Deputy Governors.

William Brenton,March 12, 1640 to May 10, 1647.
From 1647 to 1663 the colony governed by a president, with four assistants.
William Brenton,1663 to 1666.
Nicholas Easton,1666 to 1669.
John Clarke,1669 to 1670.
Nicholas Easton,1670 to 1671.
John Clarke,1671 to 1672.
John Cranston,1672 to 1673.
William Coddington,1673 to 1674.
John Easton,1674 to 1676.
John Cranston,1676 to 1678.
James Barker,1678 to 1679.
Walter Clarke,1679 to 1686.
John Coggeshall,May to June, 1686.
(Charter suspended, 1686 to 1690.)
John Coggeshall,1690.
John Greene,1690 to 1700.
Walter Clarke,1700 to 1714. Died.
Henry Tew,1714 to 1715.
Joseph Jencks,1715 to 1721.
John Wanton,1721 to 1722.
Joseph Jencks,1722 to 1727.
Jonathan Nicholls,May to August, 1727. Died.
Thomas Frye,1727 to 1729.
John Wanton,1729 to 1734.
George Hassard,1734 to 1738. Died.
Daniel Abbott,1738 to 1740.
Richard Ward,May to July, 1740.
William Greene,1740 to 1743.
Joseph Whipple,1743 to 1745.
William Robinson,1745 to 1746.
Joseph Whipple,1746 to 1747.
William Robinson,1747 to 1748.
William Ellery,1748 to 1750.
Robert Haszard,1750 to 1751.
Joseph Whipple,1751 to 1753.
Jonathan Nichols,1753 to 1754.
John Gardner,1754 to 1755.
Jonathan Nichols,1755 to 1756.
John Gardner,1756 to 1764.
Joseph Wanton, Jr.,1764 to 1765.
Elisha Brown,1765 to 1767.
Joseph Wanton, Jr.,1767 to 1768.
Nicholas Cooke,1768 to 1769.
Darius Sessions,1769 to 1775.
Nicholas Cooke,May to November, 1775.
William Bradford,1775 to 1778.
Jabez Bowen,1778 to 1780.
William West,1780 to 1781.
Jabez Bowen,1781 to 1786.
Daniel Owen,1786 to 1790.
Samuel J. Potter,1790 to 1799.

The title was now changed to lieutenant-governor.

LIEUTENANT-GOVERNORS.

Samuel J. Potter,Feb., 1799 to May, 1799.
George Brown,1799 to 1800.
Samuel J. Potter,1800 to 1803.
Paul Mumford,1803 to 1806.
Isaac Wilbour,1806 to 1807.
Constant Taber,1807 to 1808.
Simeon Martin,1808 to 1810.
Isaac Wilbour,1810 to 1811.
Simeon Martin,1811 to 1816.
Jeremiah Thurston,1816 to 1817.
Edward Wilcox,1817 to 1821.
Caleb Earle,1821 to 1824.
Charles Collins,1824 to 1833.
Jeffrey Hazard,1833 to 1835.
George Engs,1835 to 1836.
Jeffrey Hazard,1836 to 1837.
Benjamin B. Thurston,1837 to 1838.
Joseph Childs,1838 to 1840.
Byron Diman,1840 to 1842.
Nathaniel Bullock,1842 to 1843.
Byron Diman,1843 to 1846.
Elisha Harris,[I]1846 to 1847.
Edward W. Lawton,1847 to 1849.
Thomas Whipple,1849 to 1851.
William Beach Lawrence,1851 to 1852.
Samuel G. Arnold,1852 to 1853.
Francis M. Dimond,1853 to 1854.
John J. Reynolds,1854 to 1855.
Anderson C. Rose,1855 to 1856.
Nicholas Brown,1856 to 1857.
Thomas G. Turner,1857 to 1859.
Isaac Saunders,1859 to 1860.
J. Russell Bullock,1860 to 1861.
Samuel G. Arnold,1861 to 1863.
Seth Padelford,1863 to 1865.
Duncan C. Pell,1865 to 1866.
William Greene,1866 to 1868.
Pardon W. Stevens,1868 to 1872.
Charles R. Cutler,1872 to 1873.
Charles C. Van Zandt[I]1873 to 1875.
Henry T. Sisson,[I]1875 to ——

[I] Elected by the Assembly: no choice by the people.

MEMBERS
OF THE
Continental Congress
From Rhode Island.

Jonathan Arnold,1782 to 1783.
Peleg Arnold,1787 to 1789.
John Collins,1778 to 1782.
Ezekiel Cornell,1780 to 1782.
William Ellery,1776 to 1784.
Jonathan J. Hazard,1787 to 1789.
Stephen Hopkins,1774 to 1779.
David Howell,1782 to 1784.
James Manning,Feb., 1786.
Henry Marchant,Feb., 1777 to 1784.
Nathan Miller,Feb., 1786.
Daniel Mowry,1780 to 1781.
James M. Varnum,1780, ’81, ’86.
Samuel Ward,1774 to 1775.
John Gardner,1788 to 1789.
William Bradford,[J]Oct., 1776.
John Brown,[J]1785.
George Champlin,[J]1785 to 1786.
Paul Mumford,[J]1785.
Peter Phillips,[J]1785.
Sylvester Gardner,[J]1787.
Thomas Holden,[J]1788 to 1789.

[J] Duly elected, but their names are not in the Journals of Congress.