by Peter Fay | May 25, 2023 | 2023 Articles, Jamestown History Articles
Dinah Battey, of Jamestown, 20, married her husband in 1711. Six days after her wedding, on the sailing ferry home from Newport, the boat capsized, and she tragically drowned. Little was more dangerous in Colonial Rhode Island than crossing the bay in ferries. Family...
by Rosemary Enright and Sue Maden | Apr 27, 2023 | 2023 Articles, Jamestown History Articles
Most of the Portuguese immigrants who came to Jamestown at the turn of the 20th century were from the Azores, an archipelago in the mid-Atlantic about 900 miles off the Portuguese coast. Many of these immigrants spoke of their homeland as the Western Isles rather than...
by Rosemary Enright and Sue Maden | Mar 16, 2023 | 2023 Articles, Jamestown History Articles
A wedding photo of Joseph Perry and Margaret McMenamin from June 1941. Standing behind them, from left, are the best man, Henry Serpa, Margaret’s father, Patrick McManimen, and the maid of honor, Annie McManimen. In 1880, more than 80 percent of the people living in...
by Peter Fay | Feb 25, 2023 | 2023 Articles, Jamestown History Articles
Remington Farm, residence of enslaved Orman Remington; and Eldred Farm, residence of his enslaved wife and children. Orman Remington was enslaved at Gershom Remington’s farm, which is now Watson Farm, on North Road. He was the only known slave in Jamestown’s history...
by Rosemary Enright and Sue Maden | Jan 12, 2023 | 2023 Articles, Jamestown History Articles
A four-engine long-range B-24 Liberator bomber on which William Sweet was engineer for 18 missions over enemy territory during World War II. Eighty years ago, the United States was entering its second year of involvement in World War II. Few were left untouched by the...
by Rosemary Enright and Sue Maden | Dec 22, 2022 | 2022 Articles, Jamestown History Articles
Preston E. Peckham and his wife, Catherine, taking a chilly winter carriage ride. Participating in horse competition, pigeon races, and carriage parades, Preston, born in 1884, was considered one of the most colorful turn-of-the-century characters in Jamestown. John...
