PREFACE

I WARWICK, NEW AND OLD

II SOURCES OF INFORMATION

III THE MAN AND HIS WORK

IV TROUBLOUS TIMES AT SHAWOMET

V SHAWOMET BECOMES WARWICK

VI SAMUELL GORTON'S LATER CAREER

VII SAMUELL GORTON'S POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

VIII SAMUELL GORTON'S RELIGIOUS CONVICTIONS

IX CONCLUSION

FOOTNOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEX

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE

1. Mary Dyer of Rhode Island, the Quaker Martyr that was hanged on Boston Common June 1, 1660. By Judge Horatio Rogers.

2. A Summer Visit of Three Rhode Islanders to the Massachusetts Bay in 1651: its innocent purpose and its painful consequences. By Henry Melville King.

3. Samuell Gorton: a forgotten founder of our liberties; first settler of Warwick. By Lewis G. Janes.

4. Thomas Olney, Junior, Town Clerk. By Edward Field.

“More ideas which have become National, have emanated from the little Colony of Rhode Island, than from all the other American States.”—George Bancroft, in Address before the New York Historical Society.