Mary Barnard, Wife of Roger Williams
Author | : Elizabeth Nicholson White |
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Total Pages | : 39 |
Release | : 195? |
Genre | : New England |
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Author | : Elizabeth Nicholson White |
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Total Pages | : 39 |
Release | : 195? |
Genre | : New England |
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Author | : Bertha Williams Anthony |
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Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 1949 |
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Roger Williams (1604?-1683) was the son of James and Alice Pemberton Williams. After graduating from Cambridge Unversity, he accepted a position of chalpain of the estate of Sir William Masham of Oseso. There he met and married Mary Barnard. Discovering he was to be brought to trial for radical preaching, he and his wife, embarked for America. They arrived at Boston in 1631. They had six children, 1633-1643. In 1637, he purchased land from the Indians and founded Providence, Rhode Island, and later the colony of Rhode Island. Descendants listed are from the files of the Roger Williams Family Association and is not a complete list of descendants. Descendants' names are listed under the Williams child from whom they are descendant, giving generation from Roger Williams, birth and death death dates when known, name of spouse and marriage date when known, and ocassionally place of birth, marriage, or death. Vol. 2 is a supplement to Vol. 1, giving additional material.
Author | : Edwin S. Gaustad |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2005-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199760534 |
The founder of Rhode Island and of the first Baptist Church in America, an original and passionate advocate for religious freedom, a rare New England colonist who befriended Native Americans and took seriously their culture and their legal rights, Roger Williams is the forgotten giant among the first English colonists. Now, Edwin S. Gaustad, a leading expert on the life of Roger Williams, offers a vividly written and authoritative biography of the most far-seeing of the early settlers--the first such biography written for a general audience. Readers follow Roger and Mary Williams on their 1631 journey to Boston, where he soon became embroiled in many controversies, most notably, his claim that the colonists had unjustly taken Native American lands and his argument that civil authorities could not enforce religious duties. Soon banished for these troubling (if farsighted) views, Williams wandered for fourteen weeks in bitter snow until he bought land from the Narragansett Indians and founded Providence, which soon became a sanctuary for religious freedom and a refuge for dissenters of all stripes. The book discusses Williams' journey back to London, where he sought legal recognition of his colony, spread his enlightened views on Native Americans, and (alongside John Milton) fought passionately for religious freedom. Gaustad also describes how the royal charter of Rhode Island, obtained by Williams in 1663, would become the blueprint of religious freedom for many other colonies and a foundation stone for the First Amendment. Here then is a vibrant portrait of a great American who is truly worthy of remembrance.
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Total Pages | : 47 |
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Author | : Roger Williams Family Association |
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Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Rhode Island |
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Author | : Rhode Island Historical Society |
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Total Pages | : 882 |
Release | : 1922 |
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Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780756515966 |
Presents the life and accomplishments of the first American leader to support the separation of church and state, who, after being banned from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, became the founder of Rhode Island.
Author | : William H. Benson |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 671 |
Release | : 2014-12-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1493118404 |
Roger Williams championed liberty of conscience. Cotton Mather promoted acts of kindness and doing good. Roger Williams was born in London but migrated to Boston and then to Salem, Plymouth, and finally to the town he founded, Providence, Rhode Island. Cotton Mather was born in Boston and never strayed from it. Both were trained Puritan ministers, but the young man Roger resigned from the ministry, saying it was "the best callings but (generally) they are the worst trades in the world." Instead, he made his living "trucking with the Indians." Cotton preached at his pulpit at Boston's Old North Church until seven weeks before he passed away. They both wrote books, especially Cotton, who wrote over four hundred. Alike and yet so different, the two men were thinkers and writers in America's early religious history. Author William H. Benson compares and contrasts Roger Williams and Cotton Mather in this, the first of six volumes of The Parallel Lives of the Noble American Religious Thinkers vs. Believers. Additional volumes will include: Thomas Paine and George Whitefield, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Joseph Smith, William James and Mary Baker Eddy, Mark Twain and Billy Graham, and H. L. Menoken and Jim Bakker.
Author | : James P. Byrd |
Publisher | : Mercer University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780865547711 |
Among those banished was Roger Williams, the advocate of religious liberty who also founded the colony of Rhode Island and established the first Baptist church in America. Williams opposed the Puritans' use of the Bible to persecute radicals who rejected the state's established religion. In retaliation against the use of scripture for violent purposes, Williams argued that religious liberty was a biblical concept that offered the only means of eliminating the religious wars and persecutions that plagued the seventeenth century.