Current As Of 10 December 1996

Historical Resources Branch

US ARMY CENTER OF MILITARY HISTORY

The Continental Army

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Rhode Island


I. Manuscripts.

Rhode Island Historical Society. (Providence).

Nathanael Greene Papers.

Jeremiah Olney Papers.

Revolutionary Correspondence.

Ward Manuscripts.

Rhode Island State Archives. (Providence).

Revolutionary War Papers.

II. Published Sources.

Angell, Israel. Diary of Colonel Israel Angell Commanding the Second Rhode Island Continental Regiment during the American Revolution 1778-1781. Edited by Edward Field. Providence: Preston and Rounds, 1899.

Archambault, Alan H. "The Second Rhode Island Regiment of the Continental Line 1775-1777." Military Collector and Historian, 28 (Fall 1976), p. 133.

-----, and Marko Zlatich. "Rhode Island Regiment, 1781-1783." Military Collector and Historian, 36 (Summer 1984), p. 77.

Bartlett, John Russell, editor. Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in New England. 9 vols. Providence: Various publishers, 1856-1865.

Brown, Anne S. K. "Rhode Island Uniforms in the Revolution." Military Collector and Historian, 10 (Spring 1958), pp. 1-10.

Buxton, Antha C. "Sketches of Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in Middletown Springs, Vermont." Magazine of History, 16 (January 1913), pp. 16-23.

Cohen, Joel A. "Lexington and Concord: Rhode Island Reacts." Rhode Island History, 26 (October 1967), pp. 97-102.

-----. "Democracy in Revolutionary Rhode Island: A Statistical Analysis." Rhode Island History, 29 (February-May 1970), pp. 3-16.

Conlon, Noel P. "Rhode Island Negroes in the Revolution: A Bibliography." Rhode Island History, 29 (February-May 1970), pp. 52-53.

Cowell, Benjamin. Spirit of '76 in Rhode Island: or Sketches of the Efforts of the Government and People in the War of the Revolution. Boston: A. J. Wright, 1850.

Crane, Elaine Forman. A Dependent People: Newport, Rhode Island, in the Revolutionary Era. New York: Fordham University Press, 1985.

Cullum, George W. "Defenses of Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island." Magazine of American History, 11 (June 1884), pp. 465-496.

David, Ebenezer. A Rhode Island Chaplain in the Revolution: Letters of Ebenezer David to Nicholas Brown 1775-1778. Edited by Jeanette D. Black and William Greene Roelker. Providence: Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati, 1949.

Field, Edward. Revolutionary Defences in Rhode Island; An Historical Account of the Fortifications and Beacons Erected During the American Revolution, with Muster Rolls of the Companies Stationed Along the Shores of Narragansett Bay. Providence: Preston and Rounds, 1896.

Fisher, John. "John Fisher's Reminiscences of the Revolution." Edited by H. W. Kimball. Magazine of History, 13 (April 1911), pp. 184-186.

Gardiner, Asa B. The Rhode Island Line in the Continental Army and Its Society of Cincinnati. Providence: Providence Press Co., 1878.

Greene, Christopher. "Orderly Book October 11, 1777, to November 20, 1777." New Jersey Society of Pennsylvania Yearbook, 1928.

Greene, Lorenzo J. "Some Observations on the Black Regiment of Rhode Island in the American Revolution." Journal of Negro History, 37 (April 1952), pp. 142-172.

Greenman, Jeremiah. Diary of a Common Soldier in the American Revolution, 1775-1783: An Annotated Edition of the Military Journal of Jeremiah Greenman. Edited by Robert C. Bray and Paul E. Bushnell. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1978.

Hitchcock, Dan. "So Few the Brave (The Second Rhode Island 1777-1781)." Military Collector and Historian, 30 (Spring 1978), pp. 18-22.

Kihn, Phyllis. "William Blodgett, Map Maker, 1754-1809." Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin, 27 (April 1962), pp. 33-50.

Little, P. F. Fragmentary Sketches & Incidents, In Little Compton & Tiverton, during the Revolution, and War of 1812. Little Compton: Privately printed, 1880.

Lovell, Louise Lewis. Israel Angell, Colonel of the 2nd Rhode Island Regiment. [New York]: Knickerbocker Press, 1921.

Miller, William T[urner]. "Revolutionary Letters." Edited by G. M. Fessenden. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 11 (April 1857), pp. 136-140.

Murray, Thomas Hamilton. Irish Rhode Islanders in the American Revolution. Providence: American-Irish Historical Society, 1903.

Rhode Island Historical Society Collections , 7 (1867).

Rider, Sidney S. Historical Inquiry Concerning the Attempt to Raise a Regiment of Slaves by Rhode Island During the War of the Revolution. Providence: S. S. Rider, 1880.

Smith, John. "Sergeant John Smith's Diary of 1776. Edited by Louise Rau. Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 20 (September 1933), pp. 247-270.

Smith, Joseph J., compiler. Civil and Military List of Rhode Island. 2 vols. Providence: Preston and Rounds, 1900-1901.

Smith, Samuel. Memoirs of Samuel Smith, a Soldier of the Revolution, 1776-1786. Written by Himself. Edited by Charles I. Bushnell. New York: Privately printed, 1860. [Originally published Middleborough, Mass.: Privately printed, 1853.]

Tuckerman, Henry T. The Life of Silas Talbot, a Commodore in the Navy of the United States. New York: J. C. Riker, 1850.

Walker, Anthony. So Few The Brave (Rhode Island Continentals 1775-1783). Newport: Seafield Press, 1981.

Ward, John. A Memoir of Lieut.-Col. Samuel Ward, First Rhode Island Regiment, Army of the American Revolution; with a Genealogy of the Ward Family. New York: Privately printed, 1875. [Reprinted from New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 6 (July 1875), pp. 113-128.]

Williams, Catherine R. Biography of Revolutionary Heroes; Containing the Life of Brigadier Gen. William Barton, and Also, of Captain Stephen Olney. New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1839.

Withey, Lynne. Urban Growth in Colonial Rhode Island: Newport and Providence in the Eighteenth Century. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1984.