Box

Folder

Description

Date(s)

1

1

Guardianship of Margaret Smith to Daniel Pierce

4 May 1733

1

2

Citation for John Lillibridge to meet before the Town Council

12 Mar 1738

1

3

List of admitted freemen

29 Aug, 5 Dec 1738

1

4

Letter form Benjamin Peckham, Town Clerk, to Solomon Carpenter, Town Sarjeant

20 May 1741

1

5

Overseers of the Poor - Accounts with Dr. Joseph Torrey for taking care of the sick

Aug 1741 - Feb 1742, Nov 1746

1

6

South Kingstown's bills and receipts

1742 - 1845

1

7

Accounts of Hannah Brooks, paid by the town

9 Apr 1744

1

8

Request by Mary Commel to the Town Council to clear her debt

1745

1

9

Bond for Christopher Fowler

1753

1

10

Taxes - Valuation for colony tax

1757

1

11

Copy of a vote at a meeting to allow Matthew Robinson and William Potter to go before the General Assembly about a neglected grant

Apr 1766

1

12

Complaint against Thomas Pane, Jr. and Mary Westcott for an illegitimate child

15 Aug 1767

1

13

Resolutions made by the South Kingstown Town Meeting following the Tea Tax and Boston Tea Party in 1773

11 Feb 1774

1

14

Warrant for Thomas Hazard, Jr. for his refusal to join General John Sullivan's army

11 Feb 1774

1

15

Appointment of a committee to view land where Benjamin Shearman proposed to build a dam

21 Jun 1774

1

16

Agreement with Benjamin Shearman to build a dam and a sawmill

2 Jul 1774

1

17

Rhode Island General Assembly - An act to prevent monopolies and oppression...

Dec 1776

1

18

Warrant for John Dockery for his refusal to join General John Sullivan's army

10 Nov 1778

1

19

Notice from the Council of War regarding treasury notes and a tax ordered by the General Assembly

12 Mar 1779

1

20

List of the names of the persons who put in proxies for general officers

19 Apr 1780

1

21

Minutes from the Rhode Island General Assembly

Jan 1782

1

22

Proposal to divide the town into two separate towns

Feb 1783

1

23

Instructions for the Representives of South Kingstown

16 Apr 1783

1

24

Report on a committee on imports to South Kingstown

29 Jul 1786

1

25

Petition for a road built from Boston Neck to the water

Mar 1787

1

26

Petition to the Rhode Island General Assembly to ban horse racing

6 Sep 1790

1

27

Overseers of the Poor - Complaint against Augustus Babcock and Mary Slocum

28 Aug 1791

1

28

Warrant for William Dyer's arrest

17 Jan 1793

1

29

Letter from John Gardiner to Samuel Helme regarding a disputed piece of property

31 May 1795

1

30

Liquor license for Elizabeth Potter at her dwelling house

13 Jul 1795

1

31

Request by Thomas Browning to be released from his guardian

15 Aug 1811

1

32

Letter from James Helme re: liquor licenses

29 Jan 1816

1

33

Overseers of the Poor - List of people under the care of James Knowles

2 Jun 1818

1

34

Taxes - Valuation bill with a rate bill of the state tax

1822

1

35

Taxes - Valuation of the real and personal estate of the town of South Kingstown

1822

1

36

Taxes - Valuation of the rateable estates of South Kingstown

15 Sep 1823

1

37

Taxes - Valuation of the rateable property of South Kingstown

15 Sep 1823

1

38

Taxes - Assessors' Certificate

10 Nov 1823

1

39

Overseers of the Poor - Funeral expenses for Joseph Sheffield

10 Mar 1828

1

40

Overseers of the Poor - Funeral expenses for William Patten

5 Feb 1835

1

41

Petition to create a new district in Kingston

May 1840

1

42

Petition for a highway in South Kingstown

12 Sep 1840

1

43

Overseers of the Poor - Complaint against John Tourgee and family

2 Apr 1841

1

44

Letter from Squire Millard

5 Apr 1841

1

45

Schools - Votes by the School Committee to make alterations to the school districts

12 Apr 1841

1

46

Town Council - Minutes

21 Apr 1841

1

47

Request from Sally A. Gardner

11 Nov 1844

1

48

Letter from a resident of Preston, [Conn.]

17 Dec 1844

1

50

Schools - Records of South Kingstown School Districts, Nos. 2 and 5

1844- 1902

1

51

Schools - Assessment of the taxes upon the rateable estates in School District No. 6

25 May 1852

1

52

Schools - Attendance records for students in the public school in District No. 21

1852-1853

1

53

Dog Act (Regulations for keeping a dog)

n.d.

1

54

Excise Bill for liquor

n.d.