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Gould, Johnson, and Stoddard family papers

Collected by a granddaughter of John Stanton and Hannah Wright Gould, these papers include a Radclyffe (Radcliffe) family indenture, and estate settlement documents and other papers (1687-1747) of the Dyer, Slocum, and Gould families of Newport, Rhode Island; a letter from Father Sébastien Rasles (Rale) concerning the Abnaki Indians and the Protestant missionary to the Indians, the Reverend Joseph Baxter; statistics on the population of Rhode Island together with the quantity of arms and ammunition in private hands, prepared by Governor Stephen Hopkins (1756); a letter (December 1764) to an unnamed person from Charles Bowler, collector of His Majesty's revenues in Newport, protesting Governor Hopkins' defense of the rights of the colonies; a compilation of silver prices from 1700 to 1764 "from the Boston Records," and a copy of a report (ca.1777) on the trial of the Rev. William Dodd at Old Bailey, London; a copy of a petition (October 1777) signed by John Townsend and Gideon Wanton and directed to Sir Peter Parker, admiral of the British navy, concerning their confinement on a prison ship in Newport Harbor; other Townsend family papers; an undated letter from Daniel Holloway, a Newport seafarer; also, printed copies of the Articles of the United Fire Club of Newport with signatures added (1783) and the act to incorporate Newport as a city (1784). Also, the journal (1812) of Thomas Wright, Mrs. Stoddard's great-grandfather, kept during his return to England.

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