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Some favorite subjects [ edit ]
Some of my favorite wikipedia subjects:
I had been aware of wikipedia for most of its first ten years, but not being a web-surfer, I had virtually no familiarity with the various articles. However, as a school teacher, I spend some of my summers dabbling in genealogy which I've been doing for forty plus years. In the summer of 2010 I stumbled upon the wikipedia article about my ancestor, William Arnold (settler), and saw that it was all wrong. It did cite sources--sources that had been disproven a century ago. I was compelled to rewrite the article, and made my first edit on 16 Aug 2010. Since that time I've written, expanded, edited, and approved a growing number of articles, and enjoy just browsing through the good and featured articles on many topics.
I've lived and worked in Maryland since 1995, but my parents hailed from New England, and this is where most of my ancestors lived after sailing from Europe in the early 1600s.Sarnold17 (talk ) 12:27, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
Stukely Westcott , early Rhode Island settler
Hendrick Jacobs Falkenberg , early New Jersey settler and leading interpreter of native languages in southern NJ
Warren Fales Draper , Deputy Surgeon General of U.S. during WWII and member of Eisenhower's staff (rff on 2/20/11)
John Greene (settler) , co founder of Warwick, Rhode Island
James Barker (Rhode Island official) , deputy governor of Rhode Island, 1678-1679 (upgraded using NEHGR article, 31 Aug 2015)
Rhode Island Royal Charter , the foundation of Rhode Island's government for 180 years
Coddington Cemetery , where six RI colonial governors are buried
Clifton Burying Ground , Newport, RI, where four colonial governors are buried
Samuel Wilbore , signer of Portsmouth Compact
John Porter (settler) , signer of Portsmouth Compact
Randall Holden , signer of Portsmouth Compact , co-founder of Warwick
Thomas Hazard , founding settler of Newport, RI
William Freeborn (settler) , signer of Portsmouth Compact
List of early settlers of Rhode Island
William Dyer (settler) , founding settler of Portsmouth and Newport, RI, husband of Mary Dyer
William Harris (settler) , original proprietor of Providence, RI; antagonist of Roger Williams
Richard Smith (settler) , one of earliest settlers of Rhode Island, built Smith's Castle
Thomas Angell , one of five companions of Roger Williams in establishing the first settlement at Providence
Peter Mawney , Colonel, RI Militia; of one of the few Huguenot families that remained in RI
John Albro (settler) , early settler in Rhode Island, magistrate, and military officer
Susanna Cole , the only survivor of the massacre in which her mother, Anne Hutchinson was killed
John Throckmorton (settler) , early Providence settler; sold land in New Netherland to Anne Hutchinson
Joseph Sheffield , Deputy, Assistant and Attorney General of colony; selected as Rhode Island's agent to England, early 1700's
George Gardiner (settler) , early settler of Portsmouth and Newport
Herodias Gardiner , the wife of three early Rhode Island colonists, including George Gardiner (settler) and John Porter (settler)
Frances Latham , the "Mother of Governors," wife of President Jeremy Clarke , and mother of Governor Walter Clarke
Samuel Wilbur, Jr. , one of seven original purchasers of Pettaquanscutt lands; named in Royal Charter of 1663
Joseph Arnold (Rhode Island farmer) , ancestor of Stephen Arnold Douglas
Stephen A. Douglas ancestry , the ancestry of one of the men defeated by Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 presidential election
James Draper (settler) , founder of Draper family in New England
Warren Fales Draper (publisher) , Massachusetts publisher for 50 years
William Wentworth (elder) , from Alford, Lincolnshire; followed John Wheelwright to New Hampshire
Richard Scott (settler) , early inhabitant of Providence; married a sister of Anne Hutchinson
List of Chief Justices of the Rhode Island Supreme Court
John Whipple (settler) , early Rhode Island settler and founder of Whipple family in the colony
George Lawton (settler) , early settler of Portsmouth, RI
Governor Greene Cemetery , where two RI governors are buried
Impartial Female Humane Society , of which Mary Pickersgill was president
Antinomian Controversy
John Wilson , first minister of Boston church; involved in Antinomian Controversy
Stephen Northup , early Rhode Island settler who built Stephen Northup House
Samuel Cole (settler) , early settler and innkeeper of Boston
Edward Hutchinson (mercer) , father of William Hutchinson (Rhode Island judge)
William Baulston , signer of Portsmouth Compact and an Assistant named in the Rhode Island Royal Charter
Simon Favre , leading interpreter of Muskogean languages in West Florida
John Cole , 12th Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court (9 Sep 2014)
Category:American colonial women
Category:New England Puritan ministers
Articles expanded (mostly from stub/starts)[ edit ]
William Arnold (settler) , father of governor Arnold; founder of family in Rhode Island
Benedict Arnold (governor) , first governor of Rhode Island colony under the Royal Charter of 1663
Troy H. Middleton , U.S. Army corps commander during WWII (Battle of the Bulge, etc.)
William Hutchinson (Rhode Island judge) , early magistrate of Portsmouth, Rhode Island; husband of Anne Hutchinson
John Coggeshall , first president of Colony of Rhode Island (1647)
Jeremy Clarke (governor) , second president of RI colony
John Smith (President of Rhode Island) , third president of RI colony and sixth president of Providence and Warwick
Nicholas Easton , fourth & eighth president, and fourth governor of RI colony
Samuel Gorton , fifth president of RI colony (Providence & Warwick only)
Gregory Dexter , seventh president of RI colony (Providence & Warwick only)
John Sanford (governor) , second governor of Newport and Portsmouth under Coddington Commission
William Brenton , 11th president and second governor of the Rhode Island Colony
William Coddington , many times chief magistrate of Aquidneck Island towns and entire colony
Walter Clarke (governor) , several times governor of the colony, and many years as deputy governor
John Cranston (governor) , colonial RI governor from 1678 to 1680
Henry Bull (governor) , colonial governor from 1685-6, and 1690
John Easton , colonial governor from 1690 to 1695
Samuel Cranston , colonial governor, 1698-1727
Philip Sherman , signer of the Portsmouth Compact
Samuel Ward (American statesman) , colonial RI governor, and delegate to Continental Congress
Joseph Wanton , colonial RI governor, deposed for loyalist sympathies
Nicholas Cooke , last governor of Colony of RI; first governor of State of RI (during American Revolutionary War )
Anne Hutchinson , central figure in New England's Antinomian Controversy
Pardon Tillinghast , many years the minister of the Providence Baptist church
Obadiah Holmes , early Baptist minister of Newport church; whipped in Boston for religious beliefs
Stephen Hopkins (politician) , Colonial governor and signer of Declaration of Independence
Gideon Cornell , first Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court (expanded in collaboration with User:Swampyank )
William Greene (governor) Second Governor of the State of Rhode Island
Mary Young Pickersgill , made the flag that inspired the words to The Star Spangled Banner
John Wheelwright , cohort of Anne Hutchinson during the Antinomian Controversy
Francis Marbury , father of Anne Hutchinson
Edward Hutchinson (captain) , oldest son of Anne Hutchinson
John Cotton (Puritan) , preeminent Puritan minister in New England
Mary Dyer , Quaker martyr from Rhode Island (17 Oct 2014; GA 8 March 2015)
Christopher Holder , Quaker activist who settled in Rhode Island (16 Nov 2014)
John Clarke (Baptist minister) , (edited Dec 2014; loaded 11 March 2015; GA 28 Aug 2015)
Stubs/Starts created on colonial Rhode Island leaders and others[ edit ]
Peleg Sanford
William Coddington, Jr.
Caleb Carr (governor)
Joseph Jenckes (governor)
William Wanton
John Wanton
Richard Ward (governor)
William Greene (colonial governor)
Gideon Wanton
Josias Lyndon
John Coggeshall, Jr. , deputy governor of Rhode Island, 1686 and 1689-90
John Greene, Jr. , deputy governor of Rhode Island, 1690-1700
Henry Tew , deputy governor of Rhode Island, 1714-1715
Jonathan Nichols (Rhode Island politician) , deputy governor of Rhode Island in 1727
Thomas Frye (Rhode Island politician) , deputy governor of Rhode Island, 1727-1729
George Hazard , deputy governor of Rhode Island, 1734-1738
Daniel Abbott , deputy governor of Rhode Island, 1738-1740
Joseph Whipple , wealthy merchant and Colonel of mainland militia
Joseph Whipple, Jr. , merchant and deputy governor of Rhode Island
Joseph Whipple, III , deputy governor of Rhode Island, 1751-1753
William Robinson (Rhode Island official) , deputy governor of Rhode Island
Robert Hazard (Rhode Island politician) , deputy governor of Rhode Island
John Gardner (Rhode Island governor) , deputy governor of Rhode Island
Jonathan Nichols, Jr. , deputy governor of Rhode Island
Elisha Brown , deputy governor of Rhode Island
Darius Sessions , deputy governor of Rhode Island, 1769-1775
Thomas Hopkins (settler) , early RI settler and ancestor of RI governor Stephen Hopkins , signer of the Declaration of Independence
William Greene (lieutenant governor) , Lt. Governor of RI after the Civil War
William Ellery, Sr. , deputy governor of RI (11 March 2015)
Stubs/starts created on American genealogists[ edit ]
Articles significantly edited [ edit ]
Articles insignificantly edited [ edit ]
Articles reviewed for GA status [ edit ]
Articles reviewed for FA status [ edit ]
Expand articles on:
Work: Gorton, Coddington, Ant. Cont., Sally, Brown, Williams, Colony, Holmes? Ward? Charter, Coggeshall, Greene
Create articles on:
George Denison (settler) , early settler of Stonington, CT
Peter Ayrault , leader of French Hugenot settlement in Rhode Island
James Sands, relative of William Hutchinson (Rhode Island judge) , built house for Anne Hutchinson in New Netherland; an early settler of Block Island
Richard Tew , founder of Tew family in Rhode Island; father of Deputy Governor Henry Tew
John Rose (judge) , early judge of Washington County, Rhode Island
Mawney House , only house in Frenchtown, Rhode Island to survive until 20th century
Elm Grove Cemetery , the largest cemetery in North Kingstown, RI
Gilbert Updike , founder of Updike family in RI
Daniel Updike, RI Attorney General
Still a lot more to do...Sarnold17 (talk ) 16:10, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
Places I visit on wikipedia [ edit ]