Official Records
The records of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island are included among Record Group 21 at the:
National Archives at Boston
Frederick C. Murphy Federal Center
380 Trapelo Road
Waltham, Massachusetts 02452-6399
Email: waltham.archives@nara.gov
A guide to the holdings of the regional archives is available at: https://www.archives.gov/boston/finding-aids
A published description of the records is also available in the Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States, 1995 (http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/index.html ).
Bibliography
Graham, D. Kurt. To Bring Law Home: The Federal Judiciary in Early National Rhode Island . DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2010.