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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 341 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WARWICK , a township of See also:

Kent See also:county, Rhode See also:Island, U.S.A., about 5 M. S. of See also:Providence, on the W. See also:side of See also:Narragansett See also:Bay (here called Providence See also:river) and crossed by the Pawtuxet river, which is in its See also:lower course a See also:part of the township's See also:northern boundary. Pop. (18go) 17,761; (1900) 21,316, of whom 7792 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910 See also:census) 26,629. The township is crossed by the New See also:York, New Haven & See also:Hartford railway, and electric lines serve most of its twenty-seven rather scattered villages. The larger villages are: on the river, See also:Pontiac, See also:Natick, River Point (at the junction of the two upper branches of the Pawtuxet), See also:Phoenix, Centreville and See also:Crompton; on See also:Greenwich Bay, Apponaug and Warwick; and on Providence river, Shawomet, Warwick See also:Neck, See also:Oakland See also:Beach, Buttonwoods, Conimicut and See also:Long Meadow, which are summer resorts. See also:Water See also:power is provided by the Pawtuxet river, and much See also:cotton and some woollen and See also:print goods are manufactured. The value of the factory product in 1905 was $7,051,971 (17.1% more than in 1900); of the See also:total, nine-tenths was the value of textile products. Warwick, originally called Shawomet (Shawmut), its See also:Indian name, was settled in 1643 by See also:Samuel See also:Gorton (q.v.) and a few followers. Gorton quarrelled with the See also:Indians, was carried off to See also:Boston, was tried there for See also:heresy, was convicted, and was imprisoned; was released with orders to leave the See also:colony in See also:March 1644, went to See also:England, and under the patronage of the See also:earl of Warwick returned to his See also:settlement in 1648 and renamed it in See also:honour of the earl. In 1647 the settlement entered into a See also:union with Providence, See also:Newport and See also:Portsmouth under the Warwick (or See also:Williams) See also:charter of 1644, but during 1651—1654 Warwick and Providence were temporarily separated from the other two towns. Warwick was the birthplace of See also:General See also:Nathanael See also:Greene.

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