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William Coddington (c. 1601 – 1 November 1678) was an early magistrate of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and later of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
William Coddington was a colonial governor and religious dissident who founded Newport, Rhode Island, in 1639. Coddington, an assistant in the Massachusetts Bay Company, migrated to the New England colony in 1630.
William Coddington (1601-1678), principal founder of Portsmouth and Newport and governor of Rhode Island, was born in Boston, Lincolnshire, England. By his thirtieth year, he had achieved substance and position.
William Coddington was born about 1601 (deposed aged "about seventy-six years" on 27 September 1677). [1]. He is the presumed son of Robert and Margaret Coddington of Marston, Lincolnshire. Robert was a prosperous yeoman who who died in 1615, leaving a bequest to his son, William.
William Coddington, 1601–78, one of the founders of Rhode Island, probably b. Boston, England. He came to America in 1630 as an officer of the Massachusetts Bay Company and was its treasurer from 1634 to 1636. He supported Anne Hutchinson in the antinomian controversy.
Aug 1, 2013 · William Coddington was elected to govern Rhode Island nearly every year between 1638 and 1648. In 1649 he was elected again, but refused to serve. Why was that, and who was William Coddington? Born in 1601 in Boston, Lincolnshire, William Coddington was a member of the Winthrop party which founded Boston, Massachusetts in 1630.
William Coddington, born in 1601, was no lover of King Charles I. On 3/7/1627 he was on a list of Englishmen who had. resisted making forced loans to the king. The wealthy Coddington was well-regarded by Massachusetts’ governor, John. Winthrop, and was elected as Winthrop’s assistant, as well as treasurer of the colony.
