Tiverton, Rhode Island
Location: Tiverton, Newport, Rhode Island
Surnames/tags: One_Place_Studies Rhode_Island
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Goals
This is a One Place Study to collect together in one place everything about the people and events in Tiverton, Rhode Island. The hope is that other researchers like you will join our study to help make it a valuable reference point for people studying lines that cross or intersect.
Task List
- Finish filling in history on the Tiverton page
- Add a timeline on the Tiverton page
- Continue to add people of Tiverton to that category: Tiverton on WikiTree
- Add Tiverton resources on the Tiverton page
Tiverton is a town in Newport County, Rhode Island. It was incorporated by English colonists in 1694 as part of the Province of Massachusetts Bay.[1] It was incorporated as a town of Rhode Island in 1747.[2]
The Tiverton outpost men took part in the Battle of Freetown during the Revolutionary War.[3] Headed by Colonel Joseph Durfee, of Massachusetts; they took a stand and forced the enemy into retreat.[4] Though a house and two mills had been burned,[5] the proud men of Tiverton and of Freetown had prevented further atrocities. The British occupied Rhode Island for three years during the Revolution.[6] Tiverton became a place for New England colonists to flee from them, and muster forces to drive them away. Many men were compelled to join the service in order to gain subsistence for themselves and their families.[7] Richard Durfee, a lifelong resident of Tiverton, was one of the many troubled by the social and economic detruction of the war.[8]
Genealogy Resources
- Newport County Courthouse
- 8 Washington Square
- Newport, RI 02840
- Tiverton Historical Society
- P.O. box 95
- Tiverton, RI 02878
- Tiverton Genealogy Guide
- Tiverton Historical Society on Facebook
- Genealogical and Personal Memoirs
- Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts
- Authors: William Richard Cutter, William Frederick Adams
- on Google Books
- Citation:
- Cutter, William Richard and William Frederick Adams. Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts (NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1910), pg.
- New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial:
- A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making
- of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation, Volume 2
- Editor: William Richard Cutter
- Partially available on Google Books
- Citation:
- Cutter, William Richard. New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation, Volume 2 (NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), pg.
- Revolutionary Defences in Rhode Island
- Author: Edward Field
- on Google Books
- Citation:
- Field, Edward. Revolutionary Defences in Rhode Island (Providence, RI: Preston and Rounds, 1896), pg.
- Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island:
- Genealogical Records of Rhode Island
- Author:
- on Google Books
- Citation:
- Beers, J H & Company. Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island: Genealogical Records of Rhode Island (Chicago, IL: J H Beers & Co, 1908), pg.
- Newport County RI Probate Records
- LDS Genealogy
- List of resources
- 1774 Colonial Census, Town of Tiverton
- New Horizons Genealogical Services
- 1774 Colonial Census
Cemeteries
- Congregational Cemetery
- Tiverton, Newport, Rhode Island
- on Find A Grave
- Hillside Cemetery
- Tiverton, Newport, Rhode Island
- on Find A Grave
- Pleasant View Cemetery
- Old Stone Church Road
- Tiverton, Newport, Rhode Island
- on Find A Grave
- Pocasset Hill Cemetery
- Main Road, Route 138
- Tiverton, Newport, Rhode Island
- on Find A Grave
The People of Tiverton
Sources
- ↑ Source: #Wikipedia
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- ↑ Source: #History of Freetown
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- ↑ Source: #Revolution Remembered 2
- ↑ Source: #Revolution Remembered 2
- Wikipedia Tiverton, Rhode Island on Wikipedia
- History of Freetown Freetown, A History of the Town of Freetown, Massachusetts: with an account of The Old Home Festival, July 30th, 1902 (Fall River, MA: J H Franklin & Company), 217. on Google Books
- Revolution Remembered John C Dann, The Revolution Remembered: Eyewitness Accounts of the War for Independence (Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1980), 29. limited view on Google Books
- Revolution Remembered 2 John C Dann, The Revolution Remembered, 31. limited view on Google Books
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