale of Philadelphia, prepared by Maria Scott Beale Chance,
reviewed by Susanna Valentine Mitchell
"American Rooms in Miniature," by Lydia Powel
Hezekiah Anthony Dyer (1873-1943)," by W[illiam] G[reene] R[oelker]

1944 (vol. 3)
January
"The Political Consequences of the Burning of the Gaspee," by Eugene Wulsin
"The Old Town Pounds of Rhode Island," by Anne Crawford Holst
"A Painting of Roger Williams," by Bradford F. Swan
"Asa Whitney's Effort in Rhode Island to Promote a Railroad to the Pacific," communicated by John B. Rae
"Pemberton of St. Albans and the Mother of Roger Williams," by G. Andrews Moriarty
Mill Village, by Alberic A. Archambault, reviewed by George W. Gardiner
While Benefit Street Was Young, by Margaret Bingham Stillwell, reviewed by George L. Miner

April
"The Development of the Neck" (continued), by John Hutchins Cady
"References to Dubertus Articles," by Bradford F. Swan
"The Political Consequences of the Burning of the Gaspee" (concluded) by Eugene Wulsin
"Pemberton of St. Albans and the Mother of Roger Williams" (continued), by G. Andrews Moriarty

July
"Sullivan Dorr, China Trader," by Howard Corning
"Pemberton of St. Albans and the Mother of Roger Williams" (concluded), by G. Andrews Moriarty
The Providence Oath of Allegiance and Its Signers, 1651-2, by Richard LeBaron Bowen, reviewed by Arthur Adams
The Town That Saved a State, by Mary Agnes Best, reviewed by George W. Gardiner

October
"Christian Lodowick of Newport and Leipzig," by Harold S. Jantz
"The Development of the Neck" (continued), by John Hutchins Cady
"From the Log of Frederick Grinnell's Schooner Lydia," extracted by Francis H. Stone
"An Unpublished Letter of Roger Williams," by Bradford F. Swan
Winthrop Papers, vol. 3, 1631-1637, reviewed by Bradford F.Swan

1945 (vol. 4)
January
"The Constitutional Convention of 1944," by Gov, J. Howard McGrath
"Observances of the Centennial of Butler Hospital," by Paul J. Spencer
A Century of Butler Hospital, reviewed by James B. Hedges
"Christian Lodowick of Newport and Leipzig" (continued), by Harold S. Jantz

Francis Wayland, a Neglected Pioneer of Higher Education, by William G. Roelker, reviewed by Henry M. Wriston

April
"The Cable Tramway System of Providence," by Alonzo R. Williams
"The Development of the Neck" (concluded), by John Hutchins Cady
"Providence Theatricals in 1773," by S. Foster Damon
"A Pre-Revolutionary Incident," extracted by Mary T. Quinn

July
"Joseph Brown, Scientist and Architect," by J. Walter Wilson
"Moses Brown on Fire-Fighting," communicated by Robert Morton Hazelton
"James Brown's Diary, 1801-2," transcribed by Bradford F. Swan
"John Scott, Merchant," by Richard LeBaron Bowen
Local History: How to Gather It, Write It, and Publish It, by Donald Dean Parker, reviewed by William B. Hesseltine
Good-Bye, Proud World, by Margaret Emerson Bailey, reviewed by Margaret B. Stillwell
Roger Conant, a Founder of Massachusetts, by Clifford K. Shipton, reviewed by W[illiam] G[reene] R[oelker]
Ask No Quarter, by George Marsh, reviewed by B[radrord] F. S[wan]

October
"Rural Economy in Rhode Island 200 Years Ago, As Revealed in the Account Books of Benoni Waterman of Warwick, 1733-1740," by Carl R. Woodward
"The Merger of the Two Oldest Banks in Providence," by William Greene Roelker
"Joseph Brown, Scientist and Architect" (concluded), by J. Walter Wilson

1946 (vol. 5)
January
"George H. Corliss of Providence, Inventor," by Robert S. Holding
Early Rehoboth, vol. 1, by Richard LeBaron Bowen, reviewed by Clifford K. Shipton
"The Providence Plantations Canal," by William Greene Roelker
The Pageant of Benefit Street Down through the Years, by Margaret Bingham Stillwell, reviewed by George L. Miner
"The Hard Winter of 1740," memorandum in the Ward Papers, in the handwriting of William Greene

April
"The Judgment of History on American Business," by Stanley Pargellis
"What the Scholar Asks of Business," by Shepard B. Clough
"The Providence Cable Tramway," by Albert W. Claflin
"The Providence Plantations Canal" (concluded), by William Greene Roelker
"New Light on Newport Tower," by B[radrord] F. S[wan]

July
"Roger Williams and the Insane," by Bradford F. Swan
"An Appeal for the Glebe," communicated by Charles R. Haslam
"Steamship Expedition," by William King Covell
"More on the Old Stone Mill," by B[radrord] F. S[wan]
"The Relationship between the Patriotic Society and the Historical Society," by Arthur Adams
"What Every Good American Wife Should Be: A Patriot's Extimate," communicated by Sidney I. Pomerantz

October
"How Acid Factory Brook Got Its Name," by Roger Tillinghast Clapp
"The New England Governors vs. Lincoln: The Providence Conference," by William B. Hasseltine and Hazel C. Wolf
"Captain Cornelius Soule," by William Greene Roelker
Letters of Sullivan Dorr, ed Howard Corning, reviewed by James B. Hedges
"Rural Economy in Rhode Island 200 Years Ago" (concluded), by Carl R. Woodward
The First Century of the John Carter Brown Library, by Lawrence C. Wroth, reviewed by W. A. Jackson
Title Page and Index of Volumes I-V, 1942-1946

1947 (vol. 6)
January
"The Validity of Antiquarianism," by Lawrence C. Wroth
"The Quonset Hut," by Henry G. Jackson
"The Providence Cable Tramway" (concluded), by Albert W. Claflin
Early Rehoboth, vol. 2, by Richard LeBaron Bowen, reviewed by Clifford K. Shipton

April
"Robert Feke, Portrait Painter," by Henry Wilder Foote
"John Callender," by Clifford K. Shipton
"Governor Samuel Ward, Farmer and Merchant," by William Greene Roelker

July
"Documents Relating to the Ray, Greene, and Turner Families," by G. Andrews Moriarty
"Miniature Tableware," by Dorothy Needham Casey
"Roger Williams Manuscripts in the Society's Library," by Bradford F. Swan
Patterns on the River, by Mathias P. Harpin, reviewed by Susanne R. Lewis Brown

October
"The Providence Tippecanoe Club"
"James Brown's Diary (1787-1789)," transcribed and annotated by Clarkson A, Collins 3rd
"United States and Paraguay Navigation Company," by Joan Lawton
"The Newport Citizens Cup Race," by Francis H. Stone Jr.
"The British Wife of Joseph Jenks, the Patentee," by Albert Ernest Jenks

1948 (vol. 7)
January
"Newport Tower or Mill," by Kenneth J. Conant
Weybosset Bridge in Providence Planations, by Arthur E. Wilson, reviewed by Clifford K. Shipton
"James Brown's Diary (1787-1789" (continued), transcribed and annotated by Clarkson A, Collins 3rd
"The Patrol of Narragansett Bay (1773-76) by H.M.S. Rose, Captain James Wallace," extracted and transcribed by
William G. Roelker, written and annotated by Clarkson Collins 3rd
"The Providence Negro Community, 1820-1842," by Julian Rammelkamp

April
"Old Rocky Point," by Horace G. Belcher
"James Brown's Diary (1787-1789" (concluded), transcribed and annotated by Clarkson A, Collins 3rd
"Richard Bache's Letter to His Wife"

July
"The Origin of Newport Tower," by Hjalmar R. Holand
"A Key to the Problem of the Newport Tower," by Frederick J. Pohl
"Abigail Williams, Wife of Miles or Michael de Courcy of Newport, R.I.," by G. Andrews Moriarty
"The Patrol of Narragansett Bay (1773-76) by H.M.S. Rose Captain James Wallace" (continued), extracted and
transcribed by William G. Roelker, written and annotated by Clarkson Collins 3rd
Early Rehoboth, vol. 3, by Richard LeBaron Bowen, reviewed by Clifford K. Shipton
Angell's Lane: The History of a Little Street in Providence, by George Leland Miner, reviewed by Margaret B. Stillwell

October
"Rhode Island and the Australian Trade, 1792-1812," by Lloyd G. Churchward
"The Old Stone Mill, Newport," by Herbert Pell
"A Blockfront Secretary," by Mabel Munson Swan
"The Design of the John Brown House," by Norman Morrison Isham, edited by John Hutchins Cady

1949 (vol. 8)
January
"Why Rhode Island Opposed the Federal Constitution: The Continental Impost," by Hillman Metcalf Bishop
"Weybosset Bridge," by John Hutchins Cady
"D. B. Updike and the Merrymount Press," by Clarence E. Sherman

April
"Why Rhode Island Opposed the Federal Constitution: The Paper Money Era" (continued), by Hillman Metcalf Bishop
"The Patrol of Narragansett Bay (1774-76)" (continued), by William Greene Roelker

July
"First Rhode Islander in Tasmania," by Thomas Dunbabin
"The Patrol of Narragansett Bay (1774-76) by H.M.S. Rose, Captain James Wallace" (continued), extracted and transcribed by William G. Roelker; written and annotated by Clarkson A. Collins 3rd
"Why Rhode Island Opposed the Federal Constitution: Paper Money and the Constitution" (continued), by Hillman Metcalf Bishop

October
"Mr. Tambo and Mr. Bones: Rhode Island in Negro Minstrelsy," by Horace G. Belcher
"Why Rhode Island Opposed the Federal Constitution: Political Reasons" (concluded), by Hillman Metcalf Bishop
Index to the Early Records of the Town of Providence, vols. 1-21, by Richard LeBaron Bowen, reviewed by Clarence S. Brigham
A Rhode Island Chaplain in the Revolution: Letters of Ebenezer David to Nicholas Brown, 1775-1778, edited by Jeannette D. Black and William Greene Roelker, reviewed by Edmund S. Morgan

1950 (vol. 9)
January
"The Dorr Rebellion and the Federal Constitution," by Charles O. Lerche Jr. ""The Patrol of Narragansett Bay (1774-76) by H.M.S. Rose, Captain James Wallace" (continued), extracted and transcribed by William G. Roelker; written and annotated by Clarkson A. Collins 3rd
One Hundred Fifty Years of Providence Washington Insurance Company, by William Greene Roelker and Clarkson A. Collins III, reviewed by Arthur H. Cole

April
"John Smibert and Robert Feke in Newpart," by Henry Wilder Foote
"Godfrey Malbone's Armorial Silver," by Richard LeBaron Bowen
""The Patrol of Narragansett Bay (1774-76) by H.M.S. Rose, Captain James Wallace" (concluded), extracted and transcribed by William G. Roelker; written and annotated by Clarkson A. Collins 3rd
"State Song of Rhode Island," by Kenneth E. Crouch
Benjamin Franklin and Catharine Ray Greene--Their Correspondence, edited and annotated by William Greene Roelker, reviewed by Bernhard Knollenberg

July
"The Early History of Rhode Island's Court System," by John T. Farrell
"The Providence Franklin Society," by Robert J. Taylor
"Godfrey Malbone's Armorial Silver" (concluded), by Richard LeBaron Bowen
Rhode Island Imprints, 1727-1800, edited by John Eliot Alden, reviewed by R. W. G. Vail

October
"Rhode Island Imrpints and the Historical Society," by Bradford F. Swan
"The Early History of Rhode Island's Court System" (continued), by John T. Farrell
Early Rehoboth, vol. 4, by Richard LeBaron Bowen, reviewed by Clifford K. Shipton
"The Providence Franklin Society" (oncluded), by Robert J. Taylor

1951 (vol. 10)
January
"Pictures of Providence in the Past, 1790-1820: The Reminiscences of Walter R. Danforth," edited by Clarkson A. Collins 3rd
"The Early History of Rhode Island's Court System" (concluded), by John T. Farrell
The Letters of Benjamin Franklin and Jane Mecom, edited with an introduction by Carl Van Doren, and Jane Mecom, the Favorite Sister of Benjamin Franklin: Her Life Here First Fully Narrated from Their Entire Surviving Correspondence, by Carl Van Doren, reviewed by William Greene Roelker

April
"The Voyage of the Marcury," by Earl C. Tanner
"Pictures of Providence in the Past, 1790-1820: The Reminiscences of Walter R. Danforth" (continued), edited by Clarkson A. Collins 3rd
Career Women of America, by Elizabeth Anthony Dexter, reviewed by Ben C. Clough
Paddy Wilson's Meeting-house in Providence Plantations, 1791-1839: Being an Account of a Genial Irish Parson Who Shaped a Community's Culture and Life, by Arthur E. Wilson, reviewed by William J. Robbins
"John Brown's Attempt at Conciliation with the British, 1775"

July
"The Southwest Corner of the Shawomet Purchase," by Charles M. Perry
"The Voyage of the Marcury" (concluded), by Earl C. Tanner
"Pictures of Providence in the Past, 1790-1820: The Reminiscences of Walter R. Danforth" (continued), edited by Clarkson A. Collins 3rd
"A Sailor's Enigma" (a puzzle in verse)

October
"The Beavertail Lighthouse," by Susan B. Franklin
"History of Castle Hill Light Station, Newport, Rhode Island," compiled by the United States Coast Guard from data in the National Archives
"First Congregational Society Pew Holders, 1816
"Pictures of Providence in the Past, 1790-1820: The Reminiscences of Walter R. Danforth" (continued), edited by Clarkson A. Collins 3rd

1952 (vol. 11)
January
"Three Men in an Industrial Century: Jabez Gorham, John Gorham, Edward Holbrook," by Edmund C. Mayo
"First Congregational Society Pew Holders, 1816" (continued) "Pictures of Providence in the Past, 1790-1820: The Reminiscences of Walter R. Danforth" (continued), edited by Clarkson A. Collins 3rd

April
"The Luther Cases in the Lower Courts," by Mahlon H. Hellerich
"First Congregational Society Pew Holders, 1816" (continued) "Pictures of Providence in the Past, 1790-1820: The Reminiscences of Walter R. Danforth" (concluded), edited by Clarkson A. Collins 3rd
Correspondence of Governor Samuel Ward, May 1775-March 1776," edited by Bernhard Knollenberg; Genealogy of the Ward Family, compiled by Clifford P. Monahon, reviewed by Edmund S. Morgan
The Biography of a Church, by Gardiner M. Day, reviewed by W[illiam] G[reene] R[oelker]

July
"The Providence Town Papers," by Bradford F. Swan
"First Congregational Society Pew Holders, 1816" (concluded) "The Iroquois Visit Rochambeau at Newport, 1780," by Durand Echeverria
"Eleazer Arnold," by William Greene Roelker
"Herodias (Long) Hicks-Gardiner-Porter: A Tale of Old Newport," by G. Andrews Moriarty
"The Counterfeiting Venture of Abel and Samuel Chapin," by Kenneth Scott
The Architectural Heritage of Newport, Rhode Island, by Antoinette F. Downing and Vincent J. Scully Jr., reviewed by John Hutchins Cady
Who Lived Here? A Baker's Dozen of Historic New England Houses and Their Occupants, text by M. A. DeWolf Howe, photographs by Samuel Chamberlain, reviewed by W[illiam] G[reene] R[oelker]

October
"The Providence Market House and Its Neighborhood," by John Hutchins Cady
"Anarch in Rhode Island," by Abe C. Ravitz
"In Old Pawtucket," by Horace G. Belcher
The Browns of Providence Plantations: Colonial Years, by James B. Hedges, reviewed by Curtis P. Nettels

1953 (vol. 12)
January
"The Rhode Island Historical Society: An Appraisal," by Earle W. Newton
Science and Technology in Providence, 1760-1914: An Essay in the History of Brown University in the Metropolitan Community, by Donald Fleming, reviewed by Albert E. Lownes
"The Gaspee Affair: A Study of Its Constitutional Significance," by William R. Leslie, reviewed by William H. Edwards
"Two Early New England Captains of the Hudson Bay Company," by G. Andrews Moriarty
"Trouble at the Custom House--1790: Samuel Slater's Trunk"

April

"Two Rhode Island Imprints of 1727," by Bradford F. Swan

"Eighteenth Century Grenadier Caps," by Anne S. K. Brown

"Gideon Casey, Rhode Island Silversmith and Counterfeiter,"

by Kenneth Scott

"The Newport Tower Mystery," by Hjalmar R. Holand

"John Brown Bets a Hat"

July

"John Brown's Dinner Set," by Eleanore Bradford Monahon

"Notes on Two Early Rhode Island Governors," by Bertha W.

Clark (John Cranston and Caleb Carr)

"A Lost Woman Digged Out of Oblivion," by Katharine U.

Waterman

"The Newport Tower Mystery" (concluded), by Hjalmar R.

Holand

"Block Island Cemetery Records," compiled and arranged by

Helen Winslow Mansfield

October

"Rhode Island Literature," by Randall Stewart

"The Hammett Pamphlets and Their Author," by Bradford F.

Swan

"William Ellery, Signer of the Declaration of Independence,"

by Susan B. Franklin

"An Answer to the Norse Theory," by Herbert Pell

"Block Island Cemetery Records" (continued), compiled and

arranged by Helen Winslow Mansfield

1954 (vol. 13)

January

"Rhode Island Literature" (concluded), by Randall Stewart

"William Ellery, Signer of the Declaration of Independence"

(continued), by Susan B. Franklin

Roger Williams: His Contribution to the American Tradition,

by Perry Miller, reviewed by Bradford F. Swan

"Block Island Cemetery Records" (continued), compiled and

arranged by Helen Winslow Mansfield

April

"The Latin-American Trade of E. Carrington & Co., 1822," by

Earl C. Tanner

"William Ellery, Signer of the Declaration of Independence"

(continued), by Susan B. Franklin

"A Little House Worth Preserving," by John Hutchins Cady

"Block Island Cemetery Records" (continued), compiled and

arranged by Helen Winslow Mansfield

July

"Strangers: Civil Rights of Jews in the Colony of Rhode

Island," David C. Adelman

"The Latin-American Trade of E. Carrington & Co., 1822"

(concluded), by Earl C. Tanner

Economic Development and Population Growth in Rhode Island,

by Kurt B. Mayer, reviewed by William D. Metz

"Block Island Cemetery Records" (continued), compiled and

arranged by Helen Winslow Mansfield

October

"The Newport Gazette, Tory Newssheet," by Ralph Adams Brown

"Some Arnolds of Smithfield, R.I.," by H. Minot Pitman

"Block Island Cemetery Records" (continued), compiled and

arranged by Helen Winslow Mansfield

1955 (vol. 14)

January

"The Thomas Poynton Ives House," by John Hutchins Cady

"The Newport Gazette, Tory Newssheet" (concluded), by Ralph

Adams Brown

"A Query concerning the Old Stone Mill at Newport

"Block Island Cemetery Records" (continued), compiled and

arranged by Helen Winslow Mansfield

April

"Transcendentalism and ‘The Newness’ in Rhode Island, by

Charlaes R. Crowe

"Uncle Brown Grabs a Town," by David S. Lovejoy (North

Providence)

"The Ives Family and the Rhode Island Hospital," by Roland

Hammond

James Burrill Angell: An American Influence, by Shirley W.

Smithl, reviewed by Theodore R. Crane

From Slave to Citizen: The Story of the Negro in Rhode

Island, by Irving H. Bartlett, reviewed by Mary Cobb

Nelson

"Block Island Cemetery Records" (continued), compiled and

arranged by Helen Winslow Mansfield

July

"Transcendentalism and the Providence Literati," by Charles

R. Crowe

"Labor Problems in the Rhode Island Cotton Mills—-1790-

1940," by Editha Hadcock

"Block Island Cemetery Records" (concluded), compiled and

arranged by Helen Winslow Mansfield

October

"Caribbean Ports in the Foreign Commerce of Rhode Island,

1790-1830," by Earl C. Tanner

"Labor Problems in the Rhode Island Cotton Mills--1790-1940"

(concluded), by Editha Hadcock

"Catalog of the Rhode Island Historical Society Furniture

Collection," by Ralph E. Carpenter Jr.

1956 (vol. 15)

January

"Nathanael Greene's Letters to ‘Friend Sammy’ Ward," edited

by Clifford P. Monahon and Clarkson A. Collins 3rd

"Caribbean Ports in the Foreign Commerce of Rhode Island,

1790-1830" (concluded), by Earl C. Tanner

"Catalog of the Rhode Island Historical Society Furniture

Collection" (continued), by Ralph E. Carpenter Jr.

April

"A New View of the Declaration of War against the

Narragansetts, 1675," by Douglas Edward Leach

"The Education of Dr. John Clarke," by G. Andrews Moriarty

"First Australian in Rhode Island," by Thomas Dunbabin

"Nathanael Greene's Letters to ‘Friend Sammy’ Ward"

(continued), edited by Clifford P. Monahon and Clarkson

A. Collins 3rd

"Catalog of the Rhode Island Historical Society Furniture

Collection" (continued), by Ralph E. Carpenter Jr.

"Devils Foot Rock"

July

"The Samuel Snow-Sullivan Dorr Correspondence," edited by

Vincent P. Carosso and Lawrence H. Leder

Elias Boudinot's Journey to Boston in 1809, edited by Milton

Halsey Thomas, reviewed by S. Foster Damon

"Catalog of the Rhode Island Historical Society Furniture

Collection" (continued), by Ralph E. Carpenter Jr.

October

"Moses Brown's ‘Account of Journey to Distribute Donations

12th Month 1775,’" with an introduction by Mack E.

Thompson

"Catalog of the Rhode Island Historical Society Furniture

Collection" (continued), by Ralph E. Carpenter Jr.

Index to Volumes 6-15, 1947-1956

1957 (vol. 16)

January

"Burnside: A Rhode Island Hero," by Knight Edwards

"Catalog of the Rhode Island Historical Society Furniture

Collection" (continued), by Ralph E. Carpenter Jr.

April

"New Light on the Sullivan Dorr House," by Antoinette F.

Downing

"Nathanael Greene: A Biographical Sketch by a Contemporary,

John F. Roche

"Nathanael Greene's Letters to ‘Friend Sammy’ Ward"

(continued), edited by Clifford P. Monahon and Clarkson

A. Collins 3rd

"Catalog of the Rhode Island Historical Society Furniture

Collection" (continued), by Ralph E. Carpenter Jr.

July

"South American Ports in the Foreign Commerce of

Providence," 1800-1830," by Earl C. Tanner

"Nathanael Greene's Letters to ‘Friend Sammy’ Ward"

(continued), edited by Clifford P. Monahon and Clarkson

A. Collins 3rd

"Catalog of the Rhode Island Historical Society Furniture

Collection" (continued), by Ralph E. Carpenter Jr.

October

"Benjamin B. Carter, Physician Extraordinary," by Robert W.

Kenny

"The Old Original," by Leslie Allen Jones (a church's clock)

"Nathanael Greene's Letters to ‘Friend Sammy’ Ward"

(continued), edited by Clifford P. Monahon and Clarkson

A. Collins 3rd

"Catalog of the Rhode Island Historical Society Furniture

Collection" (continued), by Ralph E. Carpenter Jr.

1958 (vol. 17)

January

"Early Music in Rhode Island Churches: I. Music in the First

Congregational Church, Providence, 1770-1850," by Joyce

Ellen Mangler

"The Theatre in Rhode Island before the Revolution," by

Constance D. Sherman

"Nathanael Greene's Letters to ‘Friend Sammy’ Ward"

(concluded), edited by Clifford P. Monahon and Clarkson

A. Collins 3rd

Massachusetts Records: A Handbook for Genealogists,

Historians, Lawyers, and Other Researchers, by Richard

LeBaron Bowen, reviewed by Clifford K. Shipton

The Civic and Architectural Development of Providence, 1636-

1950, by John Hutchins Cady, reviewed by Robert N. Cook

"Catalog of the Rhode Island Historical Society Furniture

Collection" (continued), by Ralph E. Carpenter Jr.

April

"Early Music in Rhode Island Churches: II. Music in the

First Baptist Church, Providence, 1775-1834" (continued),

by William Dinneen

"The William Goddard House," by John Hutchins Cady

"The Good Ship Haidie," by Harriett Wood Weeden

July

"The Isle of Rhodes: A French Vignette," by Constance D.

Sherman

"Early Music in Rhode Island Churches: III. Music in King's

Church (St. John's), Providence, 1722-1850" (continued),

by Joyce Ellen Mangler

"A Half Sheet of Stolen Rhode Island Bills," by Kenneth

Scott

"Catalog of the Rhode Island Historical Society Furniture

Collection" (continued), by Ralph E. Carpenter Jr.

October

"The Disenchantment of Thomas W. Dorr," by Chilton

Williamson

"Early Music in Rhode Island Churches: IV. Music in

Beneficent Congregational Church and the Richmond Street

Congregational Church, 1774-1836" (continued), by William

Dinneen

The Life and Works of Edward Greene Malbone, 1777-1807, by

Ruel Pardee Tolman, with an introduction by Theodore

Bolton and a foreword by John Davis Hatch Jr., reviewed

by Bradford F. Swan

"Catalog of the Rhode Island Historical Society Furniture

Collection" (continued), by Ralph E. Carpenter Jr.

1959 (vol. 18)

January

"The Furnishings of Newport Houses, 1780-1800," by Wendell

D. Garrett

"Utopian Socialism in Rhode Island, 1845-1850," by Charles

R. Crowe

Migration and Economic Development in Rhode Island, by Kurt

B. Mayer and Sidney Goldstein; The Ecology of Providence;

Basic Social and Demographic Data by Census Tracts, by

Sidney Goldstein and Kurt B. Mayer, reviewed by William

D. Metz

A Directory of Printing, Publishing, Bookselling & Allied

Trades in Rhode Island in 1865, by H. Glenn Brown and

Maude O. Brown, reviewed by Rollo G. Silver

"A Hazard-Rhodes Connection," by Charles W. Farnham

April

"General Glover's Role in the Battle of Rhode Island," by

George A. Billias

"Away to Rhode Isdland from Their Cellars," by Douglas

Edward Leach (King Philip's War)

"Catalog of the Rhode Island Historical Society Furniture

Collection" (continued), by Ralph E. Carpenter Jr.

July

"Banjamin Bosworth Smith (1794-1884): Early New England

Clergyman," by W. Roabert Insko

"The Franklin Press"

"The Baker Family of Rehoboth, Massachusetts," by Walter M.

Baker

Rhode Island Politics and the American Revolution, 1760-

1766, David S. Lovejoy, reviewed by Richard P. McCormick

"Catalog of the Rhode Island Historical Society Furniture

Collection" (continued), by Ralph E. Carpenter Jr.

October

"A Soldier Writes His Congressman: The Civil War Letters of

Livingston Scott to Thomas A. Jenckes," by Frank F. White

Jr.

Collected Papers, Armorial, Genealogical, and Historical, by

Richard LeBaron Bowen, reviewed by G. Andrews Moriarty

"Curious Crimes in Colonial Newport Country," be Constance

D. Sherman

"A Newport Street Fight in 1768," by Kenneth Scott

"Catalog of the Rhode Island Historical Society Furniture

Collection" (continued), by Ralph E. Carpenter Jr.

1960 (vol. 19)

January

"A Tory's Claim to the Wanton Estates," by Sydney W. Jackman

"The William Harris Manuscript"

Girl with a Musket, by Florence Parker Simister, reviewed by

Virginia Fooks

"A Soldier Writes His Congressman" (concluded), by Frank F.

White Jr.

"Catalog of the Rhode Island Historical Society Furniture

Collection" (concluded), by Ralph E. Carpenter Jr.

April

"A Note on Providence Politics in the Age of Bryan," by

Elmer E. Cornwell Jr.

"Early 19th Century Providence Exports to the Caribbean," by

Earl C. Tanner

"A Tory's Claim to the Wanton Estates" (continued), by

Sydney W. Jackman

July

"Francis Wayland and the Residential College," by Theodore

R. Crane (Brown University)

"A Tory's Claim to the Wanton Estates" (concluded), by

Sydney W. Jackman

"Early 19th Century Providence Exports to Brazil," by Earl

C. Tanner

General John Glover and His Marblehead Mariners, by George

Athan Billias, reviewed by Elizabeth Harriet Drew

October

"Some Interesting Transactions in Rhode Island," by Joanne

L. Neel (American-British relations, 1795)

"Francis Wayland and the Residential College" (concluded),

by Theodore R. Crane

1961 (vol. 20)

January

"Exile or Eden? The Chilean Experience of a Rhode Island

Yankee," by Alan S. Trueblood

"A New Look at the Jireh Bull Excavation," by Eleanore

Bradford Monahom

"Carr Genealogies Corrected," by Clifford P. Monahon and

Clarkson A. Collins 3rd

April

"William Hamlin, Providence Engraver," by Eugene Van Wye

"Exile or Eden? The Chilean Experience of a Rhode Island

Yankee" (continued), by Alan S. Trueblood

"The Parentage of Capt. Simon Rhodes (1716-1784) of Newport

and Stonington," by Charles William Farnham

The History of East Greenwich, Rhode Island, 1677-1960, with

Related Genealogy, by Martha R. McPartland, reviewed by

Florence P. Simister

"Place-Knight Bible Records"

July

"Plagiarism by a Prophetess," by Herbert A. Wisbey Jr.

(Jemima Wilkinson)

"Exile or Eden? The Chilean Experience of a Rhode Island

Yankee" (concluded), by Alan S. Trueblood

"Longfellow's ‘The Jewish Cemetery at Newport,’" by Ely

Stock

"Some Occupational Patters in Party Committee Membership,"

by Elmer E. Cornwell Jr. (party ward committees in

Providence)

October

"Rhode Island Reactions to John Brown's Raid," by John

Michael Ray

"John Smith, the Miller, of Providence, Rhode Island; Some

of His Descendants," by Charles William Farnham

"Shipbuilding in Colonial Rhode Island," by W. E. Minchinton

"A Note on Gregory Dexter," by Bradford F. Swan

1962 (vol. 21)

January

"The Fate of Carrington House," by Antoinette F. Downing

"The Rhode Island Lincoln Party and the 1906 Election," by

Erwin L. Levine

"John Smith, the Miller, of Providence, Rhode Island; Some

of His Descendants" (continued), by Charles William

Farnham

Indians, Privateers, and High Society, by Bertram

Lippincott, reviewed by Leonard J. Panaggio

April

"The Providence Abolition Society," by James F. Reilly

"John Smith, the Miller, of Providence, Rhode Island; Some

of His Descendants" (continued), by Charles William

Farnham

July

"Francis Wayland: Political Economist as Educator," by

Theodore R. Crane

"Piracy in the Caribbean: A Rhode Island View," by Earl C.

Tanner

"John Smith, the Miller, of Providence, Rhode Island; Some

of His Descendants" (continued), by Charles William

Farnham

October

"Francis Wayland: Political Economist as Educator"

(concluded), by Theodore R. Crane

"John Smith, the Miller, of Providence, Rhode Island; Some

of His Descendants" (continued), by Charles William

Farnham

"Captains Carousing in Providence," by Clarkson Collins 3rd

1963 (vol. 22)

January

"Israel Angell and the West in 1788," by Dwight L. Smith

"The Edward Carrington Collection," Jacques M. Downs

"John Smith, the Miller, of Providence, Rhode Island; Some

of His Descendants" (continued), by Charles William

Farnham

Moses Brown, Reluctant Reformer, by Mack Thompson, reviewed

by William Paxton

April

"How Rhode Island Nearly Lost Reeves and the American Band,"

by Arlan R. Coolidge

"Israel Angell and the West in 1788" (concluded), by Dwight

L. Smith

"John Smith, the Miller, of Providence, Rhode Island; Some

of His Descendants" (continued), by Charles William

Farnham

William Goddard, Newspaperman, by Ward L. Miner, reviewed by

Rollo G. Silver

July

"The Middle Years of the Anthony-Brayton Alliance, or

Politics in the Post Office, 1874-1880," by Mary Nelson

Tanner

"John Smith, the Miller, of Providence, Rhode Island; Some

of His Descendants" (continued), by Charles William

Farnham

Independnet Historical Societies: An Enquiry into Their

Research and Publication Functions and Their Financial

Future, by Walter Muir Whitehill, reviewed by Frank N.

Elliott

Charles V. Chapin and the Public Health Movement, by James

H. Cassedy, reviewed by Seebert J. Goldowsky

October

"Christopher A. Greene: Rhode Island Transcendentalist," by

Leo Stoller

"The Collins-Richardson Fracas of 1787: A Problem in State

and Federal Relations during the Confederation Era," by

Irwin H. Polishook

"John Smith, the Miller, of Providence, Rhode Island; Some

of His Descendants" (continued), by Charles William

Farnham

1964 (vol. 23)

January

"Providence Cabinetmakers," by Eleanore Bradford Monahon

"John Smith, the Miller, of Providence, Rhode Island; Some

of His Descendants" (continued), by Charles William

Farnham

The Transformation of Rhode Island, 1790-1860, by Peter J.

Coleman, reviewed by Robert O. Schulze

April

"Early Music in Rhode Island: V. Oliver Shaw and the

Psallonian Society" (concluded), by Joyce Mangler Carlson

"John Smith, the Miller, of Providence, Rhode Island; Some

of His Descendants" (continued), by Charles William

Farnham

July

"Rhode Isdland Cotton Manufacturing: A Study in Economic

Conservation," by Peter J. Coleman

"The Religious History of a Christian Socialist: Joseph J.

Cook's ‘A Personal Relation,’" by Charles R. Crowe

"John Smith, the Miller, of Providence, Rhode Island; Some

of His Descendants" (continued), by Charles William

Farnham

October

"Remarks at Launching of U.S.S. Nathanael Greene (SSBN), by

Wallace M Greene Jr.

"The Know-Nothing Party in Rhode Island: Religious Bigotry

and Political Success," by Larry Anthony Rand

"John Smith, the Miller, of Providence, Rhode Island; Some

of His Descendants" (continued), by Charles William

Farnham

"California Bound on the Ship George Washington in 1849"

1965 (vol. 24)

January

"The Rhode Island Java Trade, 1799-1836," by Sharon Ahmat

"Lewis Peckham's Choice," by Clara L. Davis

"John Smith, the Miller, of Providence, Rhode Island; Some

of His Descendants" (continued), by Charles William

Farnham

April

"John Brown House Exhibition of Rhode Island Furniture, May

16-June 20, 1965," by Clifford P. Monahon

"An Inquiry into the Resignation of Quartermaster General

Nathanael Greene in 1780," by Thomas L. Wells

"A Letter from William Ellery to Henry Marchant," edited by

Clifford P. Monahon and Clarkson A. Collins 3rd

"John Smith, the Miller, of Providence, Rhode Island; Some

of His Descendants" (continued), by Charles William

Farnham

July

"Samuel Ames: The Great Chief Justice of Rhode Island," by

C. Peter Magrath

"Alexandre Berthier's Journal of the American Campaign,"

translated by Marshall Morgan

"A Question as to Buenos Ayres: Rhode Islanders in the River

Plate Slave Trade, 1806-07," by Earl C. Tanner

Winthrop's Boston: Portrait of a Puritan Town, 1630-1649, by

Darrett B. Rutman, reviewed by Joyce Ransome

"John Smith, the Miller, of Providence, Rhode Island; Some

of His Descendants" (concluded), by Charles William

Farnham

October

"The Wreck of the Bark Montgomery," transcribed by Clarkson

A. Collins 3rd, introduction by Rebecca C. Skillin

"Early 19th Century Providence Imports from the Caribbean

and Brazil," by Earl C. Tanner

1966 (vol. 25)

January

"A Study in Failure--Hon. Samuel Snow," by Jacques M. Downs

"Negro Churches in Rhode Island before 1860," by Robert

Glenn Sherer Jr.

"Early Years of the Hope Cotton Manufacturing Company," by

Herbert T. Leyland

April

"Peter Edes's Report on the Proceedings of the Rhode Island

General Assembly, 1787-1790," by Irwin H. Polishook

"An Arithmetic Workbook of 1827-1828 as a Source for Rhode

Island Social History," by Ridgway F. Shinn Jr.

"The Providence Jewish Community after 125 Years of

Development," by Sidney Goldstein

Thomas Smith Webb, Freemason, Musician, Entrepreneur, by

Herbert T. Leyland, reviewed by Harold W. Browning

July

"HMS Gaspee--The Court Martial," by Samuel W. Bryant

"Bad Luck in the China Trade" (Peter Wanton Snow), by

Jacques M. Downs

"The Parentage of William Billings, Early Pewterer of

Providence, R.I.," by Charles M. Farnham

"Olney Winsor's ‘Memorandum’ of the Great Hurricane of

September 23, 1815," by William G. McLoughlin

"Peter Edes's Report on the Proceedings of the Rhode Island

General Assembly, 1787-1790" (continued), by Irwin H.

Polishook

October

"Wilkins Updike to Sarah Helen Whitman: Two New Letters," by

Alvin Rosenfeld

"The Navy at Newport: A British View, 1864," edited with an

introduction by Frank J. Merli

"Peter Edes's Report on the Proceedings of the Rhode Island

General Assembly, 1787-1790" (continued), by Irwin H.

Polishook

1967 (vol. 26)

January

"Windmill Cottage and Longfellow," by Paul R. Ladd

"Brahmans of Washington County, R.I.," by Harold Minot

Pitman

"Peter Edes's Report on the Proceedings of the Rhode Island

General Assembly, 1787-1790" (concluded), by Irwin H.

Polishook

American Furniture, the Federal Period, in the Henry Francis

du Pont Winterthur Museum, by Charles F. Montgomery,

reviewed by Eleanore B. Monahon

April

"The Rhode Island Business Elite, 1895-1905: A Collective

Portrait," by Ian S. Haberman

"A Rhode Island Honeymoon in the Western Country,"

transcribed by Noel P. Conlon (an 1817 letter from

Zachariah Allen)

"Castiglioni's Visit to Rhode Island," translated and

annotated by Samuel Hough (from 1780s)

July

"Rhode Island Justice--1772 Vintage," by Samuel W. Bryant

"Notes from the Shelves of the Society's Library, " selected

by Noel P. Conlon

"The Dorr Rebellion in Rhode Island: The Moderate Phase," by

Robert L. Ciaburri

"Olney Winsor's ‘Memorandum’ of the Phenomenal ‘Dark Day’ of

May 19, 1780," by William G. McLoughlin

"Glocester, Rhode Island, Vital Records," by Charles W.

Fanham

October

"Lexington and Concord: Rhode Island Reacts," by Joel A.

Cohen

"‘The Publick Universal Friend" (Jemima Wilkinson), by J.

Bruce Whyte

"Party Chaos Embroils Rhode Island" (1833-35), by Philip A.

Grant Jr.

"Crew List of the Privateer Independence, 1776," by

Charles W. Farnham

1968 (vol. 27)

January

"Joseph Brown, Astronomer," by Stuart F. Crump Jr.

"‘The Publick Universal Friend" (concluded), by J. Bruce

Whyte

"Party Chaos Embroils Rhode Island" (concluded), by Philip

A. Grant Jr.

"Notes from the Shelves," selected by Noel P. Conlon

April

"Gravestones of Rhode Island," by Dickran and Ann Tashjian

"Rhode Island's Constitutional Development, 1636-1775: A

Survey," by Patrick T. Conley

June

"The College Scene in Providence, 1786-1787," transcribed

and Annotated by Noel P. Conlon, introduction and

interpolation by Clarkson A. Collins 3rd

Rhode Island's Constitutional Development, 1636-1775: A

Survey" (concluded), by Patrick T. Conley

October

"Rhode Island Loyalism and the American Revolution," by Joel

A. Cohen

"New York to Providence and Return under Sail in 1900,"

transcribed by Robert H. I. Goddard Jr.

"Rhode Island Imprints and Impressions--A Report"

"Notes from the Shelves of the Society's Library," selected

by Noel P. Conlon

1969 (vol. 28)

Winter

"Recent Discoveries among Rhode Island Cabinetmakers and

Their Work," by Joseph K. Ott

"Patience Borden and the Sterrys," by Charles W. Farnham

Spring

"Rhode Island Baptists, 1825-1931," by C. Allyn Russell

"More Notes on Rhode Island Cabinetmakers and Their Work,"

by Joseph K. Ott

"The Integrity of Nathanael Greene," by Francis F. McKinney

Summer

"Irish and Italians in Providence, Rhode Island, 1880-1960,"

by Leo E. Carroll

"Responses to the Rhode Island Workingmen's Reform Agitation

of 1833," edited by Marvin E. Gettleman and Noel P.

Conlon

Fall

"The Merchant as Gambler: Major William Fairchild Megee

(1765-1820)," by Jacques M. Downs

"Still More Notes on Rhode Island Cabinetmakers and Allied

Craftsmen," by Joseph K. Ott

"The Rhode Island Historical Society Film Archive: A

Progress Report," by Kathleen Karr

"Richard LeBaron Bowen, 1878-1969," by Clarkson Collins 3rd

1970 (vol. 29)

Winter & Spring

"Democracy in Revolutionary Rhode Island: A Statistical

Analysis," by Joel A. Cohen

"The Siege of Newport: Inauspicious Dawn of Alliance," by

Paul F. Dearden

"Rhode Island Colonial Records," by Charles W. Farnham

"Crane's Rhode Island Company of Artillery--1775," by Thomas

J. Abernathy

"Rhode Island Negroes in the Revolution: A Bibliography," by

Noel P. Conlon

Summer & Fall

"The Relevance of Congregational Christianity: Barrington

Congregational Church, 1717-1967," by William G.

McLoughlin

"Antislavery Agencies in Rhode Island, 1832-1835," by John

L. Myers

"Optimistic Democrat: Thomas W. Dorr and the Case of Luther

vs. Borden," by C. Peter Magrath

"Black Settlement House, East Greenwich, 1902-1914," by

Jeffrey A. Hess

1971 (vol. 30)

Winter

"Re-enfranchisement of Rhode Island Negroes," by J. Stanley

Lemons and Michael A. McKenna

"Oratory and Learning: Horace Mann at Brown," by Kathleen

Edgerton Kendall

"Antislavery Agents in Rhode Island, 1835-1837," by John L.

Myers

Spring

"Urban Liberalism in Rhode Island, 1909-1919," by John D.

Buenker

"Charles Dudley and the Customs Quandary in Pre-Revolutionay

Rhode Island," by Larry R. Gerlach

"Cowesett Road, 1870-1900," by Anne Crawford Allen Holst

Summer

"Students and the Andrews Legend at Brown," by James E.

Hansen II

"The French Fleet at Newport, 1780-1781," by Henry J. Yeager

"Rhode Island's Paper Money Issue and Trevett v. Weeden

(1786)," by Patrick T. Conley

Fall

"Miantonomo's Death and New England Politics, 1630-1645," by

John A. Sainsbury

"William Ellery: Making of a Rhode Island Politician," by

William M. Fowler Jr.

"Mutiny at Camp Hubbard," by Claaaude M. Morgan

1972 (vol. 31)