Near Newman Avenue at Pawtucket Avenue (U.S. 1A), on the right when traveling east.
Reverend Samuel Newman, the founder of Rehoboth & the 1st Pastor of its first church and author of the 1st full English Concordance of the Holy Scriptures. Was born in Banebury, Eng. May 1602. Graduated at Trinity Coll. Oxford 1620, was Pastor ten . . . — — Map (db m299257) HM
On Newman Avenue (Rhode Island Route 152) at Pawtucket Avenue ( Route 114,1A), on the right when traveling east on Newman Avenue.
Here Rev. Samuel Newman and associates, in 1644, found ample place, "Rehoboth," for their plantation.
Near this spot they built their first church at the centre of the "Ring of the Town", destroyed by Indians in 1676. Rebuilt and enlarged . . . — — Map (db m299260) HM WM
