PROVIDENCE, R. I.
History of the State of Rhode Island
and Providence Plantations,
1636-1790.
By SAMUEL GREENE ARNOLD.
New Edition. 2 vols. Octavo. 574 and 600 pp. $7.50, net.
Governor Arnold’s History of Rhode Island, based upon a careful study of documents in the British State Paper Office and in the Rhode Island State Archives, supplemented by investigations at Paris and The Hague, has from its publication been the authoritative history of the State.
Genealogical students will find in these volumes the names of over fifteen hundred persons prominent in Rhode Island affairs. This work is of much more than local interest, as the experiment of religious liberty here tried gives to this history an importance far beyond the narrow limits of the State.