The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1835-02-11
? MEMOIR OF RHODE-ISLAND.
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BIOGRAPHY OF ROGER WILLIAMS.

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1898, was educated at Oxford, was admitted to Or
ders in the church of England, and officiated tor
sometime as a minister of that church; but becom-
inp puritan, he rendered himself obnoxious to the |
laws in England and embarked for America. lie
with his wife. whose name was Mary, arrived on the
5th of February, 1881, and on the April following
he was called by the church of Salem to be an elder
under Mr. SHELTON their Pastor. Finding hls sltua-
ton had excited the jealousy OF the local govern
ment i'm the COLONY he soon after removed to Piym-
outh where he was engaged as an assistant to Mr.
Smith, Pastor of the Plymouth Church, IN which
place he remained until his discourses upon rehg-
ious federation offended many OF his hearers wheh
he returned again to Salem and was settled there al
ter Mr.. Sketon's death in 1884. While there, as
we'll as in Plymouth he maintained the character OF
8" Cody and jealous preacher" From MS nrst
coming to the Massachusetts " he appears to have
been viewed with a jealous eye" for preaching a
painst taking the Indians lands without their con-
sent, and various other practices, and ceremonies
there established but that which made him most
obnoxious was his insisting that the magistrates had
no right to deal in, or punish for matters OF con-
science and religion" A decree of banishment was
mart the colony in six weeks, but subsequently he
was permitted to remain till spring. In January
however an officer SENT by the Governor ana
Assistants to apprehend and carry him on board
vessel then in Nantasket roads bound to England
of which he received private information, and mme-
d;ateIy removed to Seakonk, and from thence to
Providence in the Spring. 1.-The field he first plan
ted composes Watcher" the present residence OF
his excellency James Fenner, and the land original
" set off to Williams adjoining this field has con-
tinued to the present day in the possession OF his
II descendants" He had six children viz: Mary, Free
born, Providence, Marcy, Daniel and Joseph the
descendants of whom ore numerous. The part
which Mr. Williams took in establishing the colony
of II. Island, has already been treated of in these
memoirs. He died at Providence in April 1858,
a aged "a years, and was buried under arms IN his
own family buryng ground with all respect due from
90 the people of the town of which he had been the
founder.
1854.
-- AT the General Assembly held at Newport at the
house of VIM. Maize the 9th day of May 1884, and
adjourned to the next day being the annual election.
Deputies.
E.. Newport.
James Barker, Sen. Edward Thurston, Sen.
Thomas Ward Walter Newbury
Is Philip Smith John Woodman
Providence.
.,,. S,ephen Arnold John Whpple, Jr.
Henry Brown Epenetus oiney
=. Portsmouth.
VIM. Wooden Francis Brayton
Caleb Arnold Robert Dennis
Warwick.
Benz. Smith Thomas 'reene
Samuel Gorton Moses Lippitt
Westerly.
Jeffrey Champlin John Babcock
..t New Shorehom. Kingston.
John Rathbone None
East Greenuieh.
George Vaughan Thomas Fry
Jamestown.
Ebenczer Siocum Caleb Carr, Jr.
by Election were Chosen.
VIM. CODDlNGTON, Governor.
WALTER CLARKE, Dep. Gov
...... Assistants.
It. John Eastop Caleb Carr
Boo John Coppeshall Arthur Fenner
Joseph Jencks Richard Arnold
John Abro George Lawton
Jobn Greene IA Thomas Greene
= res- John Sanford, Recorder.
Edmund Calverly, Sergeant.
Weston Clarke, Treasurer
John Pocoche, Attorney.
John Pocockc, Solicitor.
John Coggeshall, Major for the Island
John Greene, Major for the main land.
This Assembly passed an act confirming the linC
io.-sGa,.b ,.bc iaxas af Ncvpor, and rensmonb, and