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Griffin Greene of Warwick was a mechanical genius, despite having little formal education. His most impressive achievement: he made a water pump that was used to raise a sunken British warship from the bottom of Newport Harbor in 1780. This was before the age of steam engines.
Griffin Greene was born at Warwick on February 20, 1749. He was a cousin of Nathanael Greene,...
The earliest efforts in Rhode Island at what we might call “fisheries management” occurred before the arrival of the first White settlers. The Blackstone River had an enormous run of anadromous fish, upon which the Native Americans depended for food at certain times of the year. In 1853, Reverend David Benedict, in his reminiscences, stated that the Indians and early colonist...
[Note from the editor: The Society of Friends, informally known as the Quakers, in the sixteenth century had a major influence in Rhode Island, particularly in Newport County—the towns of Newport, Portsmouth, Middletown, and Jamestown. Portsmouth had its own small meeting; it was part of the larger Newport meeting.
Quaker numbers began to decline ove...