Excerpt from History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Vol. 2 of 2: From the Settlement of the State, 1636, to the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, 1790; 1700 1790 Oct. 9. Troversy.2 The General Assembly appointed a committee to treat with Rhode Island. These attempts, although Often renewed, had thus far proved abortive for want of a common ground upon which the disputants could agree as a starting point for negotiation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.