Talk:Providence Plantations
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The premise of this article is completely wrong
edit"providence plantations" was never the name of a settlement. That was just the name used in the royal charter as a catchall term for Providence and surrounding/associated settlements. This should just be a redirect to Rhode Island. This article has more info[1]
As England began to dominate commercial seafaring, in 1622 the king created what is commonly known as the “Board of Trade,” but whose official name remains to this day, almost 400 years later, “The Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council appointed for the consideration of all matters relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations.” Put more simply, “plantation” was the business buzzword of the early 1600s culture of economic imperialism in which Coke and Williams were enmeshed. When the parliamentary charter was finally replaced in 1663 by a royal charter, it recognized “our Island called Rhode Island and the rest of the Colonie of Providence Plantations.”