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William Coddington (* um 1601 in Marston, England; † 1. November 1678 in Newport, Rhode Island) war ein englischer Jurist und Politiker. Er fungierte als Vizegouverneur und Gouverneur der Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
Coat of Arms of William Coddington. William Coddington (c. 1601 – 1 November 1678) was an early magistrate of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and later of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. He served as the judge of Portsmouth and Newport in that colony, governor of Portsmouth and Newport, deputy governor of the ...
William Coddington (born 1601, Boston, Lincolnshire, Eng.—died Nov. 1, 1678, Rhode Island [U.S.]) was a colonial governor and religious dissident who founded Newport, Rhode Island, in 1639. Coddington, an assistant in the Massachusetts Bay Company, migrated to the New England colony in 1630.
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William Coddington (1601-1678), principal founder of Portsmouth and Newport and governor of Rhode Island, was born in Boston, Lincolnshire, England. By his thirtieth year, he had achieved substance and position. In 1630, at about the same time as John Winthrop’s arrival, he came to America as an assistant (director) in the Massachusetts Bay ...
William Coddington (c. 1601 – 1 November 1678) was an early magistrate of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and later of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
William Coddington (* um 1601 in Marston, England; † 1. November 1678 in Newport , Rhode Island ) war ein englischer Jurist und Politiker . Er fungierte als Vizegouverneur und Gouverneur der Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations .
views 2,410,933 updated. William Coddington, 1601–78, one of the founders of Rhode Island, probably b. Boston, England. He came to America in 1630 as an officer of the Massachusetts Bay Company and was its treasurer from 1634 to 1636. He supported Anne Hutchinson in the antinomian controversy.
