Coaster's Harbor Island - US Naval War College (Newport, Rhode Island)

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"On April 28, 1639, William Coddington, Judge; Nicholas Easton, John
Coggeshall, William Brenton, Elders; John Clarke, Jeremy Clarke,
Thomas Hazard, Henry Bull, William Dyer, Clerk, agreed at Pocasset
[Portsmouth] 'to propagate a plantation in the midst of the island, or
elsewhere,' and shortly thereafter they removed to the southern end of
Aquidneck.

Nicholas Easton and his two sons, Peter and John, went by boat to an island in present Newport Harbor, where they lodged; naming it Coaster's Harbor Island. The other members of the company soon arrived, and all looked about for the best site of a permanent settlement. There was a swamp where Thames Street is now, so the settlers crossed over to the present Newport Beach. Fearing that this location would be unsafe for shipping, they returned to the harbor and began the town near the junction of what is now West Broadway and Marlborough
Street.

On May 16, 1639, it was agreed that 'the plantation now begun at the southwest end of the island shall be called Newport; and that all lands lying northward and eastward from said town towards Pocasset [Portsmouth], for the space of 5 miles, and so cross from sea to sea, with all lands south and west, bounded with the main sea [Atlantic Ocean], together with the small islands and the grass on Conanicut, is appointed for the accommodation of said town. It is ordered that the town shall be built upon both sides of the spring [near junction of Broadway and Spring St.], and by the sea-side, southward.'"

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