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Title:
  • The life and times of Samuel Gorton : the founders and the founding of the republic, a section of early United States history and a history of the colony of Providence and Rhode Island Plantations in the Narragansett Indian country, now the state of Rhode Island, 1592-1636-1677-1687 / compiled from various accounts, histories, letters, and published and unpublished records, by Adelos Gorton.
Call No:
  • CT275.G675
  • G67 1907
Source of Acquisition:
  • Gorton, Adelos;
  • Gift;
  • 30 Oct. 1907.
Subjects:
Author:
Imprint Place:
  • Philadelphia :
Publisher/Printer:
  • G.S. Ferguson Co., printers,
Imprint Date:
  • 1907.
Physical Description:
  • x, 11-154 p. :
  • ill. ;
  • 25 cm.
Provenance:
  • Gorton, Adelos;
Bibliographic References:
  • CNEB-RI
  • 403
Notes:
  • Includes ms. letter from the author to Clarence S. Bingham, dated 18 Oct. 1907; letter explains author's attempt to write an expanded book that includes a record of Gorton's descendants, and that it was necessary to modify the title page by crossing off the phrase "with a genealogy of Samuel Gorton's descendants to the present time."
  • Includes bibliographical references.
  • Also available in digital form on the Internet Archive Web site.
  • Reclassed from RI Biog in Sept. 2009.
Location:
  • Reading Room
  • Digital Version Available:
    MARC Values: