Tag: Michael Swanson
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Quaker Genes: The Quakening, Part 2, featuring Richard Scott and Christopher Holder
Roger Williams is famously given credit for establishing the first English settlement in Rhode Island. But, according to the 1906 book Richard Scott and His Wife Catharine Marbury by Stephen F. Peckham, it was Scott who created the first settlement in what is now Lonsdale, Rhode Island, on the Blackstone River. Rev. William Blackstone (see…