" Nonetheless, Edwards joined several others as an original fellow or trustee for the chartering of the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations ( the former name for Brown University ), the first Baptist college in the original thirteen colonies, and now one of the Ivy League universities.

The official name of the state, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, derives from the merger of two colonies.

The colonies were: Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts Bay, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina, and Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

Category: Plantations ( settlements or colonies )

Category: Plantations ( settlements or colonies )

Debate in the colonies over the Stamp Act had actually begun in the spring of 1764 when Parliament passed a resolution that contained the assertion, " That, towards further defraying the said Expences, it may be proper to charge certain Stamp Duties in the said Colonies and Plantations.

Category: Plantations ( settlements or colonies )

In 1644, the colonies of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations combined to form the colony, and eventually the State, of " Rhode Island and Providence Plantations ".

The flag of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations is white and consists of a gold anchor in the center ( a symbol for hope ) surrounded by thirteen gold stars ( for the original 13 colonies and Rhode Island's status as the 13th state to ratify the Constitution ).

The same year he was given what he had come for: the Commissioner of Plantations, responsible for overseeing the activities of the colonies, issued an order to Massachusetts to allow the residents of Shawomet and other lands included in the patent to " freely and quietly live and plant " without being disquieted by external pressures.

The notion of self-government became accepted in the colonies although it wasn't totally free from challenges ; in the 1670s, the Lords of Trade and Plantations ( a royal committee regulating mercantile trade in the colonies ) tried to annul the Massachusetts Bay charter, but by 1691, the New England colonies had reinstalled their previous governments.

Category: Plantations ( settlements or colonies )

and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., Governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim Monday, May 22nd, 1961, as National Maritime Day, reminding our citizens that American Merchant ships and American seamen are ready at all times to serve our Nation in the cause of freedom and justice.

Plantations in the area are Nottaway, Belle Grove ( defunct ), and Laurel Ridge among many more.

Plantations are grown by state forestry authorities ( for example, the Forestry Commission in Britain ) and / or the paper and wood industries and other private landowners ( such as Weyerhaeuser, Rayonier and Plum Creek Timber in the United States, Asia Pulp & Paper ( APP ) in Indonesia ).

* Plantations are usually near-or total monocultures.

* Plantations are always young forests in ecological terms.

The other community is overwhelmingly Protestant and are known as unionists or loyalists and are largely descended from Scottish and English settlers who arrived in Ulster during the Plantations of Ireland.

There are vast areas planted with rubber in the early days under the Guthrie Ropel Group, Asiatic Plantations, Harrison Crossfield and various other rubber companies.

Other examples of the period and style are Hammond-Harwood House in Annapolis, Maryland ; and many pre-American Civil War or Antebellum Plantations, such as Westover Plantation and many other James River plantations as well dozens of Antebellum era plantations in the rest of the Old South functioned as the Roman Latifundium villas had.

Plantations of Airén are declining as it is being replaced in Spanish vineyards with various red varieties, such as Tempranillo.

Agriculture branches are Irrigated land ( onions, potatoes, corn, animal feed, garlic and pumpkins ), Plantations ( dates and mangos ) and a big and modern Dairy Farming.

Many plantations around Teluk Intan are owned by big corporations such as Sime Darby and United Plantations ( UP ).

Plantations of this crop are in Barangay Sulit, Sumbakil, Crossing Palkan, Bentung, Lapu, Pagalungan, Lumakil, Rubber and Magsaysay.

Though the government has consistently refused to split the country into multiple time zones, provisions in labour laws such as the Plantations Labour Act, 1951 do allow the Central and State governments to define and set the local time for a particular industrial area.

A great deal of trialling and development by the pioneers of a Paulownia industry in Australia, Joe Virtanen of Australian Paulownia Trees and Plantations and James Lawrence of Toad Gully Growers, has shown there is a lot that can be done toward ensuring a successful plantation ; primarily through selection of top genetics and improving the growing conditions, such as cultivation to increase drainage and adding fertiliser and irrigation.

Plantations were established in areas such as Darjeeling, Assam, and Ceylon.

Those opposed to the Treaty included militant Catholic clergy led by the Papal Nuncio Rinuccini ) who wanted Roman Catholicism established as the state religion in Ireland and Irish lords, such as Owen Roe O ' Neill, who wanted to recover the lands and power their families had lost after the Plantations of Ireland.

Plantations in older Southern states such as South Carolina wore out the soil to such an extent that 42 percent of state residents left the state for plantations with newer soil in the lower South.

Plantations of fast growing species such as bamboo, Eucalyptus ( Eucalyptus teritrornis ), mango and shisham ( Dalbergia sissoo ) have been raised in the district.

In 1659, philosopher Sir Thomas Browne published The Garden of Cyrus subtitled The Quincunciall Lozenge, or Network Plantations of the Ancients where he outlined mystical interconnection of art, nature and the Universe.

The lands of the recusant Roman Catholic elite who refused to take the prescribed oaths were largely confiscated during the Plantations of Ireland and the rights of Roman Catholics to inherit landed property were severely restricted.

Claiborne's first appeal to royal authority in the dispute, which complained both that the lands in the Maryland charter were not really unsettled, as the charter claimed, and that the charter gave so much power to Calvert that it undermined the rights of the settlers, was rejected by the Lords of Foreign Plantations in July 1633.

This included the Plantations of Ireland, in which the lands held by Gaelic Irish clans and Hiberno-Norman dynasties were confiscated and given to Protestant settlers (" Planters ") from England and Scotland.

The lands of Broghill and Rathgogan were purchased by Roger's father Richard Boyle as a part of the Plantations of Munster and Roger subsequently established his residency there after the founding of Charleville.

The lands lay mostly in the east of Ulster, a territory anciently in Hiberno-Norman possession, which was much fought over by the Irish and Scots, and would be used by the English within a decade as a base for their efforts at colonisation of the province ( see Plantations of Ireland # Early Plantations ( 1556 – 1576 )).

This new state contained a sizable Catholic minority, many of whom claimed to be descendants of those dispossessed in the Plantations.

Providence Plantations was the name of the colony founded by Roger Williams in the area now known as the City of Providence.

In 1644, Providence, Portsmouth, and Newport united for their common independence as the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, governed by an elected council and " president ".

One notable effort by " Providence Plantations " ( Providence and Warwick ) during the time when Coddington had separated " Rhode Island " ( Newport and Portsmouth ) from the mainland came on May 18, 1652, when they passed a law which attempted to prevent slavery from taking root in the colony.

When the colony was captured by the British in 1781, Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Kingston chose the mouth of the Demerara River for the establishment of a town which was situated between Plantations Werk-en-rust and Vlissengen.

Many Huguenots settled in Ireland during the Plantations of Ireland, encouraged by an act of parliament for Protestants ' settling in Ireland.

In 1764, Stiles played an influential role in the establishment of the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations ( the original name for Brown University ) by contributing substantially to the drafting of its charter and by serving with thirty-five others-including Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery, Samuel Ward, the Reverend John Gano, the Reverend Isaac Backus, the Reverend Samuel Stillman, and the Reverend James Manning-as a founding fellow or trustee.

Eighteenth century Ireland was a sectarian state, ruled by a small Anglican minority, over both a majority Catholic population ( most of whose ancestors had been dispossessed of land and political power in the 17th century Plantations of Ireland ), as well to the exclusion of Presbyterian and dissenting Christians from high political office.

* 1636-Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations founded by Roger Williams.

The Garden of Cyrus, or The Quincunciall Lozenge, or Network Plantations of the Ancients, naturally, artificially, mystically considered, is a discourse written by Sir Thomas Browne.

Charles II established a Council of Trade on 7 November 1660 followed by a Council of Foreign Plantations on 1 December that year.

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.

Some would argue the land question had a nationalist resonance in Ireland as many Irish Catholics believed that land had been unjustly taken from their ancestors by Protestant English colonists in the 17th century Plantations of Ireland.

Under the Act of Settlement 1652, all Catholic-owned land was confiscated and the Plantations, which had been destroyed by the rebellion of 1641, were restored.

* The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, founded by religious dissenters forced to flee the Massachusetts Bay colony, is widely regarded as the first polity to grant religious freedom to all its citizens.

An early attempt at plantation of the north of Ireland in the 1570s on the east coast of Ulster by Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, had failed ( see Plantations of Ireland ).

Plantations were established by Frederiksborg, but they failed.