Pocasset

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Was an English colony in in North America that later merged with nearby colonies to form Rhode Island.

Establishment

January 1638: In 1637, another group of Massachusetts dissenters purchased land from the Indians on Aquidneck Island, which was called Rhode Island at the time, and they established a settlement called Pocasset. The group included William Coddington, John Clarke, and Anne and William Hutchinson, among others. That settlement, however, quickly split into two separate settlements. Samuel Gorton and others remained to establish the settlement of Portsmouth (which formerly was Pocasset).

Chronology

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1. Royal Charter of 1663

Was Royal Charter that united four English settlements together into the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

July 1663: The Royal Charter of 1663 consolidated four settlements into a single entity known as the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

Disestablishment

July 1663: The Royal Charter of 1663 consolidated four settlements into a single entity known as the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.