Joseph Story: Rhode Island

Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States (1833)by Joseph L. Story

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Rhode Island§ 94.§ 95.§ 96.§ 97.§ 98.§ 99.§ 100.§ 101.§ 102. FOOTNOTES
   1. 1 Hutch. Hist. 12, 1 Holmes's Annals, 225, 233, 246; 1 Chalm. Annals, 269, 270; 3 Hutch. Coll. 413, 414, 415; Marsh. Colon. ch. 3, p. 99; Robertson's America, B. 10; 2 Doug. Summ. 76, to 90; 1 Pitkin's Hist 46; 2 Doug. Summ. 76 to 77; -- Mr. Chalmers says that Providence was settled in the beginning of 1635; and Dr. Holmes, in 1636. (1 Chalm. Annals, 270; 1 Holmes's Annals,233.)
   2. 1 Hutch. Hist. 30, note; Walsh's Appeal, 429; 1 Pitk. Hist. 46, 47, 48; 2 Doug. Summ. 80.
   3. 1 Chalm. 271, 272; 3 Hutch Coll. 415, 416.
   4. 1 Chalm. Annals, 273; 1 Holmes's Annals, 283; Walsh's Appeal, 429; 2 Doug. Summ. 80.
   5. 1 Chalm. Annals, 273; 1 Holmes's Annals, 283.
   6. 1 Chalm. Annals, 274; 1 Holmes's Annals, 297; Marsh. Colon. ch. 5, p. 133
   7. 1 Chalm. Annals, 274; Holmes's Annals, 329.
   8. 2 Haz. Coll. 62 to 623; 2 Doug. Summ. 81
   9. This is the substance but not the exact words of the boundaries in the charter, which is given at large in 2 Haz. Coll. 612 to 623, and in Rhode Island Laws, editions of 1789 and 1822.
   10. 2 Haz. Coll. 613.
   11. 2 Haz. Coll. 613.
   12. Walsh's Appeal, 429.
   13. 3 Hutch. Coll. 413, 415; 1 Chalm. Annals, 276, 284; 1 Holmes's Annals, 336.
   14. On this subject, see I Chalmers's Annals, 276, 284; and Doctor Holmes's valuable note to his Annals, vol.l. p. 336, and Id. p. 341; 3 Hutch. Coll. 413, 415; Walsh's Appeal, 429 to 435.
   15. 1 Chalm. Annals, 276; 1 Holmes's Annals, 336; R. Island Colony Laws, (1744,) p. 3.
   16. 1 Chalm. Annals, 278.
   17. 1 Chalm. Annals, 280, 281; 2 Doug. Summ. 85.
   18. 1 Chalm. Annals, 278, 279; 1 Holmes's Annals, 415, 420, 428, 442; 2 Doug. Summ. 85, 377; Dunmer's Defence, 1 American Tracts, 7.
   19. R. Island Colony Laws (1744), 24.
   20. Id. p.1,147.
   21. Id. p. 1,4.
   22. R. Island Col. Laws (1744), p. 9.
   23. Id.18.
   24. Id.4.
   25. Id.28.
   26. Id.28.
   27. Id.46
   28. Id.87, 133.
   29. Id.108.
   30. Id.115.
   31. R. Island Colony Laws, (Edit. 1744) p. 192.
   32. Colony Laws of Rhode Island, (Edit. 1719, printed at Boston), p. 95, 96.
   33. Rhode Island Colony Laws (1719), p. 5, 8.
   34. 1 Chalm. Annals,296.
   35. Gardner v. Collins;2 Peters's Sup. Rep. 58.
   36. 1 Holmes's Annals, 269, 270; 1 Winthrop's Jour. 237, 284.
   37. 2 Haz. Coll. 1 to 6; 2 Winthrop's Jour. 101 to 106; 1 Hutch. Hist 124, 126.
   38. 1 Holmes's Annals, 270 and note; 1 Hutch. Hist. 126 note; 2 Haz. Coll. 7 et seq.
   39. 1 Holmes's Annals, 287 and note; 1 Hutch. Hist. 124; 2 Haz. Coll. 99, 100.