- listed in first settlers in Providence.
sometime about June 1636 the following 25 people crossed the river from Seekonk, in the Plymouth Colony, to a location on the Moshassuck River in Narragansett territory which Williams soon named Providence:[8]
Roger Williams with wife Mary and daughters Mary and Freeborn
William Harris with wife Susannah and son Andrew
John Smith (miller) with wife Alice and children John Jr. and Elizabeth
Francis Wickes, a minor
Thomas Angell, a minor
Joshua Verin with wife Jane
William Arnold with wife Christian, daughter Joanne, and son Stephen
Benedict Arnold, still a minor, son of William Arnold
William Carpenter with wife Elizabeth (the daughter of William Arnold)
William Mann with wife Frances Hopkins (the niece of William Arnold)[9]
Thomas Hopkins, still a minor, nephew of William Arnold (and ancestor of Governor Stephen Hopkins)
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