Fox Island (Rhode Island)

The Native Americans called the island "Nanaquonset" (also "Nonequasset" or "Sonanoxet.")

The island was purchased from Native Americans by Randall Holden and Samuel Gorton in 1659.

[1] In the 1860s a Christian preacher named Captain Jimmie Hammond became the first full-time resident of the island where he lived with his chickens and cat.

William Pendleton Chapman, a pastor at the nearby Quidnessett Church, featured the island in his adventure book titled “Budd Boyd’s Triumph: The Boy Firm of Fox Island.”[3] Various other private owners have owned the island since its first habitation.

Since 2000 it has been privately owned by a corporation which uses a large wind generator on the east side of the island.