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Formal title:: Paul Campbell Research Notes
Extent:: 8 linear feet
Date range:: 1976-1985.
Abstract:: In January, 1975, the Narragansett Indian tribe filed suit in federal district court to regain lands in southern RI which they claimed were illegally taken from them in 1880. In May, 1976, Paul R. Campbell and Glenn LaFantasie were hired by the RI Attorney General's office and the law firm of Tillinghast, Collins and Graham as historians for the defense, initiating research on the tribe which spanned over two years and several states. By the time their work for the court case was completed, the two historians had collected photocopies of over 9,000 documents dating as far back as 1524.
Repository:: Rhode Island Historical Society
Collection call no:: MSS 369

Formal title:: Rhode Island State Records Collection
Extent:: 5.5 linear feet
Date range:: 1661-1979
Abstract:: Records of the Rhode Island General Assembly, Governor, state agencies, administrative units, and courts.
Repository:: Rhode Island Historical Society
Collection call no:: MSS 231 SG 3

Albert C. Greene Papers

Formal title:: Albert C. Greene Papers
Extent:: 16 linear feet
Date range:: 1804-1863
Abstract:: Albert C. Greene (1791-1863) was born in Coventry, Rhode Island to Perry (b.1749) and Elizabeth (Belcher) Greene (b. 1758). He had one sibling, a brother, William P. Greene (1784-1855). He was educated at the East Greenwich Academy until he was placed as an apprentice, at the age of 13, to George Brinkerhoff, an attorney in New York City. He was admitted to the bar in 1812 and continued his studies at the law school of Judges Reeves & Gould in Litchfield, Connecticut. He returned to Rhode Island in 1813 and set up practice in East Greenwich.
Repository:: Rhode Island Historical Society
Collection call no:: MSS 452

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