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Jane;
 
Using the "Thesaurus of Geographic Names" at
http://www.ahip.getty.edu/tgn_browser/
 
I turned up 40 references to Applegate, unfortunately none of them in Rhode
Island.
 
Good luck
Steve Connolly
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