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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
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
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 (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
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
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
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 (0. Eng. praed, literally, that which is twisted, prawan, to twist, to throw, cf. " throwster," a silk-winder, Ger. drehen, to twist, turn, Du. draad, Ger. Draht, thread, wire)
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).
End of Article: WESTERLY
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