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  1. Aug 25, 2015 · Famous Scholars & Educators. Roger Williams was a political and religious leader best remembered for his strong stance on the separation of church and state and founding the colony of Rhode...

  2. Apr 16, 2024 · Roger Williams (born 1603?, London, England—died January 27/March 15, 1683, Providence, Rhode Island [U.S.]) was an English colonist in New England, founder of the colony of Rhode Island and pioneer of religious liberty.

  3. Although Roger Williams is not a household name, academics have made him one of the most studied figures of pre-Revolutionary America. Among them, as among his contemporaries, he has been ...

  4. Jan 25, 2021 · Roger Williams (l. 1603-1683 CE) was a Puritan separatist minister best known for his conflict with both the Plymouth Colony and Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1633-1635 CE, resulting in his banishment and founding of the colony of Providence, Rhode Island.

  5. May 18, 2018 · R oger Williams was a religious leader whose spiritual journey forced him to leave one church and then another. He began his quest in 1636, five years after he arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, when he became an enemy of the Puritans (those who advocated strict moral and spiritual codes).

  6. Feb 26, 2015 · Roger Williams - Roger Williams National Memorial (U.S. National Park Service) Deed to the settlement at Moshassuck, called Providence signed by Narragansett Sachems Cononicus and Miantonomi and Roger Williams. A Radical Vision. This is the story of the founder of Rhode Island, the first secular State.

  7. Roger Williams National Memorial commemorates the life and legacy of this influential figure. Born in London in 1603, Williams became an ordained minister in the Church of England. Even though he was an Anglican clergyman, William maintained personal beliefs that were more like those of the Puritans.

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