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    General Roger Williams papers

    Scope and Contents

    The General series contains materials not closely related to the other series in the collection. Included are newspaper clippings broadly related to personal and professional events in Williams' life. There are notes and fragments related to Williams' daily life like laundry receipts. Also there is a file of letters, mostly addressed to Ms. L. Hurley, who is of an unknown relation to General Roger Williams. There are the checkbooks of Williams' son-in-law, Lucas B. Combs, as well as, a personal letter from Roger Williams, Jr.

    Blank supply forms, undated

    Letters to Ms. L. Hurley and receipts, 1915-1921

    Lucas B. Combs checkbook, 1919 March-1922 April

    Lucas B. Combs checkbook, 1924 March-1925 September

    Notes and fragments, undated

    Roger D. Williams biography typed, undated

    The Unwanted Child by Florence Edna May, 1923

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    Roger Williams

    English Protestant theologian, author, and founder of Rhode Island (1603–1683)

    For other people named Roger Williams, see Roger Williams (disambiguation).

    Roger Williams (c. 1603 – March 1683)[1] was an English-born New EnglandPuritan 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. He was a staunch advocate for religious freedom, separation of church and state, and fair dealings with the Native Americans.[2]

    Williams was expelled bygd the Puritan leaders from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and he established Providence Plantations in 1636 as a refuge offering what he termed "liberty of conscience". In 1638, he founded the First Baptist Church in amerika in Providence.[3][4] Williams studied the language of the New England Native Americans and published the first book-length study

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    Roger Williams Biography and Dedication to the Freedom of Conscience

    1631: From England to America

    Roger Williams left England because he felt they were on the wrong path. Specifically, he took great offense at religious persecution as well as persecution for thinking or believing something. For sure he felt individuals had a God-given right to believe whatever they believed. Through valid arguments, you can attempt to change their beliefs, but ultimately it is their choice. It is likely that if Roger Williams stayed in England, he would have been persecuted.

    Roger Williams left England for New England in 1630. This was about 5 years after King Charles I came to power. At the time, there was a general distrust of Charles’ religious and political policies which eventually led to a civil war starting about 1642 and ending with Charles’ beheading in 1649.

    Roger and his wife Mary traveled on the “Lyon” ship. They traveled along with about 20 passengers from B