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WESTERLY , a township of See also:

Washington See also:county, Rhode See also:Island, U.S.A., in the extreme S.W. See also:part of the See also:state, about 44 M. S.S.W. of See also:Providence, separated from See also:Connecticut on the W. by the Pawcatuck See also:river, which forms the See also:northern boundary of the township also. Pop. (189o) 6813, (1900) 7541, (1788 being See also:foreign-See also:born and 185 negroes), (1905, state See also:census) 8381, (191o) 8696. See also:Area, about 31 sq. m. Westerly is served by the New See also:York, New Haven & See also:Hartford railway, and by interurban electric lines connecting with See also:Norwich and New See also:London, See also:Conn. The township includes several small villages, connected by electric See also:railways, the best known being See also:Watch See also:Hill, which has See also:fine See also:sea-bathing. Larger villages are Westerly, in the western part of the township and at the See also:head of See also:navigation (for small vessels) on the Pawcatuck river, and Niantic, in the See also:north-eastern part of the township. In Westerly there is a public library (1894), with 23,323 volumes in 1909. Beyond Watch Hill Point on the S.V. point of an L-shaped See also:peninsula, See also:running first W. and then N., is Napatree Point, on which is Fort Mans-See also:field, commanding the N.E. entrance to See also:Long Island See also:Sound. The township is the centre of the See also:granite See also:industry of the state; the quarries are near the villages of Westerly and Niantic. The granite is of three kinds: See also:white statuary granite, a See also:quartz See also:monzonite, with a fine even-grained texture, used extensively for monuments; See also:blue granite, also a quartz monzonite and also much used for monuments; and red granite, a See also:biotite granite, reddish See also:grey in See also:colour and rather coarse in texture, used for buildings.) Among the manufactures are See also:cotton and woollen goods, See also:thread and See also:printing presses.

The See also:

water See also:supply is from artesian See also:wells. The first See also:settlement here was made in 1661, and the township was organized in 1669, when the See also:present name was adopted instead of the See also:Indian Misquamicut (meaning " See also:salmon ") by which it had been called. In 1686 the name was changed to Haversham, but in 1689 the present name was restored. See See also:Frederic See also:Denison, Westerly and its Witnesses, for Two See also:Hundred and Fifty Years, 1626–1876 (Providence, R.I., 1878). WESTERhIANN, See also:FRANCOIS See also:JOSEPH (d. 1794), See also:French See also:general, was born at See also:Molsheim in See also:Alsace. At an See also:early See also:age he entered a See also:cavalry See also:regiment, but soon See also:left the service and went to See also:Paris. He embraced enthusiastically the ideas of the Revolution, and in 1790 became greffier of the See also:municipality of Haguenau. After a See also:short imprisonment on a See also:charge of inciting enteutes at Haguenau, he returned to Paris, where he joined See also:Danton and played an important part in the attack on the Tuileries on the loth of See also:August 1792. He accompaniedDumouriez on his See also:campaigns and assisted him in his negotiations with the Austrians, being arrested as an See also:accomplice after the general's defection. He succeeded, however, in proving his innocence, and was sent with the See also:rank of general of See also:brigade into La See also:Vendee, where he distinguished himself by his extraordinary courage, by the audacity of his manoeuvres, and by his severe treatment of the insurgents. After suffering a defeat at See also:Chatillon, he vanquished the Vendeans at Beaupreau, See also:Laval, See also:Granville and Bauge, and in See also:December 1793 annihilated their See also:army at Le Mans and Savenay.

He was then summoned to Paris, where he was See also:

pro-scribed with the Dantonist party and executed on the 5th of See also:April 17 94. See P. Iloll, Nos. generaux alsaciens . . . Westermann (See also:Strassburg, 1900).

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