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Providence
KNOWLEDGE OF Providence
The port of Providence looks much like it did in colonial times: the downtown waterfront sculpted into paths and promenades with boat rides down the winding Providence River. You can imagine the Indians paddling their canoes on that same stretch of river, stopping to hunt for game from the inland forests and fields.
Five tribes of the Algonquin Indian family were the first peoples to call Rhode Island home. The Niantic, Nipmuc, Pequot, Narragansett and Wampanoag were peace-loving farmers who supplemented their plantings with fish caught along the coastlands, pheasants fluttering in the bushes, rabbits, and running deer.
In 1511, Miguel Corte-Real, a fierce Portuguese navigator, carved his name on a rock in the Dighton River in nearby Tauton. Some thirteen years later, the Italian explorer Verrazano sailed under the French flag into Naragansett Bay. He wrote that the land he saw resembled the Isle of Rhodes in the Aegean Sea. Ninety years later when the Dutch voyager, Adrian Block laid eyes on the clay cliffs of what is now called Block Island, he named it Roodt Eylandt or Red Island. These explorers contributed to the naming of Rhode Island, although it is Roger Williams who selected the name of Providence, meaning God’s merciful providence, after purchasing the land from two Narragansett chiefs.
Roger Williams was exiled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1636 because he did not agree with the strict limitations the Colony had placed on religion and politics. By 1639, Baptists, Quakers, Calvinists, and Jews had established congregations in Providence and surrounding areas.
Williams won the respect of both the Indians and settlers by keeping the peace between the Narragansetts and colonists. Aggression by the colony for Indian land, disputes over boundaries and culture and a sneak attack on the Narragansetts by Plymouth forces, caused the friendly tribe to join with the Wampanoag in the infamous King Philip’s War. Thousands of Indians and colonists were killed including women and children. The land was destroyed and four decades of progress were wiped out.
The colonist had to start over from scratch, farming their land and plying wares in trade and business. They accomplished much from hard work and whatever tools and knowledge they could garner from various sources. Their labor produced businesses in manufacturing and textiles that thrive today in Providence factories and surrounding vicinities.
Five tribes of the Algonquin Indian family were the first peoples to call Rhode Island home. The Niantic, Nipmuc, Pequot, Narragansett and Wampanoag were peace-loving farmers who supplemented their plantings with fish caught along the coastlands, pheasants fluttering in the bushes, rabbits, and running deer.
In 1511, Miguel Corte-Real, a fierce Portuguese navigator, carved his name on a rock in the Dighton River in nearby Tauton. Some thirteen years later, the Italian explorer Verrazano sailed under the French flag into Naragansett Bay. He wrote that the land he saw resembled the Isle of Rhodes in the Aegean Sea. Ninety years later when the Dutch voyager, Adrian Block laid eyes on the clay cliffs of what is now called Block Island, he named it Roodt Eylandt or Red Island. These explorers contributed to the naming of Rhode Island, although it is Roger Williams who selected the name of Providence, meaning God’s merciful providence, after purchasing the land from two Narragansett chiefs.
Roger Williams was exiled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1636 because he did not agree with the strict limitations the Colony had placed on religion and politics. By 1639, Baptists, Quakers, Calvinists, and Jews had established congregations in Providence and surrounding areas.
Williams won the respect of both the Indians and settlers by keeping the peace between the Narragansetts and colonists. Aggression by the colony for Indian land, disputes over boundaries and culture and a sneak attack on the Narragansetts by Plymouth forces, caused the friendly tribe to join with the Wampanoag in the infamous King Philip’s War. Thousands of Indians and colonists were killed including women and children. The land was destroyed and four decades of progress were wiped out.
The colonist had to start over from scratch, farming their land and plying wares in trade and business. They accomplished much from hard work and whatever tools and knowledge they could garner from various sources. Their labor produced businesses in manufacturing and textiles that thrive today in Providence factories and surrounding vicinities.
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