paragraph_text: São João do Rio do Peixe is a municipality in the state of Paraíba in the Northeast Region of Brazil.

paragraph_text: Bethel is a town in Pitt County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 1,577 at the 2010 Census. The town is a part of the Greenville Metropolitan Area located in North Carolina's Inner Banks region. Confusingly, there are three other towns in the state named "Bethel." One is between Edenton and Hertford in the "Finger Counties" region in the Northeast corner of the state, another is in the North-Central part in Caswell County and the third is located in the Mountain Region of North Carolina in Haywood County.

paragraph_text: Tibau do Sul is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Norte in the Northeast region of Brazil.

paragraph_text: Squaw Island is located at the north end of Canandaigua Lake, near the city of Canandaigua, New York, United States. It is one of two islands in the 11 Finger Lakes. Frequently it is described as New York's smallest state park; however, while it is one of the state's smallest protected areas, it is not formally designated as a state park, but rather it is a "unique area" managed by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.

paragraph_text: The Dutch East India Company (1800) and British East India Company (1858) were dissolved by their respective governments, who took over the direct administration of the colonies. Only Thailand was spared the experience of foreign rule, although, Thailand itself was also greatly affected by the power politics of the Western powers. Colonial rule had a profound effect on Southeast Asia. While the colonial powers profited much from the region's vast resources and large market, colonial rule did develop the region to a varying extent.

paragraph_text: Tortilla Flat is a small unincorporated community in far eastern Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. It is located in the central part of the state, northeast of Apache Junction. It is the last surviving stagecoach stop along the Apache Trail. According to the Gross Management Department of Arizona's main U.S. Post Office in Phoenix, Tortilla Flat is presumed to be Arizona's smallest official "community" having a U.S. Post Office and voter's precinct. The town has a population of 6. Tortilla Flat can be reached by vehicles on State Route 88, via Apache Junction.

paragraph_text: Coronel João Pessoa is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Norte in the Northeast region of Brazil.

paragraph_text: As of 2015, Camarines Sur is the region's largest province in area and population, occupying 5,481.6 km (2,116.5 sq mi) or around 30.4% of the total land area with a population of 1,952,544. Catanduanes is the smallest in area as well as population with only 1,511.5 km (583.6 sq mi) or 8.4% of the total regional area and a population of 260,964.

paragraph_text: Karvel Anderson (born June 3, 1991) is an American basketball player from Elkhart, Indiana. Anderson played two years, from 2010–12, at Glen Oaks Community College then from 2012–14 at the D-I level for the Robert Morris Colonials of the Northeast Conference. Anderson was named Northeast Conference Player of the Year in 2014.

paragraph_text: In 1636, Roger Williams settled on land granted to him by the Narragansett tribe at the tip of Narragansett Bay after being banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his religious views. He called the site ``Providence Plantations ''and declared it a place of religious freedom.

paragraph_text: The Kingdom of Bamum (also spelled Bamoum, Bamun, Bamoun, or Mum) (1394–1884) was a pre-colonial Central African state in what is now northwest Cameroon. It was founded by the Mbum, a Bantu ethnic group from northeast Cameroon. Its capital was the ancient walled city of Fumban.

paragraph_text: Jalostotitlán is a town and municipality located in the northeast corner of the state of Jalisco, Mexico, in a region known as Los Altos.

paragraph_text: Population, area and density Rank State Division / Region Population (2015 est.) Land area (sq. mi) Density (sq. mi) Geog. sort 43 39! Rhode Island 1,056,298 50! 1,034 04! 1,017.1 01! NEng 15 21! Massachusetts 6,794,422 45! 7,800 06! 858.0 02! NEng 29 07! Connecticut 3,590,886 48! 4,842 09! 742.6 03! NEng 41 29! New Hampshire 1,330,608 44! 8,953 33! 147.8 04! NEng 49 45! Vermont 626,043 43! 9,217 48! 68.0 05! NEng 42 19! Maine 1,329,328 39! 30,843 56! 43.1 06! NEng 52! 2 55! New England 14,727,585 59! 62,688 21! 233.2 07! NEast 11 30! New Jersey 11! 8,899,339 46! 7,354 02! 1,210.1 08! MdAtl 32! New York 03! 19,651,127 30! 47,126 07! 420.1 09! MdAtl 6 38! Pennsylvania 06! 12,773,801 32! 44,743 18! 285.5 10! MdAtl 51! 1 53! Mid-Atlantic 54! 41,324,267 58! 99,223 14! 416.5 11! NEast 60! 1 61! Northeast 63! 55,943,073 63! 161,912 16! 345.5 12! USA

paragraph_text: Pine Lake is the smallest city in DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The population was 730 at the 2010 census.

paragraph_text: Pedra Azul (Portuguese for "blue stone") is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Minas Gerais, located in the northeast of the state, in the Jequitinhonha River valley region. The population in 2007 was 24,851 in a total area of 1,619 km².

paragraph_text: Jardim do Seridó is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Norte in the Northeast region of Brazil.

paragraph_text: União, Piauí is a municipality in the state of Piauí in the Northeast region of Brazil. As of 2010, União had a population of 42,657.

paragraph_text: Nanuque is a municipality in the state of Minas Gerais, in the southeastern region of Brazil, belonging to Mucuri Valley and Region Nanuque. The relief consists of inselbergs and seas of hills, and the Serra dos Aimorés as predominant characteristic. Considered the 79th most populous city in the state, the 2nd Northeast 1st miner and its region, with 40,834 inhabitants according to the 2010 census. According to DENATRAN its fleet is 17,782 motor vehicles. As a regional hub ten municipalities, their total area 116,545 inhabitants and a total area of 8471.872 km ². Nanuque, cut the highway Ox (BR-418), reference is to be en route to the northern coast of Espirito Santo state by state highway LMG-719 and the southern coast of Bahia state by the then federal highway BR-418, of which is 605 km to the northeast of the state capital Belo Horizonte and 1257 km east of the federal capital Brasília.

paragraph_text: The states of North Eastern Region are officially recognised under the North Eastern Council (NEC), constituted in 1971 as the acting agency for the development of the north eastern states. Long after induction of NEC, Sikkim formed part of the North Eastern Region as the eighth state in 2002. India's Look - East connectivity projects connect Northeast India to China and ASEAN.

paragraph_text: Tenente Laurentino Cruz is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Norte in the Northeast region of Brazil.

Question: Who was in charge of the colony that became the smallest state in the northeast region?
Answer: Roger Williams