TY - BOOK AU - Whitehurst,Susan TI - The Colony of Rhode Island SN - 0-8239-5476-5 PY - 2000/// CY - New York PB - The Rosen Publishing Group,Inc KW - Rhode Island - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 KW - Rhode Island - History - 1775 - 1865 KW - Series: The library of the thirteen colonies and the lost colony N2 - Traces the history of Rhode Island from the arrival of the first European settlers in the early seventeenth century through 1790 when it became the thirteenth state to join the Union ER -