Patience Island

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Patience, Prudence, Hope and Despair. And the little Hog over there. — Colonial children’s poem

Patience Island lies off the northwest coast of Prudence Island, in the town of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, United States. The island has no inhabitants since the Steere Family and has a land area of 0.8536 km² (0.33 sq mi, or 210.9 acres), making it the fourth-largest island in Narragansett Bay.

Rhode Island’s founder, Roger Williams, was said to have lived for a spell on Patience, which he named along with Prudence and nearby Hope Island.

Nearly all of Patience was a working farm as early as the mid-17th century, but British forces burned its buildings during the Revolutionary War. It was rebuilt and continued as a farm until the early 20th century. An effort to develop a summer resort there failed in the 1960s.

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