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WARWICK , a township of Kent county, RhodeSee also: Island, U.S.A., about 5 M
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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
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Pop
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(18go) 17,761; (1900) 21,316, of whom 7792 were See also: foreign-See also: born; (1910 census) 26,629
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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
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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 Neck, See also: Oakland See also: Beach, Buttonwoods, Conimicut and Long Meadow, which are summer resorts
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See also: Water power is provided by the Pawtuxet river, and much See also: cotton and some woollen and See also: print goods are manufactured
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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
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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 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 honour of the earl
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In 1647 the settlement entered into a union with Providence, See also: Newport and Portsmouth under the Warwick (or See also: Williams) charter of 1644, but during 1651—1654 Warwick and Providence were temporarily separated from the other two towns
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Warwick was the birthplace of General See also: Nathanael See also: Greene
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