Excerpt from The Early Records of the Town of Providence, Vol. 13: Being the Book Called Town Meeting No; 2, 1716 to 1721 and Containing the Records of the Providence Town Meeting This volume continues the work of collecting and printing the Early Records of the Town of Providence authorized by the following resolution of the City Council approved March 6, 1891: "Resolved, That Horatio Rogers, George M, Carpenter and Edward Field are hereby appointed record commissioners, who shall serve without compensation, for the purpose of collecting and printing the early records of the town of Providence. And said commissioners are hereby authorized to expend the sum of one thousand dollars for collecting and printing said records, said sum to be charged to the appropriation for printing." Since the inauguration of the work the City Council has from time to time made additional appropriations for its continuance. The record book known as "Town Meeting No 2 1716 1721" which is here produced in type purports to contain the proceedings of the town meetings between those dates but in fact it also contains records for the years 1722, 1723, 1724 and 1725. 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.