Rhode Island State Records Collection (MSS 231 SG 3)

Rhode Island Historical Society

121 Hope Street
Providence, RI 02906
Tel: 401-273-8107
Fax: 401-751-7930
Email: reference@rihs.org

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Arrangement

Series I: General Assembly

• Acts and Resolves, 1661-1920 (Use published transcriptions in Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in New England, edited by John Russell Bartlett, Providence, 1856 available in the RIHS Reading Room at Call Number F 76 .R29 1968.)
• Miscellaneous Rhode Island records arranged chronologically, 1670-1979

Series II: Governor

• Correspondence and resolves received by Governor from the U.S. Congress, 1775-1788

Series III: State Agencies

• Commission to Study Higher Education, 1957-1960
• Rhode Island Normal School/College of Education - Minutes, 1909-1930
• State Board of Education - Minutes, 1909-1930
• State Board for Vocational Education - Minutes, 1917-1927
• State Home and School - Board of Control - Minutes, 1891-1911
• Rhode Island State Council of Defense (WWII), 1941-1944

Series IV: Administrative units

• Rhode Island Banking, Insurance and Securities Administration, c.1799-c.1940
• State Planning Board, 1944

Series V: Courts

• Lords Commissioners for Hearing Prize Appeals and Privy-Council in Whitehall, England, 1741-1752
• Maritime court, 1776
• RI General Court, c.1780s
• Vice-Admiralty Court, 1746-1762