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1635
Rhode Island founder banished from Massachusetts
Religious dissident Roger Williams is banished from the
Massachusetts Bay Colony by the General Court of Massachusetts.
Williams had spoken out against the right of civil authorities to
punish religious dissension and to confiscate Indian land.
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."
Among those who found a haven in the religious and political
refuge of the Rhode Island Colony were Anne Hutchinson-like
Williams, she had been 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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