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Samuel Gorton (1593–1677) was an early settler and civic leader of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and President of the towns of Providence and Warwick. He had strong religious beliefs which differed from Puritan theology and was very outspoken, and he became the leader of a small sect known as Gortonians ...
28 de mar. de 2008 · The life and times of Samuel Gorton; Very interesting reading - history of founding of Warwick, Rhode Island, followed by detailed genealogical information as to the Gorton family in America through 1907. Info and data well sourced by author.
Samuel Gorton (1593–1677), was an early settler and civic leader of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and President of the towns of Providence and Warwick for one term. Having strong religious beliefs that were contrary to the established Puritan dogma and being very outspoken, he was frequently in trouble with the civil ...
American colonial minister. Learn about this topic in these articles: history of Rhode Island. In Warwick. …made at Shawomet (1642) by Samuel Gorton. Later the colony was named for Robert Rich, 2nd earl of Warwick, who supported Gorton’s quest to gain protection of a royal charter against the Massachusetts Bay colony.
Encyclopedias almanacs transcripts and maps. Samuell Gorton. views 1,374,248 updated. Samuell Gorton (ca. 1592-1677), an English colonizer, held religious views that made him a misfit in early New England and led him to establish his own settlement in Rhode Island. Samuell Gorton was born near Manchester.
This chapter investigates the shadowy world of transoceanic religious practices by reconstructing the milieu that produced two of the most notorious radical dissidents of the seventeenth-century Anglophone world: Samuel Gorton, one of the ‘founding fathers’ of Rhode Island, and Gerrard Winstanley, the intellectual leader of England’s ...
1677. Founders of Rhode Island, Government & Politics, Religion & Churches. Samuel Gorton was born in or around 1592 in the small village of Gorton, just outside of Manchester, England, a location that suggests that his family had some local prominence. Though Samuel (he spelled it with a double l) disclaimed a formal education, he was both ...
