Betty B
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594 appearances
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 8 Aug
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Among the leaders in the revolution, the general, who, next to Washington, did his country the greatest service, was Nathaniel Greene.
He was born in seventeen forty two and
At Warwick, ten miles south of Providence.
Twenty miles farther down the shore of the bay, at North Kingston, was born in seventeen fifty six Gilbert Stewart, one of the greatest of American painters, whose portraits of Washington and other distinguished Americans could hardly be surpassed in lifelikeness and charm of color.
South Kingston was the birthplace of Oliver Hazard Perry.
commander of our fleet in the famous Battle of Lake Erie in the War of eighteen twelve.
Among Rhode Island's important summer resorts are Newport, Narragansett Pier, Watch Hill, and Block Island.
The first is the most famous fashionable resort in America.
It is on an island in Narragansett Bay.
The Indian name for the island was Aquidneck, which means the Isle of Peace.
It is about fifteen miles long, but for the most part very narrow.
The early settlers called it Rhode Island, probably because it was in a bay that furnished good anchorages.
The word road or road, as it is more correctly spelled, is used by sailors to designate just such an anchoring place as
Aquigneck's first settlers came in sixteen thirty six as the result of a violent theological dispute in Boston.
caused by the teachings of Mrs.
Anne Hutchinson.
Newport first won fame as a slave port, the greatest in America.
For a long time its ships carried eighteen hundred hogsheads of rum annually to Africa to be exchanged for negroes, gold dust, and ivory.
Slaves were owned for domestic servants by every well to do family in the town.
At the beginning of the Revolution, Newport was commercially more important than New York.
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