Nicholas Easton American Politician
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| First Name |
Nicholas
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| Last Name |
Easton
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| Birthday |
30th November, 1592
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| Birthplace |
Hampshire, England
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| Died |
15th August, 1675
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| Place of Death |
Newport, Rhode Island
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| Buried |
Coddington Cemetery, Newport
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| Nationality |
American
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| Occupation Text |
Tanner, assistant, president, commissioner, governor
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| Occupation |
Politician
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Nicholas Easton (c.1593–1675) was an early colonial President and Governor of Rhode Island. Born in Hampshire, England, he lived in the towns of Lymington and Romsey before immigrating to New England with his two sons in 1634. Once in the New World, he lived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony towns of Ipswich, Newbury, and Hampton. Easton supported the dissident ministers John Wheelwright and Anne Hutchinson during the Antinomian Controversy, and was disarmed in 1637, and then banished from the Massachusetts colony the following year.
Along with many other Hutchinson supporters, he settled in Portsmouth on Aquidneck Island, later a part of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. He was in Portsmouth for about a year when he and eight others signed an agreement to create a plantation elsewhere on the island, establishing the town of Newport.
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