hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 2 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Browsing named entities in Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing). You can also browse the collection for November 1st, 1678 AD or search for November 1st, 1678 AD in all documents.

Your search returned 2 results in 2 document sections:

Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Coddington, William 1601- (search)
Coddington, William 1601- Founder of Rhode Island; born in Lincolnshire, England, in 1601; came to America in 1630 as a magistrate of Massachusetts appointed by the crown. He was a prosperous merchant in Boston, but, taking the part of Anne Hutchinson (q. v.), he was so persecuted that, with eighteen others, he removed to the island of Aquidneck (now Rhode Island), where, on the organization of a government, he was appointed judge, or chief ruler. In March, 1640, Coddington was elected governor, and held the office seven years. He went to England in 1651, and in 1674-75 he was again governor. He adopted the tenets of the Quakers. He died Nov. 1, 1678.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Rhode Island, (search)
y Indians, who send his head as a token of love and loyalty to the commissioners at Hartford......April 4, 1676 Massacre in a cedar swamp near Warwick of 171 Indians by a party of English who did not lose a man......July 3, 1676 King Philip shot through the heart by an Indian while attempting to escape from a swamp near Mount Hope......Aug. 12, 1676 Governor Benedict Arnold dies June 20, 1678, and is succeeded by William Coddington......Aug. 28, 1678 Governor Coddington dies Nov. 1, 1678, and is succeeded by deputy-governor John Cranston......Nov. 15, 1678 Maj. Peleg Sandford succeeds Cranston as governor, who dies......March 12, 1680 Custom-house established at Newport to enforce the navigation acts published by the beat of drums......April 1, 1681 Assembly first meets at Providence under new charter......Oct. 26, 1681 Roger Williams dies, aged eighty-four, and is buried in Portsmouth......1683 Royal government established in Narraganset, with a court of r