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Definition of Roger Williams
1. Noun. English clergyman and colonist who was expelled from Massachusetts for criticizing Puritanism; he founded Providence in 1636 and obtained a royal charter for Rhode Island in 1663 (1603-1683).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Roger Williams
Literary usage of Roger Williams
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"Knowles's Memoir of Roger Williams, founder of the state of Rhode Island, Boston,
... Straus's Roger Williams. New York, 1894. Most of these are eulogies, ..."
2. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1896)
"EARLY STATEMENTS RELATIVE TO THE EARLY LIFE OF Roger Williams. ... Of Roger
Williams he says : " Mr. Williams was a native of Wales, born in the year 1598, ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society by American Antiquarian Society (1889)
"KNOWLES in his "Memoir of Roger Williams the Founder of ... Who then was the
Roger Williams whom Prince records in his ..."
4. A History of American Christianity by Leonard Woolsey Bacon (1897)
"No commonwealth can boast a nobler and purer name for its founder than the name
of Roger Williams. Rhode Island, founded in generous reaction from the ..."
5. History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations by Samuel Greene Arnold (1859)
"Roger Williams had scarcely established himself at 1636. ... THE early career of
Roger Williams has been the subject of frequent and labored investigation, ..."
6. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gillett Pond, William Abbatt (1890)
"THE STORY OF Roger Williams RETOLD The beginning of Roger Williams's ...
Whether these documents prove anything more than that Roger Williams was at one ..."
7. Collections by Massachusetts Historical Society (1871)
"Roger Williams* TO JOHN WINTHROP, JR. ... therefore maligned & traduced by Wm
Harris J * For a notice of Roger Williams, and other letters from him, see IV. ..."
8. Selections from Early American Writers, 1607-1800 by William B. Cairns (1909)
"Roger Williams [Roger Williams, famous as the founder of Rhode Island and the
... Roger Williams was a man of wide interests, and of intense and sometimes ..."
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