william hutchinson settled in the colony of rhode island.
william hutchinson settled in the colony of rhode island.
who settled in the colony of rhode island?
william hutchinson
despite the magnanimous provisions of rhode island's charter, it did not definitively settle the land disputes with connecticut, which would continue for more than half a century. nor did it settle the issue with the atherton company, occupying two large tracts of land within rhode island's "narragansett country". fortuitous for the rhode island colony, however, was the arrival in 1664 of a group of royal commissioners. samuel gorton had told the crown that in 1644 the narragansett people had submitted themselves to england's king. once the newly arrived commissioners verified this, they declared all of the narragansett territory (what is now washington county and a part of kent county, rhode island, including the atherton tracts), to be kings province. one of the commissioners was samuel maverick, a good friend of rhode island's recent governor william brenton, who abhorred the atherton company. clarke was one of three men allowed to present rhode island's views on the land disputes, and the commissioners ultimately took a strong stance in favor of rhode island. eventually, the atherton company lost its narragansett property, and the kings province became a part of the rhode island colony.
john clarke (baptist minister)
bullet::::- john cranston (1625–1680), deputy governor of rhode island colony 1672–78, governor of rhode island colony 1678–80. father of samuel cranston.









































bullet::::- samuel cranston (1659–1727), governor of rhode island colony 1698–1727. son of john cranston.









































note: samuel cranston was also nephew of rhode island colony governor walter clarke.









































section::::the cranstons of rhode island.









































bullet::::- robert b. cranston (1791–1873), sheriff of newport county, rhode island 1818–27; postmaster of newport, rhode island 1827; u.s. representative from rhode island 1837–43 1847–49; rhode island state representative 1843–47; rhode island state senator; mayor of newport, rhode island 1853. brother of henry y. cranston.
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