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About Robert Burdick
Robert Burdick, sometimes written as Robert Burdett, was a British American legislator and deacon for the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Burdick was one of the earliest settlers in what is now known as Westerly, Rhode Island. Burdick is best known for playing a leading role in a border dispute between Rhode Island and the Massachusetts Bay Colony over lands along the Pawcatuck River. In 1661 he was arrested and jailed by Massachusetts authorities in a test case over territorial rights that were enshrined in the Rhode Island Royal Charter. Burdick served several terms as a Deputy in the General Court of Rhode Island later in his career from 1680 to 1685.
Everything about Robert Burdick →- Occupation
- magistrate, deacon, legislator
- Citizenship
- England, Thirteen Colonies, British America
- Born
- November 2, 1630
- Died
- October 25, 1692