"The town of Warren, Rhode Island, was set off from Swansea, Mass., in 1746. Prior to this time as a part of Swansea it was known as "Brooks pasture," and contained about 300 acres. The town of Barrington, which was set off from Swansea in 1718, was included with and known as a part of the new town of Warren. In 1770 the town was again divided, the eastern part resuming the name of Barrington.
     "The region constituting the towns of Bristol, Warren, and Barrington in Rhode Island, and the greater part of Swansea and Seekonk in Massachusetts, was called by the Indians Pokonoket, and was occupied by the tribe of Indians known as the Wampaniags [sic], under the immediate government of Massasoit. The hill in Bristol the Indians called Montop. The English renamed it Mount Hope. This gave to the whole neck from Bristol to Miles Bridge the name of Mount Hope Neck. On this neck were the towns of Montop (Bristol), Sowams, or Sowamset (Warren), and Kickemuit. There were eighteen houses in Warren at the commencement of the war with Phillip in 1675, all of which were destroyed.
     "The Baptist Church was organized in Warren in 1764, Nov. 15, with 58 members, 35 of whom came from the Swansea Church. The Reverend James Manning of Nassau, New Jersey, was chosen as pastor. He commenced teaching a Latin school, which was afterwards organized as Brown University. The school was opened in the home of Allen Cole, just north of Cole's Hotel."

Ernest Byron Cole, "The Descendants of James Cole of Plymouth 1633," 13.