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Puritan (Ohio, United States) (search for this): entry williams-roger
Williams, Roger 1599-1683
Founder of Rhode Island; born in Wales in 1599; went to London at an early age, where he reported sermons in short-hand, and attracted the attention of Sir Edward Coke, who befriended him in his efforts to obtain a collegiate education.
He was at Pembroke College in 1623, and graduated in January, 1627.
He took orders in the Church of England, but imbibed dissenting ideas, and came to Boston in 1630, where he was regarded as an extreme Puritan.
He was accompanied by his wife, Mary, a young Englishwoman, who shared in the joys and sorrows of his long life.
At Boston he became obnoxious to the authorities because he denied the right of magistrates to interfere with the consciences of men, and soon went to Salem, where he became assistant pastor of the church there.
He was complained of by the Bostonians because he had refused to join with the congregation there until they should make a public declaration of their repentance for having communion with t
New England (United States) (search for this): entry williams-roger
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Williams, Roger 1599-1683
Founder of Rhode Island; born in Wales in 1599; went to London at an early age, where he reported sermons in short-hand, and attracted the attention of Sir Edward Coke, who befriended him in his efforts to obtain a collegiate education.
He was at Pembroke College in 1623, and graduated in January, 1627.
He took orders in the Church of England, but imbibed dissenting ideas, and came to Boston in 1630, where he was regarded as an extreme Puritan.
He was accompanied by his wife, Mary, a young Englishwoman, who shared in the joys and sorrows of his long life.
At Boston he became obnoxious to the authorities because he denied the right of magistrates to interfere with the consciences of men, and soon went to Salem, where he became assistant pastor of the church there.
He was complained of by the Bostonians because he had refused to join with the congregation there until they should make a public declaration of their repentance for having communion with th
John Milton (search for this): entry williams-roger
George Fox (search for this): entry williams-roger
Roger Williams (search for this): entry williams-roger
Williams, Roger 1599-1683
Founder of Rhode Island; born in Wales in 1599; went to London at an the civil power to impose faith and worship.
Williams made some slight concessions, and the time fo mersion by a layman—Ezekiel Holliman—and then Williams baptized Holliman and ten others, and a church was organized.
Williams soon doubted the validity of his own baptism and that of the others.
He ings, until a charter was procured in 1644 by Williams, who went to England for it. On the voyage th th of Charles I. trouble in the colony caused Williams to be sent to England again, where he remaine their preservation.
In the autumn of 1654 Williams was elected president, or governor, of Rhode calling themselves Friends, or Quakers.
But Williams refused to persecute them.
In 1672 he engage gnacious in support of his views.
Afterwards Williams published a controversial work, entitled Geor towns.
Notwithstanding the bad treatment Roger Williams received from Massachusetts, he was always
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Rube Burrows (search for this): entry williams-roger
Thomas Burroughs (search for this): entry williams-roger
Ezekiel Holliman (search for this): entry williams-roger