While New England’s comfort generally increased in the Cromwell years, Rhode Island suffered from a lagging economy, political divisions and even issues with religious dissidents who worked to destabilize the already unstable colony. Plymouth’s prosperity also waned as trade came to dominate the New England economy. And in the United Colonies, the issue of infant Read more about ECW 31: Frustrations in Rhode Island[…]
Listen on: iTunes Subscribe on Android Stitcher and more Samuel Gorton Samuel Gorton was pretty much an anarchist, and someone who espoused all the most radical religious views of his day. He agitated in every town he went to, until even Roger Williams couldn’t tolerate him. He was getting popular, though, so a group of Rhode Islanders Read more about Massachusetts Bay 17: Samuel Gorton’s heresy[…]
Listen on: iTunes Subscribe on Android Stitcher and more The Saybrook Patent The Earl of Warwick had, in 1631, granted a piece of land in modern Connecticut to a group of his friends and family. He’d lost leadership of the Council for New England as a result of the dubiously legal act, but in 1635, colonists Read more about Episode 7: Connecticut and Rhode Island[…]