Rhode Island List of Early Settlers

Founders of Portsmouth
1638-Mar-07 : Supporters of Anne Hutchinson who signed the Portsmouth Compact, dated 7 March 1638 - 19 on list plus 4 more whose names were crossed out. The last four names on the list were crossed out, but these men nevertheless came to Portsmouth or Newport.
 * Portsmouth Compact -

Full Text of the Portsmouth Compact: The 7th Day of the First Month, 1638.We whose names are underwritten do hereby solemnly in the presence of Jehovah incorporate ourselves into a Bodie Politick and as He shall help, will submit our persons, lives and estates unto our Lord Jesus Christ, the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, and to all those perfect and most absolute laws of His given in His Holy Word of truth, to be guided and judged thereby.


 * 1) William Coddington
 * 2) John Clarke
 * 3) William Hutchinson (1586-1641) - husband of  Anne Marbury Hutchinson.
 * 4) John Coggeshall
 * 5) William Aspinwall
 * 6) Samuel Wilbore
 * 7) John Porter
 * 8) John Sanford
 * 9) Edward Hutchinson, Jr., oldest son of William and Anne Hutchinson
 * 10) Thomas Savage
 * 11) William Dyer, husband of Mary Dyer
 * 12) William Freeborn
 * 13) Philip Shearman
 * 14) John Walker (1604-1647) -
 * 15) Richard Carder
 * 16) William Baulston
 * 17) Edward Hutchinson, Sr., brother of William Hutchinson
 * 18) Henry Bull (signed with a mark)
 * 19) Randall Holden
 * 20) Thomas Clarke - Name crossed out
 * 21) John Johnson - Name crossed out
 * 22) William Hall - Name crossed out
 * 23) John Brightman - Name crossed out