King Philip's War & the Colonial Contact Period in Warren, RI

Two hundred troops were quickly dispatched on June 21st from Bridgewater and Taunton to the Miles Garrison, near the Miles River Bridge, located on present-day Barneyville Road and marked by a large stone and maker (below). Local leader and historian Benjamin Church described an ambush by Natives near the bridge.
		The grave of the Rev. John Myles, a Baptist clergyman from Wales who settled in Swansea in 1662,  is marked at the cemetery on Tyler Point off of County Road in present day Barrington (photo, below). The church he served was relocated from Tyler Point to a spot further north now occupied by Four Town Farm.
		A marker stands on George Street near Four-Town Farm in Barrington indicating the site of the First Baptist Church in Massachusetts founded in 1663 by Reverend John Myles. Other founders included James Brown, Nicholas Tanner, Joseph Carpenter, Eldad Kingsley, Benjamin Alby, and John Butterworth.
		The Bungtown Bridge, pictured on the left, today stands near the site of the Miles River Bridge in West Swansea.

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