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STAPLES, William Read, jurist and historian, born in Providence, Rhode Island, 10 October, 1798 ; died there, 19 October, 1868. After graduation at Brown in 1817, he studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1819. He was associate judge of the Rhode Island supreme court from 1835 till 1854, and was chief justice of that court in 1854-'6. From 1856 until his death he was secretary and treasurer of the Rhode Island society for the encouragement of domestic industry, contributed biographies to its transactions, and was a founder of the Rhode Island historical society, serving as its librarian, secretary, and vice-president. Brown gave him the degree of LL.D. in 1862. He edited the second volume of the Rhode Island historical society's collections, and Samuel Gorton's "Simplicities' Defence against Seven-Headed Policy" (Providence, 1835), and published the "Annals of Providence to 1832" (1843) ; "Documentary History of the Destruction of the 'Gaspe'" (1845); "Proceedings of the First General Assembly for the Incorporation of Providence Plantations in 1647" (1847); and "Rhode Island Form-Book" (1859).
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