Rhode Island Genealogy at Ancestry

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Statewide Genealogy

• Additions and corrections to the first series of Rhode Island historical tracts : with an index to the same.
• An account of the churches in Rhode Island
• Bibliography of Rhode Island : a catalogue of books and other publications relating to the state of Rhode Island, with notes, h
• Bibliography of Rhode Island history
• Biographical encyclopaedia of Connecticut and Rhode Island of the nineteenth century
• Directory of churches and religious organizations of Rhode Island
• Genealogies of Rhode Island Families, Vol. I
• Genealogies of Rhode Island Families, Vol. II
• Gleanings from the judicial history of Rhode Island
• Industries and wealth of the principal points in Rhode Island
• Inventory of the town and city archives of Rhode Island
• Inventory of the town and city archives of Rhode Island
• Memoir concerning the French settlements and French settlers in the colony of Rhode Island
• Memoirs of the Rhode Island bar
• Men of progress : biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island
• Negroes on the island of Rhode Island
• Officers, boards and commissions of Rhode Island
• Official gazetteer of Rhode Island
• Official souvenir & program : Rhode Island Old Home Week
• Reminiscences of the Rhode Island bar
• Report on the archives of Rhode Island
• Rhode Island boundaries : 1636-1936
• Rhode Island Census, 1740-1890
• Rhode Island Census, 1774
• Rhode Island court records : records of the Court of Trials of the Colony of Providence Plantations, 1647-1662.
• Rhode Island Freemen, 1747-1755
• Rhode Island Historical Society
• Rhode Island Passenger Lists
• Rhode Island Passenger Lists by Maureen A. Taylor
• Rhode Island Pensioners, 1835
• Rhode Island, Births, 1636-1930
• Rhode Island, Deaths, 1630-1930
• Rhode Island, Indexes to Naturalization Records, 1890-1992
• Rhode Island, Marriages, 1636-1930
• Sketches of Rhode Island physicians : deceased prior to 1850
• Some account of the bills of credit or paper money of Rhode Island : from the first issue in 1710, to the final issue, 1786
• The Catholic Church in Rhode Island
• The history of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
• The Irish vanguard of Rhode Island
• Web: Rhode Island, Find A Grave Index, 1663-2011

Rhode Island Military Data at Ancestry

• A country boy’s first three months in the army
• A history of Company A of the Young Republican Regiment of Providence, R.I.
• Addresses and poem in commemoration of the Captain Michael Pierce fight, March 26, 1676
• Forty-six months with the Fourth R.I. Volunteers in the War of 1861 to 1865 : comprising a history of the marches, battles, and
• History of the Fifth Regiment of Rhode Island Heavy Artillery : during three years and a half of service in North Carolina : Ja
• Military history of Westerly : 1710-1932
• New index to the civil and military lists of Rhode Island
• Proceedings at the dedication of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument in Providence : to which is appended a list of the decea
• Rhode Island Colonial War Servicemen, 1740-62
• Rhode Island in the colonial wars : a list of Rhode Island soldiers & sailors in King George’s war, 1740-1748
• Rhode Island privateers in King George’s war
• The Fourteenth Regiment Rhode Island Heavy Artillery (Colored) in the War to Preserve the Union, 1861-1865
• The Muster rolls of three companies enlisted by the colony of Rhode Island in May, 1746, for an expedition against Canada propo
• The Rhode Island 1777 Military Census

Miscellaneous Rhode Island data at Ancestry

• A dying Narragansett church
• A plea for progress : enforced and illustrated by a short dissertation on the habits and characteristics of the Rhode Island cl
• A sermon preached November 26, 1829 : being the day of Thanksgiving : containing a history of the origin and growth of the Seco
• A Summer at sea
• Almon Danforth Hodges and his neighbors : an autobiographical sketch of a typical old New Englander
• An address
• An address memorial of Alexander H. Vinton, Edward A. Washburn, Samuel Osgood, and William Rudder
• An Historical address and poem : delivered at the centennial celebration of the incorporation of the town of Barrington, June 1
• An historical discourse delivered at the celebration of the second centennial anniversary of the First Baptist Church in Provid
• An historical discourse delivered in St. John’s Church, Providence, R.I.
• An historical sermon on the occasion of the two hundredth anniversary of the foundation of St. John’s Church in Providence
• An Historical sketch of the Sisters of Mercy of Saint Francis Xavier’s Convent
• An old church in a new world : a sermon, commemorative of the two hundredth anniversary of the founding of the First Congregati
• An old New England meeting house : a sermon
• Anchors of tradition : a presentment of some little known facts and persons in a small corner of colonial New England called Na
• Annals of Trinity Church : Newport, Rhode Island, 1698-1821
• Bell Street Chapel anniversaries : James Eddy, born May 29, 1806-died May 18, 1888 (one hundredth anniversary of birth) : the c
• Bibliographical memoirs of three Rhode Island authors : Joseph K. Angell, Frances H. (Whipple) McDougall, Catharine R. Williams
• Colonial heraldry : a roll of the arms used in the English colony of Rhode Island in New England, 1636-1776 : together with his
• Death Seem’d to Stare: The New Hampshire and Rhode Island Regiments at Valley Forge
• Dedication of Ministers’ Monument : Aug. 28, 1899.
• Dedication of the Massasoit Memorial : at Warren, Rhode Island, October ninteenth, nineteen hundred and seven.
• Discourse delivered in the First Baptist Meeting House : Providence, Sunday morning, May 28, 1865, ninety years after its first
• Discourses comprising a history of the First Congregational Church in Providence
• Four papers delivered before the Westerly Historical Society of Westerly, Rhode Island : during the years 1915, 1916, and a lis
• Hand-book of the High Street Congregational Church, Providence, R.I. : containing the constitution, confession of faith, covena
• Historical discourse delivered in St. Mark’s Church, Warren, R.I.
• Historical discourse of the First Baptist Meeting-House : Providence, R.I.
• Historical sketch of the Baptist Church in Exeter, Rhode Island (Chestnut Hill)
• Historical sketch of the Narragansett Baptist Association : Rhode Island, 1860-1884
• Historical sketches of the First Congregational Church
• Historical study of the Jews in Massachusetts (1650-1750)
• History of Fall River : with notices of Freetown and Tiverton
• History of Methodism in Providence, Rhode Island
• History of the Episcopal Church in Narragansett, Rhode Island
• Homestead of Lieut. Governor William West, Scituate, Rhode Island
• Inauguration of the Perry statue, September 10, A.D. 1885 : with the addresses of William P. Sheffield, and the remarks in rece
• King’s pocket-book of Providence, R.I.
• Little Compton Families Vol. I
• Little Compton Families Vol. II
• Narragansett and Mount Hope Bays : picturesque Narragansett, an illustrated guide to the cities, towns and famous resorts of Rh
• Narragansett Bay : its historic and romantic associations and picturesque setting
• Old houses with stories
• One hundred years
• Opening of the Hazard Memorial
• Oration by Horatio Rogers, Providence, Rhode Island, 1875
• Oration delivered at the dedication of the Providence County Court House : December 18, 1877
• Roger Williams’s “Christenings make not Christians,” 1645 : a long-lost tract recovered and exactly reprinted
• Scrapbook of newspaper-clipping containing epitaphs from several cemeteries
• Sowams : with ancient records of Sowams and parts adjacent–illustrated
• Stephen Hopkins, a Rhode Island statesman : a study in the political history of the eighteenth century
• The Ancestral dictionary
• The capture of General Richard Prescott by Lt.-Col. William Barton : an address
• The centennial discourse on the one hundredth anniversary of the First Baptist Church, Warren, R.I. : November 15, 1864
• The controversy touching the Old Stone Mill in the town of Newport, Rhode Island
• The diary of Thomas Vernon : a loyalist, banished from Newport by the Rhode Island General Assembly in 1776 : with notes
• The first hundred years : Pawcatuck Seventh Day Baptist Church, Westerly, Rhode Island, 1840-1940.
• The history of the Bell Street Chapel movement : May, 1888 to July, 1902
• The Hundredth milestone
• The Juniper Hill Cemetery
• The life and recollections of John Howland : late president of the Rhode Island Historical Society
• The medical school formerly existing in Brown University
• The one hundred and seventy-fifth anniversary of the organization of the United Congregational Church
• The past and the present : Narragansett sea and shore : an illustrated guide to Providence, Newport, Narragansett Pier, Block I
• The twentieth anniversary of the Pilgrim Congregational Church, Providence, R.I.
• Three papers delivered before the Westerly Historical Society of Westerly, Rhode Island during the years 1913 to 1915
• William Coddington in Rhode Island colonial affairs

Rhode Island County Specific Genealogy at Ancestry

• History of Newport County, Rhode Island : from the year 1638 to the year 1887, including the settlement of its towns, and their
• History of Providence County, Rhode Island
• South county studies : of some eighteenth century persons, places & conditions in that portion of Rhode Island called Narragans

Rhode Island Town Specific Genealogy at Ancestry

• A copy of the old epitaphs in the burying ground of Block Island, R.I.
• A defence of Samuel Gorton and the settlers of Shawomet
• A discourse delivered at Providence, August 5, 1836 : in commemoration of the first settlement of Rhode-Island and Providence P
• A discourse delivered at the dedication of the new church edifice of the Baptist Church and Society in Warren, R.I. : May 8, 18
• A gazetteer of the states of Connecticut and Rhode-Island
• A guide to Providence River and Narragansett Bay : from Providence to Newport : in which all the towns, villages, islands and i
• A hand-book of Newport and Rhode Island
• A historical discourse delivered on the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the planting of Providence
• A history of Barrington, Rhode Island
• A history of the Unitarian Church in Newport, Rhode Island
• A list of persons assessed in the city tax of $90,170 58
• A Modern city : Providence, Rhode Island and its activities
• An historical sketch of Middletown, R.I. : from its organization in 1743, to the centennial year, 1876
• An illustrated history of Pawtucket, Central Falls, and vicinity : a narrative of the growth and evolution of the community
• Annals of Centerdale : in the town of North Providence, Rhode Island : its past and present, 1636-1909
• Annals of the town of Providence : from its first settlement to the organization of the city government in June, 1832
• Bristol, Rhode Island : a town biography
• Burrillville : as it was and as it is
• Celebration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the settlement of the town of Bristol, Rhode Island : September 24th, A.D. 1880
• Descendants of John Collins of Charlestown, R.I. and Susannah Daggett, his wife
• Early recollections of Newport, R.I. : from the year 1793 to 1811
• Early religious leaders of Newport : eight addresses delivered before the Newport Historical Society, 1917.
• Historic Newport
• Historical sketch of the town of Hopkinton
• Historical sketches of the churches of Warwick, Rhode Island
• History of the town of East Greenwich and adjacent territory : from 1677 to 1877
• History of the town of Smithfield
• History of the Wanton family of Newport, Rhode Island
• History of Woonsocket
• Ideal Newport in the eighteenth century
• Index to The early records of the town of Providence, volumes I- XXI : containing also a summary of the contents of the volumes
• Inscriptions on the grave-stones in the old churchyard of St. Paul’s Narragansett : North Kingstown, Rhode Island : with a rec
• Johnston, Rhode Island Directory, 1892
• List of members of the First Baptist Church in Providence, R.I. : with biographical sketches of the pastors.
• List of persons, copartnerships, and corporations assessed in the city tax ordered by the city council of the city of Providenc
• Newport
• Newport and Narragansett Bay
• Newport Daily News (Newport, Rhode Island)
• Newport illustrated : in a series of pen & pencil sketches
• Newport Journal And Weekly News (Newport, Rhode Island)
• Newport Mercury (Newport, Rhode Island)
• Newport Mercury And Weekly News (Newport, Rhode Island)
• Newport Navalog (Newport, Rhode Island)
• Newport, Block Island and Narragansett Pier
• Newport, Rhode Island Directories, 1887-92
• North Providence centennial : a report of the celebration at Pawtucket, North Providence, of the one hundredth anniversary of t
• Notes and queries concerning the early bounds and divisions of the township of East Greenwich : as set forth in William Hall’s
• Old Providence : a collection of facts and traditions relating to various buildings and sites of historic interest in Providenc
• Pawtucket, Rhode Island Directories, 1890-92
• Providence Early Town Records
• Providence, Rhode Island Directory, 1890
• Re-union of the sons and daughters of Newport, R.I. : August 23, 1859
• Register of Seamen’s Protection Certificates from the Providence, Rhode Island Customs District, 1796-1870
• Reminiscences of Newport
• Rhode Island City Directories
• Semi-centennial of the Providence journal : January 3, 1870.
• Seventeenth century place-names of Providence plantations
• Several purchases of the lands west of Wickford
• Ships and shipmasters of old Providence : a brief account of some of the famous merchants, sea captains and ships of the past,
• Sketches of old Bristol
• Some papers delivered before the Westerly Historical Society of Westerly, Rhode Island
• Some papers delivered before the Westerly Historical Society of Westerly, Rhode Island : during the years 1940-1954.
• Tales of an old sea port : a general sketch of the history of Bristol, Rhode Island, including, incidentally, an account of the
• Tax lists of the town of Providence : during the administration of Sir Edmund Andros and his council, 1686-1689 : together with
• The early history of Narragansett : with an appendix of original documents, many of which are now for the first time published
• The early records of the town of Portsmouth
• The early records of the town of Providence
• The early records of the town of Warwick
• The First Church in Providence
• the First Congregational Church in Providence, R.I.
• The history of Warren, R.I. from the earliest times : with particular notices of Massasoit and his family
• The history of Warren, Rhode Island, in the War of the Revolution, 1776-1783
• The history of Warwick, Rhode Island : from its settlement in 1642 to the present time : including accounts of the early settle
• The old court house at Kingston where the legislature used to meet when it held sessions in Washington County
• The origin and progress of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Warren, R.I. : including notices of many clergymen and others who
• The planting and growth of Providence : illustrated in the gradual accumulation of the materials for domestic comfort, the mean
• The progress of Providence : a centennial address to the citizens of Providence, R.I.
• Town and city government in Providence
• Views of Newport, R.I. and the neighbourhood
• Vital record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, first series, births, marriages and deaths : a family register for the people
• Westerly (Rhode Island) and its witnesses : for two hundred and fifty years, 1626-1876 : including Charlestown, Hopkinton, and
• Westerly, Rhode Island Directories, 1888-90, 1892
• Woonsocket, Rhode Island Directories, 1890-93