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[Illustration: STATUE OF ROGER WILLIAMS.]




                                   A
                             SHORT HISTORY
                                   OF
                             RHODE ISLAND,

                                   BY

                    GEORGE WASHINGTON GREENE, LL.D.,

       LATE NON-RESIDENT PROFESSOR OF AMERICAN HISTORY IN CORNELL
            UNIVERSITY; AUTHOR OF "THE LIFE OF MAJOR-GENERAL
               NATHANAEL GREENE;" "HISTORICAL VIEW OF THE
                    AMERICAN REVOLUTION," ETC., ETC.

                             [Illustration]

                              PROVIDENCE:
                    J. A. & R. A. REID, PUBLISHERS,
                                 1877.


       Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1877, by
                           ANNA MARIA GREENE,
    in the office of the Librarian of Congress,