RHODE ISLAND: THE GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY OF RHODE ISLAND COMPRISING THREE GENERATIONS OF SETTLERS WHO CAME BEFORE 1690 (WITH MANY FAMILIES CARRIED TO THE FOURTH GENERATION). JOHN OSBORNE AUSTIN. CD-WIN/MACAuthor: John Osborne Austin
Pages: 452
Pub. Date: (1887) 2006
ISBN: 1933828498
Austin has compiled accounts of more than 460
families who settled in Rhode Island during the seventeenth century, tracing
some of the families to the third generation and others to the fourth, including
both male and female lines. These accounts include extensive extracts from
original sources.
Among the original source material, Austin placed special emphasis on probate
records, with full abstracts of the wills and inventories of many first, second
and third generation settlers. He made a special effort to summarize the
officeholding of each settler, and also included information on land
transactions and religious affiliations.
More than 90 of the accounts are taken to the birth of the fourth generation.
The families so treated are generally the earliest settlers, and include most of
the early religious and civic leaders of the colony. For most sketches, whether
of three generations or four, the members of the final generation listed were
born from about the 1690s to the 1730s.
Some of the accounts include information on the European origins of the
settlers, and, where pertinent, on earlier residence in Massachusetts Bay
Colony.
Summary by Robert Charles Anderson, FASG
for Archive CD Books USA
The CD includes high-quality images of every page as originally published (not
just a transcript) and is fully searchable using Adobe Acrobat Reader (version 4
or later recommended) on any Windows, Macintosh, or Unix computer. The data on
this CD is completely self-contained, and requires no installation.
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