1 William H. Jordy, Buildings of Rhode Island, ed. Ronald J. Onorato and William McKenzie Woodward (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004), p. 466.
2 My account is derived from those given in WilfredHarold Munro, The History of Bristol, Rhode Island: The Story of theMount Hope Lands (Providence, 1880), p. 306; M. A. DeWolf Howe,Bristol Rhode Island: A Town Biography (Harvard University Press, Cambridge,1930), p. 91; and George Locke Howe, Mount Hope, A New England Chronicle (Viking Press, New York, 1959), p. 177.
3 Howe, Mount Hope, p. 169, and Munro, History of Bristol, p. 310.
4 Howe, Mount Hope, p. 168.
5 Jay Coughtry, The Notorious Triangle: Rhode Island andthe African Slave Trade 1700–1807 (Temple University Press, Philadelphia,1981), p. 48.
6 Ibid. Bristol Judge John Saffin (1632–1710) voicedwhat many believed, “It is no evil to bring them [Africans] out of theirheathenish country [to] where they may have knowledge of the TrueGod, be converted and eternally saved”; quoted in William D. Piersen,Black Yankees: The Development of an Afro-American Subculture inEighteenth-Century New England (University of Massachusetts Press,Amherst, 1988), p. 52. This tolerance of slavery is perhaps less shockingwhen one realizes that whites and American Indians were also heldin enforced servitude; see Don Jordan and Michael Walsh, White Cargo:The Forgotten History of Britain’s White Slaves in America (New YorkUniversity Press, New York, 2007), p. 14; and Jill Lepore, The Name ofWar: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity (Knopf, New York, 1998), pp. 150–170.
7 Howe, Mount Hope, pp. 65–66.
8 Ibid., p.69.
9 Charles Warren, History of the Harvard Law School and of EarlyLegal Conditions in America (Lewis Publishing Company, New York,1908), pp. 278–279.
10 Thomas W. Bicknell, The History of the State ofRhode Island and Providence Plantations (American Historical Society,New York, 1920), pp. 1142–1143.
11 Joy Wheeler Dow, An ArchitecturalMonograph on the Bristol Renaissance, White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs, vol. 3, no. 5 (October 1917), p. 3.
12 Charles O. F.Thompson, Sketches of Old Bristol (Roger Williams Press, Providence, 1942), p. 90.
13 Munro, History of Bristol, pp. 370–371.
14 Howe, MountHope, p. 230.
15 Ibid., p. 124.
16 Massachusetts Historical Commission,Reconnaissance Survey Town Report Dighton (Boston, 1981), p. 8.
17 New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial, ed. William RichardCutler, 3rd ser., vol. 4 (Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York, 1915), p. 2092.
18 The American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionaryof General Knowledge, ed. George Ripley and Charles A. Dana (New York, 1873–1876), vol. 3, p. 737.
19 “Augustus O. Bourn,” The Historyof the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations: Biographical (American Historical Society, New York, 1920), pp. 74–75.
20 HistoricalNotes, Colt Family Papers, 1793–1961, Special Collections, University of Rhode Island Libraries, Kingston.
21 Glenn D. Babcock, Historyof the United States Rubber Company: A Case Study in CorporationManagement (Bureau of Business Research, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1966), p. 82.
22 Jonathan D. Hill as quoted in The CambridgeHistory of the Native Peoples of the Americas, vol. 3, part 2, ed. Frank Salomonand Stuart B. Schwartz (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999), p. 752.
23 Jordy, Buildings of Rhode Island, p. 464.
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