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Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island and an important American
religious leader, arrives in Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony from
England. Williams, a Puritan, worked as a teacher before serving briefly
as a colorful pastor at Plymouth and then at Salem. Within a few years
of his arrival, he alarmed the Puritan oligarchy of Massachusetts by
speaking out against the right of civil authorities to punish religious
dissension and to confiscate Indian land. In October 1635, he was
banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony by the General Court.
After leaving Massachusetts, Williams, with the assistance of the
Narragansett tribe, established a settlement at the junction of two
rivers near Narragansett Bay, located in present-day Rhode Island. He
declared the settlement open to all those seeking freedom of conscience
and the removal of the church from civil matters, and many dissatisfied
Puritans came. Taking the success of the venture as a sign from God,
Williams named the community “Providence.ö
Among those who found a haven in the religious and political refuge of
the Rhode Island Colony were Anne Hutchinson,like Williams, exiled from
Massachusetts for religious reasons; some of the first Jews to settle in
North America; and the Quakers. In Providence, Roger Williams also
founded the first Baptist church in America and edited the first
dictionary of Native American languages.
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