"Gorton, Samuel"@en . . . . "Samuel Gorton"@en . "1677Z"^^ . "1593Z"^^ . "5th" . "President of Providence and Warwick" . "1677-12-10Z"^^ . . . "Samuel Gorton (1593\u20131677), was an early settler and civic leader of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and President of the towns of Providence and Warwick. He was also theologically active, and the leader of a small sect of converts known as Gortonists or Gortonites."@en . . "Rhode Island colonial president" . . . .