[Newport Agreement]

April 28, 1639


Pocasset. On the 28th of the 2d [month], 1639

It is agreed.

By vs whose hands are underwritten, to propagate a Plantation in the midst of the Island or elsewhere; And doe engage ourselves to bear equall charges, answerable to our strength and estates in common; and that our determinations shall be by major voice of judge and elders; the Judge to have a double voice.

[Signed by William Coddington and eight others.]


J.R. Bartlett, ed.: Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in New England: Vol 1, 1636 to 1663 (Providence: A. Crawford Greene and Brother, State Printers, 1856), p. 69. — Colonial Origins, p. 165.