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CHARTER OF 1663 Stokes Collection, New York Public Library The functioning of government under the Charter of 1644 was short-lived. Many of the principles had been sufficiently altered and modified as to change the com- plexion of the young democracy. Some fancy maneuvering on the part of Codding- ton secured for him a proprictary governorship for life and caused a separation between Portsmouth and Newport on one side and Providence and Warwick on the other. When news reached Rhode Island in 1653 that through the efforts of Roger Williams and John Clarke the Coddington Commission had been repealed, the confederacy was ready to try again. It was apparent that settlers had not only them- selves to consider but were also vitally dependent on political conditions and in- fluences in England. Many of the delays and frustrations grew directly out of up- heavals in English government. On July 8, 1663 Charles IT granted Rhode Island its second charter. This was to be the law of the land on and off until the Revolution. Tt did not automatically bring security in representation but by its liberal grants it gave the colony an op- portunity to develop in other areas of human activity besides the political. New peoples came to the colonyQuakers, Catholics, Jews. Industry began to expand. In 1671 Joseph Jenks mill was begun at Pawtucket Falls and other fami- lies and individuals invested in manufacture. The first wharf built in Providence came in 1680 and this helped to further the shipping industry. In June, 1693 Massa- chusetts established its first postal route between Boston and Rhode Island. The step-child could no longer be ignored. Within the colony communications also were begun and in 1695 the first ferry connecting Jamestown and Newport was runmn. 2
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Circa 1860, Drawn by J. P. Newell Fort Dumpling, Jamestown. Ferry is in foreground. Stokes Collection, New York Public Library 21 Rhode Island Historical Society
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28 i i LSRR S Providence, Rhode Island, 1858-1860. The tall steeple in the left center is on the First Congregational Church, erected in 1816; the twin towers a considerable dis- tance to the left of it belong to the Central Congregational Church, erected in 1852. The two towers at the extreme left belong to the Union Depot, erected in 1848 and destroyed by fire in 1896. From a drawing by George C. Mason
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