Warner, John, - 1654

John Warner, one of early setters at Warwick, RI, migrated to New England and settled in Providence in 1637. He was one of the original founders of Shawomet, where he was involved in the fraudulent purchase of sachem Pumham’s land in Jan. 1643. After the Massachusetts court sentenced him for the fraudulent purchase, he served a short sentence in Boston and returned to Shawomet.  There he subsequently held several important civil offices, including town clerk, deputy and assistant. On April 24, 1652, he was disfranchised from the town. Warner died on a voyage from England in 1654. Adelos Gorton, The Life and Times of Samuel Gorton: The Founders and the Founding of the Republic: A Section of Early United States History and a History of the Colony of Providence and Rhode Island Plantations in the Narragansett Indian Country Now the State of Rhode Island, 1592-1636-1677-1687 (Philadelphia: [s.n.], 1907), 165.