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The Rhode Island city of Providence has a nearly four hundred-year history integral to that of the United States, including significance in the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the American Revolutionary War with the provision of leadership and fighting strength, the quartering of troops, and the supplement of goods to residents by circumventing the blockade of Newport. The city is also notedAffair|''Gaspée'' Affair]]. Additionally, Providence is notable for economic shifts from trading == Founding and colonial era == The area which is now Providence was first settled in June 1636 by prominent Baptist Roger Williams and other religious exiles. It was one of the original Thirteen Colonies of the United States. Williams had been exiled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his outspoken beliefs concerning distinction of state government and religion: :— Roger Williams〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Roger Williams quotes )〕 Williams secured a title from the Narragansett natives around this time and gave the city its present name. Williams also cultivated Providence Plantations as a refuge for persecuted religious dissenters, especially but not exclusively Baptists, as he himself had been exiled from Massachusetts. Baptist minister Chad Brown was a leading 17th century land owner in Providence and ancestor to the prominent Brown family and Nicholas Brown, Jr. for whom Brown University was later named. Providence Plantations was an agricultural and fishing community, though its lands were difficult to farm, and its borders were disputed with Connecticut and Massachusetts.〔 During King Philip's War between the Wampanoag leader Metacomet (King Philip) and the English Colonists, the town of Providence was destroyed by a Native American coalition on March 29, 1676. Providence was one of two major English settlements burned to the ground - the other was Springfield, Massachusetts.〔Lepore, xxvii.〕 After the town was rebuilt, the economy expanded into more industrial and commercial activity. The outer lands of Providence Plantations, extending to the Massachusetts and Connecticut borders, were incorporated as Scituate, Glocester, and Smithfield in 1731.〔 Later, Cranston, Johnston, and North Providence would also be carved out of Providence's municipal territory.〔 By the 1760s, the population of the remaining urban core reached 4,000.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「History of Providence, Rhode Island」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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