Chapter IX

TERRITORY OF RHODE ISLAND IS INCREASED BY THE ADDITION OF BLOCK
ISLAND.--DISPUTES BETWEEN RHODE ISLAND AND THE OTHER COLONIES
SETTLED BY ROYAL COMMAND.--STATE OF AFFAIRS IN THE COLONY IN 1667.

1663. Block Island added to Rhode Island, 55

Regulations concerning its admission, 56

It is incorporated under the name of New Shoreham, 56

Four Commissioners sent to America to reduce the
Dutch and settle all questions of appeal between
the colonies, 57

The vexed questions of boundary line between
Rhode Island and Plymouth; the Narragansett
question and Warwick difficulties referred to the
Commissioners, who referred the first to the King
and decided the second in favor of Rhode Island, 57

The Indians removed from King's Province, 59

Five propositions submitted by the Commissioners to
the Rhode Island Assembly, 59

1st. All householders should take the oath of
allegiance to the King, 59

2d. Mode of admitting freemen, 59

3d. Admission to the sacrament open to all well
disposed persons, 60

4th. All laws and resolves derogatory to the King
repealed, 60

5th. Provisions for self-defence, 60

1672. Trouble with John Paine concerning Prudence Island, 62

Members of the Assembly to be paid for their
services, 63

Financial difficulties in the Colony, 64

1667. Preparations for defence against the French, 64

1672. Act passed to facilitate the collection of taxes, 65