Sources & Notes

  • Arnold, James N., editor Vital Record of Rhode Island. 1636-1850; First Series. Births, Marriages and Deaths. A Family Register for the People. Vol. 2: Providence County. Narragansett Historical Publishing Co., Providence, RI, 1892; avail @ archive.org
  • Arnold, James N., editor Vital Record of Rhode Island. 1636-1850; First Series. Births, Marriages and Deaths. A Family Register for the People. Vol. 3: Providence County. Narragansett Historical Publishing Co., Providence, RI, 1892
  • Arnold, James N., editor Vital Record of Rhode Island. 1636-1850; First Series. Births, Marriages and Deaths. A Family Register for the People. Vol. 4: Newport County. Narragansett Historical Publishing Co., Providence, RI, 1893; avail. @ archive.org
  • Arnold, James N., editor Vital Record of Rhode Island. 1636-1850; First Series. Births, Marriages and Deaths. A Family Register for the People. Vol. 5: Washington County. Narragansett Historical Publishing Co., Providence, RI, 1894; avail. @ archive.org
  • Arnold, James N., editor Vital Record of Rhode Island. 1636-1850; First Series. Births, Marriages and Deaths. A Family Register for the People. Vol. 12: Revolutionary Rolls and Newspapers. Narragansett Historical Publishing Co., Providence, RI, 1893; avail. @ archive.org
  • Arnold, James N., editor Vital Record of Rehoboth, 1642-1895; Marriages, Intentions, Births, Deaths. with supplement containing the record of 1896, colonial returns, lists of the early settlers, purchasers, freemen, inhabitants, the soldiers serving in Philip’s war and the revolution. Narragansett Historical Publishing Co., Providence, RI, 1897; avail. @ archive.org
  • Babcock, Stephen, Babcock Genealogy, Eaton & Mains, New York, 1903. avail @ archive.org
  • Colket, Meredith B., Jr. Founders of Early American Families: Emigrants from Europe, 1607-1657. Cleveland: General Court of the Order of Founders and Patriots of America, 1975.
  • De Forest, Louis E., Babcock and Allied Families; The deForest Publishing Company, 1928. avail. at archive.org
  • Denison, Rev. Frederic, Westerly and its Witnesses, 1626-1876; Providence 1878. avail at archive.org
  • Dexter, Franklin B., editor Ancient Town Records, vol 1, New Haven Town Records 1649-1662, New Haven Colony Historical Society, 1917; avail. @ archive.org
  • Dexter, Franklin B., editor Ancient Town Records, vol 2, New Haven Town Records 1662-1684, New Haven Colony Historical Society, 1919; avail. @ archive.org
  • Dobson, David. Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations, 1650-1775. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1984. 239p.
  • Jones, Henry Z., The Palatine Families of New York, A Study of the Geman Immigrants who arrived in Colonial New York in 1710; Universal City, CA, 1985
  • Peck, Ira B., A Genealogical History of the Descendants of Joseph Peck, who emigrated with his family to this country in 1638; Alfred Mudge & Son, Boston, 1868. avail. @ archive.org
  • Virkus, Frederick A., editor. Immigrant Ancestors: A List of 2,500 Immigrants to America before 1750. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1964. 75p. Repr. 1986.

Arnold’s Vital Record of Rhode Island

There are 21 volumes to James Newell Arnold’s Vital Record of Rhode Island, unfortunately I don’t think there is a single index that spans the entire work, but you can search the creator: field @ archive.org to see the list of available volumes

Colonial Period Dates

The following summarized from the Conn. State Library, History & Genealogy Reference

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Interpreting Records

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