page containing that date was missing. The text of the resolution is as follows: We, whose names are hereunder, desirous to inhabit in the town of Providence, do promise to subject ourselves in active or passive obedience to all such orders or agreements as shall be made for public good of our body, in an orderly way, by the major assent of the present inhabitants, master of families, incorporated together into a town fellowship, and others whom they shall admit unto them only in civil things. Richard Scott William Reynolds X his mark John Field X his mark Chad Browne John Warner George Richard Edward Cope Thomas Angell X his mark (now an adult) Thomas Harris Francis Wickes X his mark (now an adult) Benedict Arnold (now an adult) Joshua Winsor William Wickenden Original proprietors of Providence Those named in a deed from Roger Williams, dated about October 8, 1638: Roger Williams Stukeley Westcott (left Salem about March 1638) William Arnold Thomas James (was minister at Charlestown; Providence by June 1637; left for New Haven in 1639) Robert Coles (was earlier at Roxbury, Ipswich, and Salem) John Greene (had departed Boston by March 1636) John Throckmorton (was at Salem earlier) John Sweet William Harris William Carpenter Thomas Olney (left Salem about March 1638) Francis Weston (left Salem about March 1638) Richard Waterman (left Salem about March 1638) Ezekiel Holyman (left Salem about March 1638) Pawtuxet settlers Those settlers who left Providence to settle on the north side of the Pawtuxet River about 1638, putting themselves under the jurisdiction of Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1642 to 1658: William Arnold Benedict Arnold, moved to Newport in 1651 William Carpenter Thomas Hopkins, did not stay long William Mann, did not stay long Robert Coles William Harris, did not stay long Zachariah Rhodes (married Joanna, daughter of William Arnold), did not stay long William Field, did not stay long Stukeley Westcott, moved to Warwick about 1643 Signers of Providence agreement for a government, 1640 Those 39 Providence settlers who signed an agreement to form a government on July 27, 1640: Chad Brown Robert Coles William Harris John Throckmorton Stukely Westcott Benedict Arnold William Carpenter Richard Scott Thomas Harris Francis Wickes X his mark Thomas Angell X his mark Adam Goodwin X his mark William Burrows X his mark Roger Williams Robert West Joshua Winsor Robert Williams Mathew Waller Gregory Dexter John Lippitt X his