On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger WilliamsHarvard University Press, 31 בינו׳ 2008 - 288 עמודים Banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his refusal to conform to Puritan religious and social standards, Roger Williams established a haven in Rhode Island for those persecuted in the name of the religious establishment. He conducted a lifelong debate over religious freedom with distinguished figures of the seventeenth century, including Puritan minister John Cotton, Massachusetts governor John Endicott, and the English Parliament. |
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... Providence settlement , refusing to take pay- ment in the transaction . In gratitude , Williams secured gifts and favors for Canonicus for the rest of the sachem's life , and their relationship ensured relative peace between the ...
... Providence . " His family and some loyalists soon joined him , to be followed by other so- cial delinquents asked to leave Massachusetts ( including Anne Hutchinson ) , who then established the neighboring towns of Portsmouth , Newport ...
... Providence with his new charter , only to return to London in 1652 with Bap- tist and fellow Rhode Islander John Clarke , again defending the colony's right to independent existence against the incursion of the colonies around it ( and ...
... Providence . With him thus lay the task of convincing not only his own town but also the other three Rhode Island towns to accept the charter he had procured , as well as the accompanying idea that they were now a single commonwealth ...
... Providence decided to establish a citizen mi- litia ; but some members of the colony refused to serve , and many of them ( including Williams's brother , Robert ) invoked a conscientious objection to compulsory military service as ...
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