1970 Notes on Little Compton Benjamin Franklin Wilbour Rhode Island History 1st

1970 first edition, The Little Compton Historical Society (Little Compton, Rhode Island), 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches tall burgundy cloth hardcover, no dust jacket (as issued), gilt lettering to front cover and spine, map and pictorial endpapers, [8], 292 pp. Very slight soiling and edgewear to covers. Otherwise, a very good to near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked. ~C~ [2.0P] Edited by Carlton C. Brownell and drawn from the extensive research archives of noted genealogist and local historian Benjamin Franklin Wilbour, this volume presents a rich, documentary history of Little Compton, Rhode Island. Wilbour spent decades transcribing town records, proprietary minutes, deeds, cemetery inscriptions, and church archives to piece together the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century founding and settlement of the area. Illustrated with maps and historical records, the work provides detailed accounts of original proprietors, early land divisions, historic homesteads, and prominent colonial families. Along with Wilbour's 'Little Compton Families,' this foundational text remains an indispensable primary source and genealogical cornerstone for researchers of colonial Rhode Island and New England ancestry.…