 Upon their arrival in New England , the Arnolds joined a group of settlers from Hingham , Norfolk , England , where they established the new town of Hingham in the Massachusetts Bay Colony . William Arnold received title to a house lot here in September 1635 , but the following spring he and several other settlers were persuaded by Roger Williams to join him in establishing a new settlement on the Narragansett Bay , named Providence . In the family record the younger Arnold wrote , " <unk> . We came to Providence to Dwell the 20th of April , 1636 @.@ per me <unk> Arnold . " Arnold received a house lot on what is now North Main Street in Providence , and his father was granted the second lot south of his . 
