Download or read book Proceedings of the Rhode Island Historical Society, 1889 (Classic Reprint) written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-12-16 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Proceedings of the Rhode Island Historical Society, 1889 At a meeting held February 7, 1888, a paper prepared by Professor Alpheus S. Packard was read by Mr. David W. Hoyt. Professor Stephen F. Peckham made an extended address. At a meeting held February 21, 1888, General Horatio Rogers read a paper entitled Diary of the Rev. John Comer, kept at Newport and Elsewhere in the Early Part of the Last Century. At a meeting held March 6, 1888, Mr. James Phinney Bax ter, Of Portland, Maine, read a paper entitled Early Voyages to America. At a meeting held March 20, 1888, Mr. James Burdick read a paper, giving Reminiscences as a California forty-niner, and an account Of the early mining excitement on the Fraser river. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.