RHODE ISLAND COURT OF TRIALS 1671-1704

transcribed by Jane Fletcher Fiske, FASG

 

 

This is a literal transcription of the first half of “Newport Court Book A” which is actually a record of the Court of Trials for the entire colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation.

 

The murder of Thomas Cornell of Portsmouth in 1672 is recorded here, and a 1676 court martial of several Indians for specific actions against colonists in King Philip’s War, as well as many bastardy cases and other matters.  Full lists of Jurors are included.

 

This volume extends the coverage of Rhode Island Court Records in print to 1704, picking up in 1671 where earlier records published by the Rhode Island Historical Society (in 1920 and 1922) stopped.

 

An appendix includes twelve pages of Warwick Quarterly Court records 1659-1674, first published privately in pamphlet form in 1922.

 

There are two indexes, one for persons (with entries for jurors distinguished from people named in cases), and a second that covers places and subjects.

 

INTRODUCTION - 1

 

INTRODUCTION - 2

 

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Hardcover; 256 +xiv pages.

 

ISBN 0-96157790-2-1

 

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