County Resources:
Rhode Island
Statehood: 4 May 1776
13th state of the United States
Bordering states:
North: Massachusetts
East: Massachusetts
West: Connecticut
Capital and largest city: Providence
Map: Rhode Island, 1797
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Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division
Institutions, Societies, and Government Websites
Archives Treasures, Rhode Island Department of State
Brown University Library Digital Collection
City of Providence List of Holdings
Providence College Digital and Special Collections
Providence Public Library Digital Collections
Redwood Library & Athenæum Special Collections
Rhode Island Genealogical Society
Rhode Island Historical Society
RIAMCO, Rhode Island Archival and Manuscript Collections Online
Salve Regina University Archives and Special Collections
South Kingstown Colonial Records,
Salve Regina University Archives & Special Collections
University of Rhode Island Rhode Island Election Ballots Collection
University of Rhode Island Historical Images
University of Rhode Island, Special Collections
Manuscripts and Personal Papers
University of Rhode Island, Susan Hale Collection, 1842–1934
Kent County
Warwick Town Records Collection, Rhode Island Historical Society Manuscripts Division
Newspapers
Newspapers Archive: Rhode Island
Chronicling America: No digitized Rhode Island
Community History Archive Newspapers:
Small Town Newspapers
(No Rhode Island listings)
Narragansett Times 1855–1856,
University of Rhode Island
Digitized Newspapers
(Library of Congress)
Maps
Rhode Island Maps, Library of Congress
Rhode Island Landowner Maps, Library of Congress
Interactive Map of Rhode Island County Formation History, Maps of U.S.
Historical Maps Works: Rhode Island
Manuscripts
Rhode Island Manuscripts, Archive Grid
Rhode Island Manuscripts, Library of Congress
Additional websites
Historical Markers and War Memorials in Rhode Island
Rhode Island Historical Society Publications
Collections of the Rhode Island Historical Society, vol. 1, 1827.
Rhode Island Historical Society Collections, vol. 15, 1922.
Vital Records
Rhode Island Department of State
Marriage registrations, 1853-1920
Death registrations, 1853-1928
Record Sets-State Level
Rhode Island Record Sets
(Ancestry Collections)
Rhode Island Record Sets (Family Search)
Virtual Libraries
State of Rhode Island
The Biographical Cyclopedia of Representative Men of Rhode Island, 1881.
Surname searches
Burlingame: Gorton Burlingame, p. 405; Rev. Maxey Whipple Burlingame, p. 335, 450; Olive Burlingame, p. 363.
Colvin: none.
Ralph: Phebe H. Ralph, p. 372.
Biographical Encyclopaedia of Connecticut and Rhode Island of the Nineteenth Century, H. Clay Williams, 1879.
Biographical History of the Manufacturers and Business Men of Rhode Island, at the Opening of the Twentieth Century, Joseph D. Hall, Jr., 1901.
The Close of the Late Rebellion, in Rhode-Island, 2nd edition, 1842.
Documentary History of Rhode Island, Howard M. Chapin, 1916.
Documentary History of Rhode Island, vol. 2, Howard M. Chapin, 1916.
Historical and Descriptive Sketches of the Counties, Cities and Principal Towns of the Six New England States, vol. 1, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Rev. R. H. Howard, A.M. and Prof. Henry E. Crocker, 1880.
History of Rhode Island, Rev. Edward Peterson, 1853.
History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, vol. 1, 1636–1700, Samuel Greene Arnold, 1859.
History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, vol. 2, 1700–1790, Samuel Greene Arnold, 1860.
Life of Roger Williams, the Founder of the State of Rhode Island, William Gammell, A.M., 1854.
Memoir of Roger Williams, the Founder of the State of Rhode-Island, James D. Knowles, 1834.
The Narragansett Historical Register, James N. Arnold, editor, 1889.
The Narragansett Planters: A Study of Causes, Edward Channing, 1886.
Order Book of the Revolution, Rhode Island, 1778.
Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island : Genealogical Records and Historical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens and of Many of the Old Families, vol. 1, 1908. Index
Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island : Genealogical Records and Historical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens and of Many of the Old Families, vol. 2, 1908.
Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island : Genealogical Records and Historical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens and of Many of the Old Families, vol. 3, 1908. Index
The Rhode Island Historical Magazine, vol. 5, 1884–1885.
Rhode Island Historical Tracts, 2nd series, no. 5, Rhode Island’s Gift to the Nation, Sidney S. Rider, 1897.
A Short History of Rhode Island, George Washington Greene, 1877.
The Spirit of Rhode Island History: A Discourse, Delivered Before the Rhode-Island Historical Society, Hon. Samuel Greene Arnold, 1853.
Kent County
The Early Records of the Town of Warwick, The Librarian of the Rhode Island Historical Society, 1926.