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HISTORICAL OVERVIEW Rhode Island is a small state with a long name — State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. The original four towns were clustered around Narragansett Bay. Roger Williams, a minister banished from Massachusetts Bay, established Providence. Another religious free thinker, Samuel Gorton, founded Warwick; Anne Hutchinson’s followers settled in Portsmouth; and Thomas View Website VIP Subscription

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