Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1917 — Roger Willlame. [ARTICLE]

Roger Willlame.

Roger Williams was the founder of the state of Rhode Island. He was born in London in- either 1604 or 1605. He refused to join the congregation at Boston because the people would not make public declaration of their repentance for having beenln communion with the Church of England. Banished from the Massachusetts Bay colony in 1635, he escaped to the shores of Nanragansett bay, accompanied by a few of the adherents of the extreme puritanlsm which he advocated; he purchased land of the Indians and founded the city of Providence in 1686. Philadelphia Ledger.