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Rhode Island County was erected as an original county on 22 June 1703. Its name was changed to Newport County on 16 June 1729.^[1]

Records with the name of the old Rhode Island County are kept in repositories of Newport County.

↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), 602. [FHL Book 973 D27e 2002]. WorldCat entry.

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Dominion of New England · Massachusetts Bay Colony · New Netherland · King's · Plymouth Colony · Providence Plantations · Rhode Island

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Rhode Island State Archives · Rhode Island Historical Society · Newport Historical Society · Brown University Library · Providence Public Library · Archives at the Judicial Records Center · National Archives Northeast Region (Boston) · New England Historic Genealogical Society

v • d • e Rhode Island Migration Routes

Atlantic Coast Ports · Long Island Sound · Narragansett Bay · Taunton River · Blackstone Valley · King's Highway · Old Roebuck Road

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