No, Rhode Island was not a type of joint stock colony. It was considered a type of royal colony because it was settled under a royal charter.
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The first successful british colonly was Jamestown, VA!
The first English colony was established on Roanoke Island, in what is now North Carolina, in 1585. A second colony, the famous Lost Colony, was established two years later, but disappeared. A third colony, established in 1607 at Jamestown in Virginia, was more successful.
Jamestown became England's first royal colony in the Americas in 1619