Records_, I., 87, 100, 108.] [Footnote 4: Ibid., 127.

In 1614 the Dutch navigator Adrian Block gave to the country of Narragansett Bay the name of Rhode Island--the Red Island--because of the red clay in some portions of its shores.] [Footnote 5: _R.I.Col.

Records_, I., 27.] [Footnote 6: Winthrop, _New England_, II., 24; _Mass.Col.

Records_, I., 305.] [Footnote 7: _Plymouth Col.

Records_, IX., 23, 110.] [Footnote 8: Sparks, _American Biographies_, VI., 333, 352; Arnold, _Rhode Island_, I., 66, n.] [Footnote 9: Sparks, _American Biographies_, V., 326-340.] [Footnote 10: Winthrop, _New England_, II., 71.] [Footnote 11: Ibid., 102; _Mass.Col.Records_, II., 22.] [Footnote 12: _Simplicities Defence Against Seven-Headed Policy_ (Force, Tracts, IV., No.