James DeWolf died as the second wealthiest person in the United States. By the end of 1820, the DeWolf family had trafficked and enslaved over 10,000 African people. In Cuba, sugar and molasses, harvested/created by enslaved Africans, was brought back to Rhode Island to DeWolf-owned distilleries. Beginning in 1769 and continuing until 1820 (over a decade after the slave trade was outlawed in the Atlantic), the DeWolf family trafficked people out of West Africa, enslaving them and bringing them to work on DeWolf-owned plantations, or selling them to be auctioned at ports in places such as Havana, Cuba and Charleston, South Carolina. James DeWolf, a leading slave trader, later became a United States Senator from Rhode Island. Bristol and Rhode Island became a center of slave trading. The DeWolf family was among the earliest settlers of Bristol. : 11 Bristol was a town of Massachusetts until the Crown transferred it to the Rhode Island Colony in 1747. A variant of the Indian name Metacomet is now the name of a main road in Bristol: Metacom Avenue ( RI Route 136). Other settlers included John Gorham and Richard Smith. : 11 'Massasoit's Seat' is a rocky ledge on the mountain which was a lookout site for enemy ships on Mount Hope Bay.Īfter the war concluded, four Boston merchants-Stephen Burton, Nathaniel Byfield, Nathaniel Oliver, and John Walley-purchased a tract of land known as 'Mount Hope Neck and Poppasquash Neck' as part of the Plymouth Colony. Metacomet made nearby Mount Hope (a corruption of the Pokanoket word Montaup) his base of operations he died following an ambush by Captain Benjamin Church on August 12, 1676. : 10 King Philip's War was a conflict between the Plymouth settlers and the Pokanokets and allied tribes, and it began in the neighboring area of Swansea, Massachusetts. They had previously suffered from a series of plagues which killed off large segments of their population, and their leader, the Massasoit Osamequin, befriended the early settlers. History Early colonization īefore the Pilgrims arrived in 1620, the Pokanokets occupied much of Southern New England, including Plymouth. Prominent communities include Portuguese-Americans, mostly Azoreans, and Italian-Americans. The town's school system is united with that of the neighboring town of Warren. Major industries include boat building and related marine industries, manufacturing, and tourism. It is a deep water seaport named after Bristol, England.

The population of Bristol was 22,493 at the 2020 census. Bristol is a town in Bristol County, Rhode Island, United States, as well as the county seat.

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