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William Coddington, who was running the colony, felt constrained to move seven miles south where, with others -- as mentioned above -- he founded Newport.
When, in March, 1640, the two towns were united under Coddington, Gorton claimed the union was irregular and illegally constituted and that it had never been sanctioned by the majority of freeholders.
In 1638, after conferring with Williams, Anne Hutchinson, William Coddington, John Clarke, Philip Sherman, and other religious dissidents settled on Aquidneck Island ( then known as Rhode Island ), which was purchased from the local natives, who called it Pocasset.
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.
The city itself was officially chartered and named in June 1850, laid out by Hannah E. Osborn and Isaac V. Coddington.
Portsmouth Compact memorial at Founder's Brook. Portsmouth was settled in 1638 by a group of religious dissenters from Boston Colony, including Dr. John Clarke, William Coddington, and Anne Hutchinson.
American Vogues creative director Grace Coddington, then a model herself, said " It was the Sixties, it was a raving time, and Bailey was unbelievably good-looking.
Later it was realized that the common ancestors of all spiders had these features ( Symplesiomorphy ), and that the mygalomorphs just retained them, while the closely related araneomorphs evolved new features ( including a cribellum ) ( Coddington & Levy, 1991 ).
Historians Bruce Catton and Glenn Tucker make firm assertions that a sharpshooter was responsible ; Stephen Sears credits volley fire from the 7th Tennessee against the 2nd Wisconsin ; Edwin Coddington cites the sister's letter and finds the sharpshooter theory to be partly credible, but leans towards Sears ' conclusion ; Harry W. Pfanz agrees that the location was behind the 2nd Wisconsin, but make no judgment about the source of the fire.
Conanicut Island was a part of the island territory included in a patent given to William Coddington by the English in 1651.
The second of the plantation colonies on the mainland ( following Anne Hutchinson ’ s 1638 colony of Portsmouth and the 1639 colony of Newport founded by Coddington and Clarke ; both on Aquidneck or Rhode Island ) was Samuel Gorton ’ s Shawomet Purchase of 1642 from the Narragansetts.
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Clarke learned from Roger Williams that Aquidneck Island ( Rhode Island ) was available, and he, William Coddington, and other settlers purchased it from the Narragansetts.
Clarke headed the church in Newport which was Puritan / Separatist congregation, but he had a religious and political falling out with Coddington.
Historian Edwin Coddington, otherwise critical of Slocum's dilatory response, found that it was highly doubtful whether they could have deployed beyond the town in time to mount a counterattack in support of the retreating XI Corps.
With his hostile attitude towards the judges, he was indicted on 14 counts, some of which were calling the magistrates " Just Asses ," calling a freeman in open court " saucy boy and Jack-an-Apes ," and when Governor Coddington said, " all you that own the King take away Gorton and carry him to prison " Gorton replied, " all you that own the King take away Coddington and carry him to prison.
William Coddington was in England during this time, on a mission to remove the island towns of Newport and Portsmouth from the government with Providence and Warwick.
In 1651 Gorton was chosen as President of the colony, but Coddington had been successful in gaining his commission to put the island towns under his governance, so Gorton presided only over the " plantation " towns of Providence and Warwick.
However competition was fierce and markets are known to have failed at Aldford, Coddington, Brereton and Burton before the start of the 14th century.
William Coddington ( c. 1601 – 1 November 1678 ) was an early magistrate of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and later of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, serving as the Judge of Portsmouth, Judge of Newport, Governor of Portsmouth and Newport, Deputy Governor of the entire ( four-town ) colony, and then Governor of the colony.

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Williams facilitated the purchase by William Coddington and others, and in the spring of 1638 the Antinomians began settling at a place called Pocasset, which is now the town of Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
The village is also the basis of a census-designated place ( CDP ), which extends south along the shore of Narragansett Bay into the town of Middletown to encompass the village of Lawtons and the port facilities at Coddington Cove.
Mygalomorphs are capable of spinning at least slightly adhesive silk, and some build elaborate capture webs that approach a meter in diameter ( Coddington & Levy, 1991 ).
It included at times testy exchanges between Wintour and her creative director Grace Coddington.
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* Grave of William Coddington in Newport at Find-a-grave
It was discovered by E. F. Coddington on October 13, 1898 at Mount Hamilton, California.
It was discovered by E. F. Coddington on October 13, 1898 at Mount Hamilton.
It was discovered by E. F. Coddington on October 2, 1899 at Mount Hamilton, California.
The following year a disagreement prompted Coddington and a few other leaders to leave Portsmouth and begin a new settlement at the south end of the island called Newport.
The following year a disagreement prompted Coddington and a few other leaders, including Coggeshall, to leave Portsmouth and begin a new settlement at the south end of the island called Newport.
" Coddington built a transmitter at a farm property he owned on Nations Ford Road in south Charlotte, where it remains today.

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Coddington, who never liked Williams nor liked being subordinated to the new charter government, sailed to England and returned in 1651 with his own patent making him " Governor for Life " over " Rhode Island " and Conanicut.
These first settlers founded Pocasset, but the following spring, in 1639, William Coddington chose Newport, with its excellent harbor, for a new settlement, and some of the settlers followed him there.
* Prebble's contributions are the papers: " Why I do not vote National "; and ( co-authored with Deborah Coddington ) " Lessons of freedom and choice.
In 1651, William Coddington obtained a separate charter from England setting up the Coddington Commission, which made Coddington life governor of the islands of Rhode Island and Conanicut in a federation with Connecticut Colony and Massachusetts Bay Colony.
In November 1651, Clarke traveled to London with Roger Williams to cancel William Coddington's special patent that made Coddington " Governor for Life " over Aquidneck and Conanicut Islands and to secure a new charter for the colony of Rhode Island.
Very unhappy with Williams ' patent, Coddington returned to England where he was eventually able to obtain a commission, separating the island from the mainland towns, and making him governor of the island for an indefinite period.
His presumed father was a prosperous yeoman, and when in Rhode Island the younger Coddington possessed a seal with the initials " R. C .," likely that of his father.
Coddington was elected as a Massachusetts Bay Assistant on 18 March 1629 / 30, while still in England, and sailed to New England the following month with the Winthrop Fleet.
Within a year of the founding of this settlement, there was dissension among the leaders, and Coddington, with three elders and other inhabitants, moved to the south end of the island, establishing the town of Newport.
In 1640 the two towns of Portsmouth and Newport united, and the name of the chief officer was changed to Governor, with Coddington elected to that position.
So unhappy was Coddington over uniting with the mainland towns that in August 1644 he wrote a letter to Governor John Winthrop in Massachusetts, letting it be known that he would rather have an alliance with Massachusetts or Plymouth than with Providence.
Though this did not happen, Coddington managed to resist union with Providence until 1647 when representatives of the four towns ultimately met and adopted the Williams patent of 1643.
On 6 March 1650 Coddington presented his petition for an independent colonial government on Aquidneck Island, free from the claims of Plymouth and free from union with Providence.
A year later, in April 1651, the Council of State of England gave Coddington the commission of a separate government for the island of Aquidneck and for the smaller neighboring island of Conanicut ( later Jamestown, Rhode Island ), with him as governor.
Whether true or not, Coddington was accused of taking sides with the Dutch on matters of colonial trade, and in October 1652 his commission for the island government was revoked.
Finally able to accept the united government of the four towns, Coddington made the following oath in March 1656, " I William Coddington doe hereby submit to ye authoritie of His Highness in this Colonie as it is now united, and that with all my heart.

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