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Roger Williams

American religious leader
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Category: History & Society
Born:
1603?, London, England
Died:
January 27/March 15, 1683, Providence, Rhode Island [U.S.]
Founder:
Rhode Island
Awards And Honors:
Hall of Fame (1920)
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Roger Williams (born 1603?, London, England—died January 27/March 15, 1683, Providence, Rhode Island [U.S.]) English colonist in New England, founder of the colony of Rhode Island and pioneer of religious liberty. The son of a merchant tailor, he was a protégé of the jurist Sir Edward Coke and was educated at Cambridge. In 1630 he left his post as chaplain to Sir William Masham, which had brought him into contact with such politically active Puritans as Oliver Cromwell and Thomas Hooker, to pursue his by-then completely Nonconformist religious ideals in New England. Arriving in Boston in 1631, Williams refused to ...(100 of 378 words)

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