Letter to R.M. Johnson from Nicholas Boss responding to Johnson inquiry about a gallows which stood on Easton's Beach. According to two eyewitnesses, at least three individuals were executed ...
Sailing orders from Samuel & William Vernon, Newport, RI to Captain Peter Dordin, Sept. 15, 1762. Early slave document detailing orders to Dordin, Master, Brig Reynard, to proceed "directly for the co...
Most of the entries in this volume date from the 1793 to 1803 and are the accounts of Deacon John Irish of Middletown. They document buying and selling of crops and livestock, including corn, butter,...
An account book detailing transactions associated with merchant John Banister (1707-1767), September 1746-December 1749. Some highlights include Banister's exporting of Narragansett Pacers to the West...