Rhode Island Maps From Ancestry.com Wiki This entry was
originally written by Alice Eichholz, Ph.D., CG for Red Book:
American State, County, and Town Sources. An excellent map of
Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, 1636–65, makes clear
the location and dates of purchase for all of the early
settlements. Land disputes and dates of boundaries of resolution
are included. A copy can be found in James Truslow Adams, ed.,
Atlas of American History (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons,
1943). Two other excellent published map resources are John
Hutchins Cady, Rhode Island Boundaries, 1636–1936 (Providence,
R.I.: State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, 1936),
and Marion I. Wright and Robert J. Sullivan, Rhode Island Atlas
(Providence, R.I.: Rhode Island Publications Society, 1982).
Perhaps the largest collection of maps in the state can be found
at the Rhode Island Historical Society, although some of these
are on microfilm through the FHL. A “Chronological Checklist of
Maps in Rhode Island in the Rhode