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Possibly named in honor of the Greek Island or was named Roode Eylandt by Adriaen Block, Dutch explorer, because of its red clay
Not from a person or place but from the red clay that was on the islands. The Dutch West India Company called it Red Islands or Roodt Eyelandts which was Anglicized to Rhode Island.

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