The Rhode Island based brewery, Narragansett Brewing Company, also uses his likeness on their fall seasonal beer, Fest Lager.

Genesee brews for Blue Point Brewing Company, Seven Kings Brewery, and Narragansett Brewing Company.

Providence finally managed to get Gorton out of the town, and he and some friends bought land at Pawtuxet on the west side of Narragansett Bay, five miles south but still within the jurisdiction of the Providence colony.

It is known that at least five towns ( Barrington, Bristol, Narragansett, Newport and Westerly ) place some value on some boats for tax purposes.

The assessors' association, meeting at Narragansett in September 1960, devoted its session to a discussion of the boat problem.

Leading firms that arranged their own financing included Speidel Corporation, Cornell-Dubilier, Photek, Inc. Division of Textron, Narragansett Gray Iron Foundry, W. R. Cobb Company, and Mays Manufacturing Company.

The Narragansett Race Track grounds is one assembly point, he said, and a drive-in theater in Seekonk would be another.

One house was without power for about half an hour, a Narragansett Electric Co. spokesman said.

The jurisdiction of New York actually extends east at Fishers Island, where New York shares a sea border with Rhode Island dividing Narragansett Bay.

Machines using linear pneumatic resistance were common around 1900-one of the most popular was the Narragansett hydraulic rower, manufactured in Rhode Island from around 1900-1960.

Manatees have been spotted as far north as Cape Cod, and as recently as the late summer of 2006, one was seen in New York City and Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay, as cited in The Boston Globe.

Rhode Island colony was founded near present-day Newport, on what is now commonly called Aquidneck Island, the largest of several islands in Narragansett Bay.

* The explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano, in 1524 noted the presence of an island near the mouth of Narragansett Bay, which he likened to the Greek island of Rhodes.

Eastern Rhode Island contains the lowlands of the Narragansett Bay, while Western Rhode Island forms part of the New England Upland.

Narragansett Bay is a major feature of the state's topography.

In 1636, Roger Williams, after being banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his religious views, settled at the tip of Narragansett Bay, on land granted to him by the Narragansett and Pequot tribes.

During King Philip's War ( 1675 – 1676 ), a force of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Plymouth militia under General Josiah Winslow invaded and destroyed the fortified Narragansett Indian village in the Great Swamp in what is now South Kingstown, Rhode Island, on December 19, 1675.

The Narragansett also invaded and burnt down several of the cities of Rhode Island, including Providence, although they allowed the population to leave first.

Approximately at 2AM on June 10, 1772, a band of Providence residents attacked and subsequently burned to the waterline, the grounded HMS Gaspee, for harassing shipping within Narragansett Bay.

* May 26-A fire aboard the United States aircraft carrier USS Bennington off Narragansett Bay kills 103 crewmen.

* August 25 – The Great Colonial Hurricane strikes Narragansett Bay as a possible Category 3 hurricane, killing over 46 people.

* May 26 – Pequot War: A band of English settlers under Captain John Mason, and their Narragansett and Mohegan allies, set fire to a fortified Pequot village near the Mystic River in what is later known as the Mystic massacre.

* June 14 – June 25 – Colonial authorities of Rhode Island, Plymouth, and Massachusetts attempt a negotiation with Metacomet ( King Philip ), leader of the Wampanoags, and seek guarantees of fidelity from the Nipmuck and Narragansett tribes.

* July 15 – The Narragansett tribe signs a peace treaty with Connecticut.

* Sabin Point, Narragansett Bay ( 1885 ; Oil on canvas ; Gardner House, Providence, Rhode Island )

A volume of his letters is included in the Narragansett Club edition of Williams's Works ( 7 vols., Providence, 1866 – 74 ), and a volume was edited by J. R. Bartlett ( 1882 ).

While I-95 in Rhode Island takes a diagonal path to Providence, U. S. 1 continues east along the coast through Westerly to Wakefield, where it turns north and follows Narragansett Bay.

This event caused the other three towns on Narragansett Bay ( Providence, Portsmouth, and Newport ) to unite and get a royal charter allowing the towns on Narragansett Bay to form the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

Ward led the wealth and conservatism of Newport, Narragansett, and Kent County, while Hopkins represented the growing strength of Providence and Bristol Counties.

In 1746, in the final settlement of a long colonial boundary dispute between Rhode Island and Massachusetts, Tiverton was annexed to Rhode Island by Royal Decree ( together with its fellow towns along the eastern shore of Narragansett Bay, Barrington, Bristol and Little Compton, and the town of Cumberland, to the north of Providence ).

1654 ), on the Connecticut River and towns such as Providence, Rhode Island, on Narragansett Bay ( est.

The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, settled mostly by Puritan dissidents, tried to remain mostly neutral, but like the Narragansett they were dragged inexorably into the conflict.

Historically the Narragansett were one of the leading tribes of New England, controlling the west of Narragansett Bay in present-day Rhode Island, and also portions of Connecticut and eastern Massachusetts, from the Providence River on the northeast to Pawcatuck River on the southwest.

In 1636, the Narragansett sachems ( leaders ), Canonicus and Miantonomi, sold the land that became Providence to Roger Williams.

A mixed force of Mohegan and Connecticut militia captured Canonchet, the chief sachem of the Narragansett, a few days after the destruction of Providence and delivered him to Connecticut authorities.

Providence, at the head of the Narragansett Bay

Narragansett Bay is a ria that consists of a series of flooded river valleys formed of dropped crustal blocks in a horst and graben system that is slowly subsiding between a still-shifting fault system ; however, the estuary system is vast compared to the present flow of the four small rivers that enter the bay, in the northeast, the Taunton River and in the northwest, the Providence and Seekonk Rivers, along with the Pawtuxet River from the west.

He made contact with the Narragansett sachem called Canonicus by the Europeans, and set up a trading post on the site of Providence.

Providence from the Providence River at the head of Narragansett Bay

Because of opposition from William Coddington on " Rhode Island ", it took Williams until 1647 to get the four towns around Narragansett Bay to unite under a single government, and liberty of conscience was again proclaimed.

Effects of Menhaden Predation on Plankton Populations in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island Author.

The English word " squash " derives from askutasquash ( a green thing eaten raw ), a word from the Narragansett language, which was documented by Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, in his 1643 publication A Key Into the Language of America.

Occupying the coastal area between the Niantic tribe of the Niantic River of present-day Connecticut and the Wecapaug River, and the Narragansett in what is now western Rhode Island, the Pequot numbered some 16, 000 persons in the most densely inhabited portion of southern New England.

* Scarborough Beach ( Rhode Island ) in Narragansett, Rhode Island

The Narragansett, who lived west of what is now known as Narragansett Bay in present day Rhode Island, were one of the more powerful tribes in the region.

In 2001, Moby Dick Council suffered a similar fate, and merged with the Narragansett Council of Rhode Island, much to the chagrin of many old-timers of both the smaller councils and the larger Moby Dick Council.

Narragansett Council is based in Rhode Island, but has 3 service areas that serve communities in Massachusetts:

It was considered in their best interest to dissolve and merge with another council, and they did so, merging with Rhode Island's Narragansett Council.

Established in 1730 as Narragansett Number 5 for the benefit of soldiers who fought against the Narragansett Indians in Rhode Island, it was regranted first as Souhegan East, then as Bedford in 1750.