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The political and religious leader Roger Williams (c. 1603?-1683) is best known for founding the state of Rhode Island and advocating separation of church and state in Colonial America. He...
Roger Williams (c. 1603 – March 1683) [1] was an English-born New England Puritan minister, theologian, and author who founded Providence Plantations, which became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and later the State of Rhode Island.
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.
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 Island.
Roger Williams organized the first Baptist church in America. He was also founder of the state of Rhode Island. Those are remarkable accomplishments for a man who was shunned and persecuted by others who came to the New World to find religious liberty.
In 1644, Williams returned to Providence from England with a charter that established Rhode Island as a democracy and left decisions concerning religion to majority rule.
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.
In 1636, Williams founded the settlement of Providence based on those guiding principles. Born in London around 1603, Roger Williams was a deeply faithful man and an ordained minister in the Anglican Church.
As chief sachem of the Wampanoag, Massasoit welcomed Roger and sheltered him through the winter. That spring Massasoit gave him a tract of land along the SeekonkRiver in what is now East Providence. A handful of Roger’s followers came down from Salem and began to plant fields and build houses.
This is the story of the founder of Rhode Island, the first secular State. More than 300 years ago this fiery Christian preacher believed that the wall of separation between Church and State was essential for all other liberties.