mark John Warner John Field William Arnold William Field Edward Cope Edward Manton X his mark William Man Nicholas Power William Reynolds X his mark Thomas Olney Richard Waterman William Wickenden Edward Hart Hugh Bewit Thomas Hopkins X his mark Joan Tiler (widow) Jane Sears X her mark (widow) Christopher Unthank William Hawkins X his mark Settlers of Cocumscussoc (Wickford) area Those early settlers who had trading posts in the area of Wickford in what was then the "Narragansett country" and later a part of North Kingstown, Rhode Island: Richard Smith, built a trading post established about 1637 where his house Smith's Castle still stands, rebuilt by Richard, Jr. after King Philip's War Roger Williams, built his trading post about a mile north from Smith's post along the Pequot Path (or Post Road) and occupied it from about 1644 to 1651 and then sold it to Smith to get funds for his proposed errand to England Mr. Wilcox (possibly Edward or John), built his trading post in the early 1640s in the same general area Founders of Portsmouth Supporters of Anne Hutchinson who signed the Portsmouth Compact, dated March 7, 1638: William Coddington John Clarke William Hutchinson, husband of Anne Hutchinson John Coggeshall William Aspinwall Samuel Wilbore John Porter John Sanford Edward Hutchinson, Jr., oldest son of William and Anne Hutchinson Thomas Savage William Dyer, husband of Mary Dyer William Freeborn Philip Shearman John Walker Richard Carder William Baulston Edward Hutchinson, Sr., brother of William Hutchinson Henry Bull (signed with a mark) Randall Holden Thomas Clarke John Johnson William Hall John Brightman The last four names on the list were crossed out, but these men nevertheless came to Portsmouth or Newport. Inhabitants of Aquidneck Island (1638) The following individuals were among the earliest settlers of Aquidneck Island in the Narragansett Bay; the island was officially named Rhode Island by 1644, from which the entire colony eventually took its name. The first group of 58 names appears to be settlers of Pocasset (later Portsmouth), while the second group of 42 appears to be settlers of Newport. These two lists come from Bartlett's Records of the Colony of Rhode Island, and apparently they were compiled and incorporated into the town records of Newport on November 25, 1639. The actual arrival dates of the individuals likely span over several months during 1638; a few individuals have legible dates next to their names, while