A Preliminary Report on the Excavations at the House of Jireh Bull on Tower Hill in Rhode Island.

Authors

Henry Clinton Dexter

Files

Description

Issued at the General Court of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, by its Governor, Henry Clinton Dexter, Esquire and the Council of the Society December 31, 1917.

An account of the archaeological research done by the Society of Colonial Wars in investigating the Jireh Bull homestead in Washington County, Rhode Island. The homestead had been fortified for defensive purposes during King Phillips War, but had been attacked and burned by the Indians on December 15, 1675 with the loss of some fifteen lives.

Publication Date

12-31-1917

Publisher

Society of Colonial Wars, Rhode Island

Disciplines

History | United States History

Recommended Citation

Dexter, Henry Clinton, "A Preliminary Report on the Excavations at the House of Jireh Bull on Tower Hill in Rhode Island." (1917). Rhode Island History. 11.
https://digitalcommons.providence.edu/ri_history/11