Little Compton Historical Society Executive Directory Marjorie O’Toole describes the lives of ten 17th-century Little Compton women and explores their contributions to our local history in a one-hour on-line program on Little Compton’s 17th Century Women on May 19, 2020. Click here for a one-hour-fourteen-minute video of the presentation.
O’Toole begins by describing the transition from a Sakonnet Indian community to a colonial village in the 17th century during which the population of women declined from about 1,000 Sakonnet Native women to about 800 English, Indigenous and African women.
She then described the role that Awashonks played as tribal chief and how the land was laid out into colonial lots after the King Philip’s War (1675-1676) before talking about the histories of some of the English women who lived in the town.
