[15] See Appendix.
[16] Callender’s Historical Discourse.
[17] William White died, 1621. The actual purchasers were his two sons, Resolved and Peregrine.
[18] The English gave the name of Mt. Hope Neck to the peninsula formed by Sowams River and Narragansett Bay on the west and Kickemuit River and Mt. Hope Bay on the east. It is a tract nine miles in extent, of which one mile is in North Swansea, three miles are in Warren and the remaining five miles, including the hill from which the neck is named are in Bristol.
[19] “Petronel, a kind of carabine or horseman’s pistol.” Webster.
[20] The name of Alexander’s son is unknown.
[21] See Appendix.
[22] After the close of Philip’s war, Job Winslow erected a “dwelling house” near the “wading-place” at Kickemuit on what is now the farm of Mr. Edward Ennis. It is probable that the house “broken up” by the Indians occupied this same site.
[23] This was located in what is now Barneysville. The bridge over Palmer’s River near its site is still generally called “Miles’ Bridge.”
[24] Birch Swamp in the north-easterly part of Warren.