Identifier: historyofstateof00ar (find matches)
Title: History of the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Arnold, Samuel Greene, 1821-1880
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Publisher: New York, London, D. Appleton & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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was established. Amore thorough drill-system was adopted. Two additionalcompanies were raised in Newport. Fort George wasenlarged so as to mount ten more cannon. A powdermagazine of brick was constructed, and the military storeswere increased in every county. Ten new field-pieceswere ordered. Those whose consciences forbade theirfighting, were required to act as scouts or guards, to fur-nish their horses for service in case of alarm, and to doany other duty not repulsive to their religious views. Thewar sloop Tartar was fitted to be ready for sea in thespring. These preparations occupied the entire session. The governor was requested to despatch a suitable ves-sel to )^ova Scotia to bring the boundary commissionersMar. to Providence. Massachusetts added two members to27. the committee appointed to prepare her case, one of whomwas William Shirley, who, a few months later, succeeded31. Belcher as governor of the province. A brief statement » Printed in R. I. Col. Rec, vol. v., p. 8-14.
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MEETING OF THE COMMISSIONERS. 131 of tlic claim to he submitted to the commissioners ^vas CHAP,reported, asserting the middle of the east passage of Nar- ^Z^-raganset Bay, and so up the Pawtucket Eiver to the 1741.starting point of the northern line of Rhode Island, as runin 1719, to be the proper boundary of the two colonies. TheGeneral Assembly empowered their committee to employ Aprilcounsel, and named the two officers required by the com-mission, upon whom process might be served. On theappointed day, only two of the commissioners appeared. 7.The commission was read, clerks Avere chosen, and theclaims were presented and filed. Ehode Island claimed,under the royal charter, from a point three miles east-north-east of Assonet, due south to the ocean, and w^ester-ly to Fox Point; thence by the east bank of the river toPawtucket falls, and thence due north to the Massachu-setts line. The court met and adjourned every week,awaiting the arrival of more members, until the end of themonth,

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