WESTERLY  , a township of See also:

• WASHINGTON
• WASHINGTON (or WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE)
• WASHINGTON, BOOKER TALIAFERRO (c. 1859– )
• WASHINGTON, BUSHROD (1762-1829)
• WASHINGTON, GEORGE (1732-1799)

Washington See also:

• COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county, Rhode See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

Island, U.S.A., in the extreme S.W. See also:

• PART

part of the See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state, about 44 M . S.S.W. of See also:

• PROVIDENCE

Providence, separated from See also:

• CONNECTICUT

Connecticut on the W. by the Pawcatuck See also:

• RIVER

river, which forms the See also:

• NORTHERN

northern boundary of the township also . Pop . (189o) 6813, (1900) 7541, (1788 being See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born and 185 negroes), (1905, state See also:

• CENSUS (from Lat. censere, to estimate or assess; connected by some with centum, i.e. a count by hundreds)

census) 8381, (191o) 8696 . See also:

• AREA

Area, about 31 sq. m . Westerly is served by the New See also:

• YORK
• YORK (HOUSE OF)
• YORK, EDMUND OF LANGLEY, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
• YORK, EDWARD
• YORK, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
• YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

York, New Haven & See also:

• HARTFORD

Hartford railway, and by interurban electric lines connecting with See also:

• NORWICH
• NORWICH, GEORGE GORING, EARL OF (1583?-1663)

Norwich and New See also:

• LONDON

London, See also:

• CONN
• CONN, LOUGH

Conn . The township includes several small villages, connected by electric See also:

• RAILWAYS

railways, the best known being See also:

• WATCH (in O. Eng. wcecce, a keeping guard or watching, from wacian, to guard, watch, wacan, to wake)

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

fine See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

sea-bathing . Larger villages are Westerly, in the western part of the township and at the See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head of See also:

• NAVIGATION (from Lat. navis, ship, and agere, to move)

navigation (for small vessels) on the Pawcatuck river, and Niantic, in the See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

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
• PENINSULA (Lat. paeninsula, from paene, almost, and insula, an island)

peninsula, See also:

• RUNNING

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, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

Long Island See also:

• SOUND
• SOUND, THE (Danish Oresund)

Sound . The township is the centre of the See also:

• GRANITE (adapted from the Ital. granite, grained; Lat. granum, grain)

granite See also:

• INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

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

quartz See also:

• MONZONITE

monzonite, with a fine even-grained texture, used extensively for monuments; See also:

• BLUE (common in different forms to most European languages)

blue granite, also a quartz monzonite and also much used for monuments; and red granite, a See also:

• BIOTITE

biotite granite, reddish See also:

• GREY, CHARLES GREY, 2ND EARL (1764-1845)
• GREY, HENRY GREY, 3RD EARL (1802-1894)
• GREY, LADY JANE (1537-1554)
• GREY, SIR EDWARD
• GREY, SIR GEORGE (1812–1898)

grey in See also:

• COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour and rather coarse in texture, used for buildings.) Among the manufactures are See also:

• COTTON
• COTTON (Fr. coton; from Arab. qutun)
• COTTON, CHARLES (163o–1687)
• COTTON, GEORGE EDWARD LYNCH (1813–1866)
• COTTON, JOHN (1585–1652)
• COTTON, SIR ROBERT BRUCE

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 (from Lat. imprimere, O. Fr. empreindre)

printing presses .

The See also:

• WATER

water See also:

• SUPPLY (through Fr. from Lat. supplere, to fill up)

supply is from artesian See also:

• WELLS
• WELLS, CHARLES JEREMIAH (1798?–1879)
• WELLS, DAVID AMES (1828—1898)
• WELLS, HERBERT GEORGE (1866— )
• WELLS, SIR THOMAS SPENCER, 1ST BART

wells . The first See also:

• SETTLEMENT
• SETTLEMENT, ACT OF

settlement here was made in 1661, and the township was organized in 1669, when the See also:

• PRESENT

present name was adopted instead of the See also:

• INDIAN

Indian Misquamicut (meaning " See also:

• SALMON
• SALMON, GEORGE (1819-1904)

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, HAROLD (1856-1898)

Frederic See also:

• DENISON
• DENISON, GEORGE ANTHONY (1805-1896)
• DENISON, GEORGE TAYLOR (1839- )

Denison, Westerly and its Witnesses, for Two See also:

• HUNDRED

Hundred and Fifty Years, 1626–1876 (Providence, R.I., 1878) . WESTERhIANN, See also:

• FRANCOIS (1558-1614)

FRANCOIS See also:

• JOSEPH
• JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
• JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)

JOSEPH (d . 1794), See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general, was born at See also:

• MOLSHEIM

Molsheim in See also:

• ALSACE (Ger. Elsass)

Alsace . At an See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age he entered a See also:

• CAVALRY (Fr. cavalerie, Ger. Kavallerie or Reiterei, derived ultimately from late Lat. caballus, horse)

cavalry See also:

• REGIMENT (from Late Latin regimentum, rule, regere, to rule, govern, direct)

regiment, but soon See also:

• LEFT

left the service and went to See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris . He embraced enthusiastically the ideas of the Revolution, and in 1790 became greffier of the See also:

• MUNICIPALITY

municipality of Haguenau . After a See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short imprisonment on a See also:

• CHARGE
• CHARGE (through the Fr. from the Late Lat. carricare, to load in a carrus or wagon; cf. " cargo ")

charge of inciting enteutes at Haguenau, he returned to Paris, where he joined See also:

• DANTON, GEORGE JACQUES (1759-1794)

Danton and played an important part in the attack on the Tuileries on the loth of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1792 . He accompaniedDumouriez on his See also:

• CAMPAIGNS

campaigns and assisted him in his negotiations with the Austrians, being arrested as an See also:

• ACCOMPLICE (from Fr. complice, conspirator, Lat. complex, a sharer, associate, complicare, to fold together; the ac- is possibly due to confusion with " accomplish," to complete, Lat. complere, to fill up)

accomplice after the general's defection . He succeeded, however, in proving his innocence, and was sent with the See also:

• RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank of general of See also:

• BRIGADE (Fr. and Ger. brigade, Ital. brigata, Span. brigada; the English use of the word dates from the early 17th century)

brigade into La See also:

• VENDEE
• VENDEE, WARS OF THE

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

Chatillon, he vanquished the Vendeans at Beaupreau, See also:

• LAVAL
• LAVAL, ANDRE DE, SEIGNEUR DE LOHEAC (c. 1408-1485)

Laval, See also:

• GRANVILLE
• GRANVILLE, GRANVILLE
• GRANVILLE, JOHN CARTERET, EARL (1690-1763)

Granville and Bauge, and in See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1793 annihilated their See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army at Le Mans and Savenay .

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

• PRO

pro-scribed with the Dantonist party and executed on the 5th of See also:

• APRIL

April 17 94 . See P . Iloll, Nos. generaux alsaciens . . . Westermann (See also:

• STRASSBURG, or STRASBURG (French Strasbourg)

Strassburg, 1900) .