what are the first known inhabitants of Rhode Island?
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Roger Williams was the first to inhabit rhode island sailing over with people from England. While there were more inhabitants such as Puritans, Roger Williams was the first to recognize the free practice of religion. The early Vikings were throught to have first visited rhode island, but it hasn't been proven.
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I traced the early history of GA to here: \n\nCherokee and Creek Indians lived in Georgia when Hernando de Soto, the Spanish explorer, first traveled parts of Georgia in 1540. By 1566, forts were built along the Atlantic coast, including the first in Georgia on St. Catherine's Island. However, no permanent settlements were established.  \n\nIn 1732, English King George II granted a charter for the last of the 13th colony in America. There were originally twenty one trustees named in the 1732 charter "The Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia". Over the period of the trusteeship (1732-1755), fifty more were added. For an alphabetical listing of all the trustees, click here. For more detailed information on the institutional organization and development of the province, please see Georgia as a Proprietary Province: The Execution of a Trust by James Ross McCain (Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1917).
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Why do so many people think it is Rhode Island? Because it is the smallest state geographically? \n \nWyoming is the smallest state in population, per the census of 2000.\n  \nRhode Island ranks 43rd...in other words, seven states are smaller. \n \nTop ten:\n    California                 33,871,648  \n    Texas                      20,851,820  \n    New York                   18,976,457   \n    Florida                    15,982,378  \n    Illinois                   12,419,293  \n    Pennsylvania               12,281,054   \n    Ohio                       11,353,140  \n    Michigan                    9,938,444    \n    New Jersey                  8,414,350    \n    Georgia                     8,186,453  \n\nBottom ten:\n    New Hampshire               1,235,786  \n    Hawaii                      1,211,537   \n    Rhode Island                1,048,319  \n    Montana                       902,195  \n    Delaware                      783,600   \n    South Dakota                  754,844  \n    North Dakota                  642,200    \n    Alaska                        626,932  \n    Vermont                       608,827    \n    Wyoming                       493,782
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they both founded current states, Pennsylvania(Penn) and Rhode Island(Wiliams).
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new york was originall new amsterdam which is to say the Dutch were the first colonists to settle the area, it was later captured by the British and renamed as present.
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Funny question!!! I'd say the Phoenicians were the ones who discovered us in the sense Columbus discovered America. The sailed the Mediterranean, arrived in the South of Spain 3000 years ago and founded the town of Cadiz, which still exists. Actually, it is the oldest Western town!!
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If you mean the first six out of the 13 original colonies of the United States, here you are:\n\n1) Virginia - 1607\n2) New Hampshire - 1623\n3) Massachusetts - c. 1628\n4) Maryland - 1634\n5) Connecticut - 1635\n6) Rhode Island - 1636
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Unlike the rest of the colonies, in Connecticut and Rhode Island the people of the state elected the governor, and, aside from the Navigation and a few other restrictive laws, were practically independent of the Crown. The legislature was bicameral. The respresentative system of government was common to all the colonies.\n\nConnecticut and Rhode Island were chartered (the corporate was the same as the charter form) colonies.
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Jaques Cartier was the first... I don't remember the others, there was also Samuel De Champlain... and the others was some misionairy like Père Marquette... lol I should listen more in history class I learn this this year... well hope you are satisfied by the answer^^
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Rhodes Island's name origin is debatable.  Wikipedia explains it here:\n\n"The state's common name, Rhode Island, actually refers to the largest island in Narragansett Bay, also known as Aquidneck Island, on which the city of Newport is located. The origin of the name is unclear. Some historians think that Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano, upon discovering Block Island, just southwest in the Atlantic Ocean, named it Rhode Island because of its similarity in shape to the Greek island of Rhodes. Later settlers, mistaking which island Verrazzano was referring to, gave the name to Aquidneck Island instead. Other historians believe that the name is derived from Roodt Eylandt, old Dutch for "red island," given to the island by Dutch explorer Adriaen Block due to the red clay on the island's shore."\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhode_Island\n\nJoining states together is something that has been debated off and on throughout American history.  Basing a decision such as making Connecticut and Rhodes Island one state would have to be one not based on size (Because, contrary to common belief... size does not always matter!), but rather the current governmental, economic and social needs of each state and how combining them together would be beneficial... Not that this has always been what has been done in situtations like this in the past.\n\nI think Rhodes Island does very well on its own and doesn't need to be "swallowed" up by a larger neighbor.\n\nBill
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Roger Williams and a group of religious followers founded the town of Providence in what is today known as Rhode Island after their banishment from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Williams believed in the importance of liberty of conscience, which became an important principle in the founding of Rhode Island and ultimately in the founding of the United States. Officially called "The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations," Rhode Island is one of the six New England states and one of the original 13 states of the Union, entering in 1790. It is the smallest state in area in the country. Rhode Island's flower is the violet, and the capital is Providence. The name "Rhode Island" is credited to Italian navigator Giovanni Verrazano who compared the nearby island Block Island to Rhodes in Greece. Later Williams thought that Verrazano had been referring to island where they had settled and began calling the island Rhode Island.
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The Mayflower\n\nhttp://pilgrims.net/plymouth/history/mayflower.html\n\nMayflower Passenger List\n\nhttp://pilgrims.net/plymouth/history/passengers.htm\n\nThe Pilgrims: Voyage to Freedom\n\nhttp://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/ushistory/pilgrims1.htm\n\nhttp://www.pilgrimhall.org/voymayfl.htm\n\nhttp://uk.geocities.com/haywardlass/\n\nhttp://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/coloniz.html\n\nhttp://www.oswego.org/staff/cchamber/resources/colonial.cfm\n\n\nThe Mayflower Compact by William Bradford\nNovember 11, 1620\n\nhttp://www.nationalcenter.org/MayflowerCompact.html\n\nThe Mayflower Compact 1620\n\nAfter many difficulties in boisterous storms, at length by God’s providence...we espied land, which we deemed to be Cape Cod...and upon the 21 of November we came to anchor in the bay [Provincetown Harbor]...\n\nhttp://www.pilgrimhall.org/compcon.htm\n\nThe Names of the Subscribers of the Mayflower Compact\n\nhttp://members.aol.com/calebj/compact.html\n\nAgreement Between the Settlers at New Plymouth : 1620\n\nhttp://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/amerdoc/mayflower.htm\n\nhttp://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/mayflower.htm\n\nPlymouth: Its History and People\n\nhttp://www.plimoth.org/learn/history/colonists/MayflowerCompact.asp\n\nhttp://pilgrims.net/plymouth/history/\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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apparently they actually existed during history.  a hand and a tooth ahve been found in some hindu monastary i believe. they were hugh and dna tested.  no matches were found with any currently living and document creature.
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Halifax or Kingston both claim to be the first.
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1790.  I had thought 1789, but Rhode Island slowed us down a bit.
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In the 1580s, the British established two colonies in North Carolina, both of which failed.\n\nThe first permanent English settlers in North Carolina were immigrants from the tidewater area of southeastern Virginia. The first of these "overflow" settlers moved into the Albemarle area of northeast North Carolina around 1650
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maryland - annapolis\nmassachusettes - boston\nrhode island - providence