"Springfield Mountain", sung by Woody Guthrie (a songwriter and musician from 1912 Oklahoma), is an American ballad that tells the story of a young man who was bitten by a snake while plowing. The song refers to Timothy Merrick, who was believed to have died on August 7, 1761 in Massachusetts by a snakebite. Woody Guthrie's version of this song is one of the many existing today.
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Rhode Island is the smallest of the thirteen colonies, with a total area of 1,214 square miles. New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island make up the four New England Colonies.
Rhode Island was involved in the Triangular Trade. Molasses was shipped into the colony to manufacture into rum, which they exported to the West Indies where they exchanged the rum for slaves. Lumber, fish, whales, and sometimes agricultural products or livestock were traded.
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