The following book list is in alphabetical order by author.
Books with no author are listed first.
n.d. = no date
n.p. = no publisher or no place

  • And this our life: Nature's classroom. Tilton, NH: Sant Bani Press, 1977.
  • Annual report of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1970.
  • Early American school books. Maynard, Mass.: Chandler Press, 1988.
  • Exercises at the dedication of the Roger Williams monument. [n.p.]: Rhode Island Roger Williams Memorial Association, 1939.
  • Historic and architectural resources of Charlestown, Rhode Island. [n.p.]: Rhode Island Historic Preservation Commission, 1981.
  • Instructive and amusing: Essays on toys, games, and education in New England. Essex, Conn.: Institute Historical Collection, 1987.
  • Legacy of Roger Williams: Study guide. [n.p.]: Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities, 1983.
  • Log cabin shop. Lodi, Ohio: [n.p.], 1993.
  • Rhode Island in print. [n.p.]: Rhode Island Publishing Society, [n.d.]. Sixth record book of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. [n.p.]: Charles G. Cowan Associates, 1988.
  • Tercentenary Providence and Rhode Island, 1636-1936: Official chronicle and tribute book. Providence: George D. Hall Inc., 1936.
  • The American House: Styles of architecture Coloring Book. New York: Dover Publications, 1983.
  • The champion of the seas times. Mystic, Conn.: Marine Historical Assoc., 1952.
  • The colonial revival in Rhode Island, 1890-1940. Providence: Providence Preservation Society, 1989.
  • The legacy of Roger Williams. [n.p.]: Rhode Island Commission for the Humanities, [n.d.].
  • This is Rhode Island. Providence: Rhode Island Development Council, [n.d.].

  • Agger, Lee. Women of New England, Volume 1. Portland, Maine: Gannett Books, 1986.
  • Anderson, Virginia B. Maritime Mystic. Mystic, Conn.: Marine Historical Association [Publication no. 39], 1962.
  • Arelion, Jo-Ann (artwork). Welcome to Rhode Island State House. Providence: Office of the Secretary of State, 1995.
  • Arnold, Samuel Greene, 1821-1880. History of the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations. Providence: Preston & Rounds, 1894.
  • Atwater, Mary Meigs. The shuttle-craft book of American hand-weaving. New York: The Macmillan company, 1931.
  • Aurand, A. Monroe (Ammon Monroe), 1895-1956. Little known facts about bundling in the new world, the old-fashioned custom of lovers or travelers sleeping in the same bed, usually without the formality of undressing. Harrisburg, Penn.: The Aurand press, 1941.
  • Barnes, Bertha. Antique cookbook. Jefferson City, Missouri: Modern Litho Print, 1974.
  • Baskett, Mickey. Great paper quilling. New York: Sterling Publishing Co., 1999.
  • Berlitz, Maximilian Delphinus, 1852-1921. Methode Berlitz pour l'enseignment des langues modernes. New York: En vente chez Berlitz & cie; Boston C. Schoenhof, 1889.
  • Bicknell, Thomas Williams, 1834-1925. Story of Dr. John Clarke, the founder of the first free commonwealth of the world on the basis of "full liberty in religious concernments." Providence: Published by the author, 1915.
  • Blanchard, Fessenden Seaver, 1888-. Block Island to Nantucket; Narragansett and Buzzards Bays, Block Island, Vineyard, and Nantucket Sounds. Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand, 1961.
  • Bloom, Sol, 1870-1949. The story of the Constitution. Washington: United States Constitution sesquicentennial commission, 1937.
  • Bond, C. Lawrence. Native names of New England towns and villages: translating 145 names derived from Native American words. Topsfield, Mass.: C.L. Bond, 1991.
  • Bonfanti, Leo. Strange beliefs, customs, and superstitions of New England. Wakefield, Mass.: Pride Publishing Inc., 1980.
  • Bourne, Russell. The Red King's rebellion: racial politics in New England, 1675-1678. New York: Atheneum, 1990.
  • Bridenbaugh, Carl. Fat mutton and liberty of conscience; society in Rhode Island, 1636-1690. Providence: Brown University Press, 1974.
  • Bridenbaugh, Carl. Silas Downer, forgotten patriot: his life and writings. Providence: Rhode Island Bicentennial Foundation [Publication No. 1], 1974.
  • Bridenbaugh, Carl. The spirit of '76: the growth of American patriotism before independence. New York: Oxford University Press, 1975.
  • Bruce, Elizabeth St. John. The Plimoth colony cook book. Plymouth: Plymouth Antiquarian Society, 1973.
  • Butcher-Younghans, Sherry. Historic house museums: A practical handbook for their care, preservation, & management. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

  • Cady, John Hutchins, 1881-. Highroads and byroads of Providence. Providence: Akerman-Standard Press, 1948.
  • Cady, John Hutchins, 1881-. The civic and architectural development of Providence, 1636-1950. Providence: [Axerman Standard Press], 1957.
  • Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, 1851-1935. John Brown. Boston: Small Maynard & company, 1899.
  • Chapin, Howard M., 1887-1940. Report upon the burial place of Roger Williams. Providence: [n.p.], 1918.
  • Chapin, Howard M., 1887-1940. Roger Williams and the King's colors. Providence: E.L. Freeman company, 1928.
  • Church, Benjamin, 1639-1718. Diary of King Philip's War, 1675-76. Chester, Conn.: Pequot Press for the Little Compton Historical Society, 1975.
  • Clark, Thera Harris. Homemakers life in 1772. [n.p.]: [n.p.], 1975.
  • Clauson, James Earl, 1873-1937. These plantations. Providence: Roger Williams Press E. A. Johnson company, 1937.
  • Clough, Benjamin Crocker, 1888-. The American imagination at work: tall tales and folk tales. New York: A. A. Knopf, 1947.
  • Codman, John, 1898-. Preservation of historic districts by architectural control. Chicago, IL: American Society of Planning Officials, 1956.
  • Coffin, Marie Marden, 1900-1976. The history of Nantucket Island; a bibliography of source material with index and inventory. Nantucket Island, Mass.: Nantucket Historical Trust, 1970.
  • Cohen, Hal L. Official guide to silver & silverplate. New York: House of Collectibles, 1974.
  • Coleman, Peter J. The transformation of Rhode Island, 1790-1860. Providence: Brown University Press, 1963.
  • Conley, Patrick T. North Kingstown: an historical sketch. Providence: Rhode Island Publications Society, 1976.
  • Conley, Patrick T. North Kingstown: an historical sketch. Providence: Rhode Island Publications Society, 1976.
  • Conley, Patrick. Rhode Island's road to liberty. Providence: Bicentennial Foundation, 1987.
  • Corbett, Scott. Rhode Island. New York: Coward-McCann States of the Nation Series 13, 1969.
  • Covey, Cyclone. The gentle radical; a biography of Roger Williams. New York: Macmillan, 1966.
  • Crolius, Peter C. The Rhode Island scene. Wickford, R.I.: Dutch Island Press, 1986.
  • Crolius, Peter C. Wickford anthology. Wickford, R.I.: Dutch Island Press, 1985.

  • Davis, H. F. An account of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians. Providence: Pafnuty Publishing, [n.d.].
  • De Jonge, Eric, comp. Country things, from the pages of the magazine Antiques. Princeton, NJ: Pyne Press, 1973.
  • Deetz, James. In small things forgotten: the archaeology of early American life. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1977.
  • Delabarre, Edmund Burke, 1863-. Dighton rock; a study of the written rocks of New England with 108 illustrations from rare prints, photographs, drawings, charts, and maps. New York: W. Neale, 1928.
  • Dickie, Margaret, 1935-. Becoming a city; from fishing village to manufacturing center. New York: Harcourt Brace & World, 1968.
  • Dolan, J. R. The Yankee peddlers of early America. New York: C. N. Potter, 1964.
  • Doten, Dana. The art of bundling. Weston, Vt.: The Countryman press, 1938.
  • Downing, Antoinette Forrester. Early homes of Rhode Island. Richmond, Va: Garrett & Massie Inc., 1937.
  • Drake, Samuel Adams. A book of New England legends and folklore. [n.p.]: Castle Books, 1993.
  • Drepperd, Carl William, 1898-1956. The primer of American antiques. Garden City, NY: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc., 1944.
  • Dunwell, Steve. Rhode Island: a scenic discovery. Providence: Foremost Publishers, 1976.


  • Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911. In old Narragansett; romances and realities. New York: C. Scribner's sons, 1898.
  • Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911. The Sabbath in Puritan New England. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1891.
  • Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911. Two centuries of costume in America, 1620-1820. Rutland, VT: C. E. Tuttle Co., 1971.
  • Eaton, Allen Hendershott, 1878-. Handicrafts of the Southern highlands. New York: Russell Sage, 1937.
  • Eschenbacher, Herman F. The University of Rhode Island; a history of land-grant education in Rhode Island. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1967.

  • Federico, Jean Taylor, 1940-. Clues to American furniture. Washington: Starrhill Press, 1988.
  • Feldman, Annette. Handmade lace & patterns. New York: Harper & Row, 1975.
  • Fennelly, Catherine, 1918-. The garb of country New Englanders, 1790-1840: costumes at Old Sturbridge Village. Sturbridge, Mass.: Old Sturbridge Village, Old Sturbridge Village booklet series; 22, 1966.
  • Fink, Lisa C. Providence industrial sites. Providence: Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission Statewide historical preservation report P-P-6, 1981.
  • Fish, Joseph, 1706-1781. Old light on separate ways: the Narragansett diary of Joseph Fish, 1765-1776. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1982.
  • Fitts, Robert K. Inventing New England's slave paradise: Master/slave relations in eighteenth-century Narragansett, Rhode Island. Providence: Brown University Department of Antrhopology, 1995.
  • Frohman, Louis H. A pictorial guide to American gardens. New York: Crown Publishers, 1960.

  • Garden Club of America. Bulletin of the Garden Club of America. Lake Forest, Ill.: The Club, 1955.
  • Gardiner, George W. Lafayette, Rhode Island. Pawtucket, RI: J.C. Hall Co., 1949.
  • Gaupp, Polley. A sandwich sampler, being an alphabet salmungundi of the Sundry Sandwich Glass. [n.p.]: [n.p.], [n.d.].
  • Gleeson, Paul F. Rhode Island; the development of a democracy. Providence: Rhode Island State Board of Education, 1957.
  • Goodman, Jedidiah. Founding fathers sketchbook. [n.p.]: Geiger Bros., 1973.
  • Goodyear, Frank Henry, Jr., 1944-. American paintings in the Rhode Island Historical Society. Providence: Rhode Island Historical Society, 1974.
  • Gorton, Samuel, 1592/3-1677. Samuel Gorton's letter to Lord Hyde in behalf of the Narragansett sachems. Providence: E.L. Freeman company [Publication no. 23], 1930.
  • Greene, Jeffrey P. American furniture of the 18th century. Newtown, Conn.: Taunton Press, 1996.
  • Greene, Welcome Arnold. The Providence Plantations for two hundred and fifty years. Providence: J.A. & R.A. Reid, 1886.
  • Griswold, Frances Irene (Burge) Smith, Mrs., 1826-1900. Old Wickford, "the Venice of America." Milwaukee: The Young churchman co., 1900.

  • Haley, John Williams. The Old stone bank history of Rhode Island, Volume I. Providence: Haley and Sykes Co., 1929.
  • Haley, John Williams. The Old stone bank history of Rhode Island, Volume II. Providence: Haley and Sykes Co., 1931.
  • Haley, John Williams. The Old stone bank history of Rhode Island, Volume III. Providence: Haley and Sykes Co., 1939.
  • Haley, John Williams. The Old stone bank history of Rhode Island, Volume IV. Providence: Haley and Sykes Co., 1944.
  • Halladay, Allan. In perspective. Reprinted from the Providence journal and the Evening bulletin. Providence: Halladay, 1949.
  • Harris, Louise. The flag over the schoolhouse. Providence: C. A. Stephens Collection Brown University, 1971.
  • Hart, Philomena. The sideshow. Providence: Roger Williams Press, 1941.
  • Hawke, David Freeman. Everyday life in early America. New York: Harper & Row, 1988.
  • Hawke, David Freeman. Everyday life in early America. New York: Harper & Row 2nd printing, 1988.
  • Hawke, David Freeman. Everyday life in early America. New York: Harper & Row 5th printing, 1988.
  • Haynes, Williams, 1886-1960. Captain John Gallop: master mariner and Indian trader. Stonington, Conn.: Pequot Press, 1964.
  • Hedges, James Blaine, 1894-1965. The Browns of Providence Plantations. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press Series: Studies in economic history, 1952.
  • Hedges, James Blaine, 1894-1965. The Browns of Providence Plantations. Providence: Brown University Press, 1968.
  • Helen W. Allan, et al. Clinton County: a pictorial history. Norfolk: Donning Co., 1988.
  • Henwood, James N. J. A short haul to the bay; a history of the Narragansett Pier Railroad. Washington: U.S. Geological Survey, 1905.
  • Hinckley, Anita W., 1884-. Wickford memories. Boston: Branden Press, 1972.
  • Hinckley, F. Lewis. A directory of antique furniture. New York: Crown Publishers, 1953.
  • Hogrefe, Jeffrey, ed. The Antiques world price guide to over 40,000 antiques and collectibles. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1982.
  • Houdret, Jessica. The ultimate book of herbs & herb gardening. New York: Lorenz Books, 1999.
  • Hough, George A., 1894-. Disaster on Devil's Bridge. Mystic, Conn.: Marine Historical Association [Publication no. 42], 1963.
  • Houghton, Raymond W. The world of George Berkeley. [n.p.]: [n.p.], [n.d.].
  • Howe, George Locke. Mount Hope; a New England chronicle. New York: Viking Press, 1959.
  • Howe, Mark Antony De Wolfe, 1864-1960. Who lived here? A baker's dozen of historic New England houses and their occupants. Boston: Litte Brown, 1952.
  • Hutner, Martin. Daniel Berkeley Updike and the British connection. New York: The Typophiles, 1988.

  • Isham, Norman Morrison, 1864-1943. A glossary of colonial architectural terms. With a bibliography of books, 1880-1930. Watkins Glen, NY: American Life Foundation, 1968.
  • Isham, Norman Morrison, 1864-1943. The meeting house of the First Baptist church in Providence; a history of the fabric. Issued by the Charitable Baptist Society on the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the dedication of the house, May twenty-eighth, seventeen hundred and seventy-five. Providence: Akerman-Standard Company, 1925.

  • James, Rev. Thomas. The civil compact and the town evidence. Providence: Roger Williams Press, 1963.
  • Jones, J. Alexander. History of Main Street Association of Wickford. [n.p.]: [n.p.] 1957.

  • Kaiser, Carl W., Mrs. Musical expressions of early Rhode Island Indians. Kingston, RI: Pettaquamscutt Historical Society, 1986.
  • Kamm, Minnie Elizabeth (Watson) 1886-1954. Old-time herbs for northern gardens. New York: Dover Publications, 1971.
  • Kauffman, Henry J., 1908-. The colonial silversmith; his techniques & his products. Camden, New Jersey: T. Nelson, 1969.
  • Kennedy, Pamela A. Lincoln, Rhode Island. Providence: Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission Statewide historical preservation report P-L-1, 1982.
  • Kirk, Deborah Roberts. A day in June. Sturbridge, Mass.: Davis Press, 1982.
  • Kling, Blair B. The Age of partnership: Europeans in Asia before dominion. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1979.
  • Koopman, Harry Lyman, 1860-1937. The Narragansett country; glimpses of the past. Providence: E.L. Freeman company, 1927.
  • Koralewsky, Rose, 1897-. New England heritage and other poems. Boston: Humphries, 1949.
  • Kovel, Ralph M. The complete antiques price list. New York: Crown Publishers, [n.d.].

  • Ladd, Paul Revere, 1894-. Early American fireplaces. New York: Hastings House, 1977.
  • Lapham, Leah Inman. A Rhode Island rule book. Providence: Oxford Press, 1950.
  • Laswell, George D. Corners and characters of Rhode Island. Providence: Oxford Press, 1924.
  • Leach, Douglas Edward, 1920-. Flintlock and tomahawk; New England in King Philip's War. New York: Macmillan, 1958.
  • Leach, Douglas Edward, 1920-. Flintlock and tomohawk. New York: Norton, 1966.
  • Lemons, J. Stanley. The First Baptist Church in America. Providence: Charitable Baptist Society, 1988.
  • Lind, Louise. William Blackstone: Sage of the wilderness. Bowie, MD: Heritage Press, 1993.
  • Lippincott, Bertram, 1897-. Jamestown sampler. Flourtown, PA: GO Printing Corp., 1980.
  • Little, Nina Fletcher, 1903-. American decorative wall painting, 1700-1850. Sturbridge, Mass.: Old Sturbridge Village in cooperation with Studio Publications New York City, 1952.
  • Lombard, Percival Hall. Aptucxet Trading Post. Bourne, Mass.: Historical Society, 1968.
  • Loring, Paule Stetson, 1899-. This really happened in Rhode Island; cartoons that have been presented in the Providence Evening bulletin. Providence: A. W. Lang, 1936.
  • Lovejoy, David Sherman, 1919-. Rhode Island politics and the American Revolution, 1760-1776. Providence: Brown University Press, 1958.

  • Macdonald, Anne L. No idle hands: The social history of American knitting. New York: Ballantine Books, 1988.
  • Majewski, Janice, 1951-. Part of your general public is disabled: a handbook for guides in museums, zoos, and historic houses. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987.
  • Maloney, Richard C. Fifty notable ship portraits at Mystic Seaport. Mystic, Conn.: Marine Historical Association, 1963.
  • Mariacher, Giovanni. Glass from antiquity to the Renaissance. London: Hamlyn, 1970.
  • Massie, Suzanne Williams. Homes and gardens in old Virginia. Richmond, Va.: Garrett & Massie Inc., 1953.
  • McAleer, Althea H. Graveyards of North Kingstown, Rhode Island. North Kingstown, R.I.: A.H. McAleer, 1992.
  • McAlester, Virginia, 1943-. A field guide to American houses. New York: Knopf, 1984.
  • McClinton, Katharine Morrison. A handbook of popular antiques. New York: Random House, 1946.
  • McLoughlin, William Gerald. Rhode Island: a Bicentennial history. New York: W.W. Norton, 1978.
  • McPartland, Martha R. The history of East Greenwich, Rhode Island, 1677-1960. East Greenwich, RI: East Greenwich Free Library Association, 1960.
  • Miller, Charles Thurber, 1830-1876. Settlement of Rhode Island. New York: The Graphic Co. photo-lith., 1874.
  • Miller, William Davis, 1887-. A brief account of the William Withington plat of Boston Neck, with a description of the shares of the proprietors. Issued at the annual court of the Society of Colonial Wars in the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations by its governor, William. Providence: E.L. Freeman company [Publication no. 17], 1925.
  • Miller, William Davis, 1887-. Notes and queries concerning the early bounds and divisions of the township of East Greenwich: as set forth in William Hall's plat, 1716. Providence: E.L. Freeman company [Publication no. 30], 1937.
  • Miner, George Leland. Angell's Lane: the history of a little street in Providence. Providence: Akerman-Standard Press, 1948.
  • Mohr, Ralph S. Governors for three hundred years, 1638-1959; Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Providence: Oxford Press, 1959.
  • Morison, Samuel Eliot, 1887-1976. Old Bruin: Commodore Matthew C. Perry, 1794-1858; the American naval officer who helped found Liberia. Boston: Little Brown An Atlantic Monthly Press book, 1967.
  • Mullins, Lisa C. Early American community structures: from material originally published as the White Pine series of architectural monographs. Harrisburg, Penn.: National Historical Society, 1987.

  • Naeve, Milo M. Identifying American furniture: a pictorial guide to styles and terms, colonial to contemporary. Nashville, Tenn.: American Association for State and Local History, 1989.
  • Nelson, Wilbur. The life of Dr. John Clarke. [n.p.]: First Baptist John Clarke Memorial Church, 1983.
  • Nerius, Maria Given. Soapmaking for fun and profit. Rocklin, Calif.: Prima Publishing, 1999.
  • New England Heritage Center. The New England speaker sourcebook. Waltham, Mass.: Bentley College, 1988.

  • Ogilvie, Elisabeth. Storm tide. Camden, Maine: Down East Books, 1972.
  • Old Colony Trust Company, Boston. New England old and new; a brief review of some historical and industrial incidents in the Puritan "New England Canaan," still the Land of promise; published by the Old Colony Trust Company of Boston, commemorating the tercentenary of the first landing at [Boston]. 1957.
  • Opdyke, Charles Wilson, 1838-. The Op Dyck genealogy, containing the Opdyck—Opdycke—Opdyke—Updike American descendants of the Wesel and Holland families. Albany, NY: Weed Parsons & Co., 1889.

  • Pares, Richard, 1902-1958. Yankees and Creoles; the trade between North America and the West Indies before the American Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1956.
  • Parker, Barbara Neville. New England miniatures. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1957.
  • Pell, Claiborne, 1918-. Challenge of the seven seas. New York: Morrow, 1966.
  • Peters, Harry Twyford, 1881-1948;. Currier & Ives, printmakers to the American people; a catalogue of an exhibition held at the New York public library, with an introduction by Harry T. Peters. New York: The New York public library, 1931.
  • Pettaquamscutt Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. Facts and fancies concerning North Kingstown, Rhode Island. North Kingstown, R.I.: The Chapter, 1941.
  • Pettaquamscutt Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. Facts and fancies concerning North Kingstown, Rhode Island. Pawtucket, R.I.: Globe Printing, 1989.
  • Pickering, Ernest, 1893-. The homes of America, as they have expressed the lives of our people for three centuries. New York: Crowell, 1951.
  • Pizer, Laurence R., 1946-. A primer for local historical societies. Nashville, Tenn.: American Association for State and Local History, 1991.
  • Potter, Elisha Reynolds, 1811-1882. Several purchases of the lands west of Wickford sold by the committee of the colony for the sale of the vacant lans [!] in 1709, as shown on a map by Hon. Elisha Reynolds Potter, 1838. Issued at the annual court of the Society of colonial wars in the state. Providence: E.L. Freeman company, 1937.
  • Powys, Marian, 1882-. Lace and lace-making. Boston: C.T. Branford Co., 1953.
  • Pratt, Richard, 1891-1973. Houses, history, and people. New York: M. Evans, 1965.
  • Pyle, Katharine, ?-1938. Once upon a time in Rhode Island. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday Page & Company for National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. Rhode Island, 1914.

  • Quinn, Alonzo W. Rhode Island geology for the non-geologist. Providence: Rhode Island Department of Natural Resrouces, 1973.
  • Quinney, Valerie. How to find out by asking: a guide to oral history in Rhode Island. [n.p.]: [n.p.], 1979.

  • Rhode Island Historic Preservation Commission. Narragansett Pier; Statewide Historical Preservation Report #W-N-1, 1978 [n.p.].
  • Rhode Island Historic Preservation Commission., [n.d.]. North Kingstown, Rhode Island, Statewide Historic Preservation Report, #W-NK-1. [n.p.]: Rhode Island Historic Preservation Commission., [n.d.].
  • Rhode Island General Assembly. Special Legislative Commission to Study the Entire Area of Preservation of Rhode Island Historic Buildings and Properties and to Make Recommendations Therefor. A legacy to save or lose: final report. Providence: The Commission, 1988.
  • Rivard, Paul E. The home manufacture of cloth, 1790-1840. [n.p.]: Exhibit pamphlet Slater Mill Historic Site. National Endowment for the Humanities, [n.d.].
  • Roeker, William Greene. Providence Washington Insurance Company, 1790-1949. Providence: Roger Williams Press, 1949.
  • Rogers, Lola Eriksen. Museums and related institutions; a basic program survey. Washington: U.S. Office of Education; 1969.
  • Rowe, Dorothy Snowden. At the end of the pond; historical reminiscences of Weekapaug, R.I. Stonington, Conn.: Pequot Press, 1964.
  • Rubertone, Patricia E. Historical archaeology at Cocumscussoc: A pilot study for local preservation planning. [n.p.]: [n.p.], 1990.

  • Salisbury, Neal. Manitou and providence: Indians, Europeans, and the making of New England, 1500-1643. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
  • Sanford, S.N.F. New England herbs. [n.p.]: New England Museum of Natural History, 1937.
  • Sargent, Henry Jackson, 1834-1862. The captain of the Phantom; the story of Henry Jackson Sargent, Jr., 1834-1862, as revealed in family letters. Mystic, Conn.: Marine Historical Association, 1967.
  • Sawtell, Clement Cleveland. The ship Ann Alexander of New Bedford. Mystic, Conn.: Marine Historical Association, 1962.
  • Scavizzi, Giuseppe. Maiolica, Delft and Faience. [n.p.]: Feltham Hamlyn, 1970.
  • Schlereth, Thomas J. Artifacts and the American past. Nashville, Tenn.: American Association for State and Local History, 1988.
  • Schmitt, Frederick P. H.M.S. Culloden. Mystic, Conn.: Marine Historical Association [Publication no. 38], 1961.
  • Schwatka, Frederick, 1849-1892. The long Arctic search; the narrative of Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka, U.S.A., 1878-1880, seeking the records of the lost Franklin expedition. Mystic, Conn.: Marine Historical Association [Publication no. 44], 1965.
  • Seale, William. Recreating the historic house interior. Nashville, Tenn.: American Association for State and Local History, 1979.
  • Shackleton, Robert, 1860-1923. The quest of the colonial. New York: The Century Company, 1907.
  • Sheldon, Irving C. Saunderstown. Wakefield, R.I.: I.C. Sheldon, 1985.
  • Shepard, Florence Crosby, 1914-. Nashua, New Hampshire: a pictorial history. Norfolk: Donning, 1989.
  • Sidney S. Rider. Rhode Island historical tracts. Second Series. No. 2. An inquiry concerning the authenticity of an alleged portrait of Roger Williams. Providence: S. S. Rider, 1891.
  • Simister, Florence Parker. A short history of Exeter, Rhode Island. Exeter: Exeter Bicentennial Commission, 1978.
  • Simister, Florence Parker. Daniel and Drum Rock. New York: Hastings House, 1963.
  • Simister, Florence Parker. Girl with a musket. New York: Hastings House, 1959.
  • Simister, Florence Parker. Streets of the city: an anecdotal history of Newport. Providence: Mowbray Co., 1969.
  • Simister, Florence Parker. Streets of the city: an anecdotal history of North Kingstown. North Kingstown, R.I.: Simister's Bookshop, 1974.
  • Simister, Florence Parker. The fire's center : Rhode Island in the Revolutionary era, 1763-1790. Providence: Rhode Island Bicentennial Foundation, 1979.
  • Simmons, William Scranton, 1938-. Cautantowwit's house; an Indian burial ground on the island of Conanicut in Narragansett Bay. Providence: Brown University Press, 1970.
  • Simmons, William Scranton, 1938-. Spirit of the New England tribes: Indian history and folklore, 1620-1984. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1986.
  • Small, Stephen J. Preserving family lands: a landowner's introduction to tax issues and other considerations. Boston: Preserving Family Lands, 1988.
  • Smith, Hedley. Gift of armor: Romance of Warwick. [n.p.]: Vantage Press, 1968.
  • Smith, Hedley. The Yankee Yorkshireman. Detroit: Harlo Press, 1970.
  • Snow, Edward Rowe. Great storms and famous shipwrecks of the New England coast. Boston: Yankee publishing company, 1943.
  • Snow, Edward Rowe. Pirates and bucaneers of the Atlantic coast. Boston: Yankee Publishing, 1944.
  • Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. A copy of a letter of Roger Williams. Providence: [n.p.], 1971.
  • Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. A map of Acquidnesset or North purchase of the Atherton partners. Issued at the General Court of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Rhode Island and Providence plantations, by its governor, Albert Allison Baker, esquire, and the Council of the S. Providence: E.L. Freeman company, 1932.
  • Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. An affidavit by Roger Williams. Providence: [n.p.], 1976.
  • Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Fourth record book of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Providence: E.L. Freeman company, 1947.
  • Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Intercourse and non-intercourse with the Narragansett Indians. [n.p.]: W.A. Viall Council of the R.I. Society of Colonial Wars Publication no. 54, 1979.
  • Stackpole, Edouard A., 1905-. Figureheads & ship carvings at Mystic Seaport. Mystic, Conn.: Marine Historical Association [Publication no. 43], 1964.
  • Stanton, Samuel Ward. Long Island Sound and Narragansett Bay steam vessels. Meriden, Conn.: Meriden Gravure Co., [n.d.].
  • Steinberg, Sheila. Rhode Island: an historical guide. Providence: Rhode Island Bicentennial Foundation, 1976.
  • Steinberg, Sheila. The Rhode Island Guide. Providence: Rhode Island Bicentenneal Foundation, 1976.
  • Stevenson, Edward M. House of Seven Gables. Southborough, Mass.: Yankee Colour Corp., 1976.
  • Stillwell, Margaret Bingham, 1887-. The pageant of Benefit street down through the years. Providence: Akerman-Standard Press, 1945.
  • Stillwell, Margaret Bingham, 1887-. While Benefit street was young. Providence: Akerman-Standard Press, 1943.
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