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The reason it's a colony is because people settle their back when people came from England

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Roger Williams, a Puritan minister, arrived in New England in 1631, to become pastor the church of Salem. Soon his preaching became a source of concern to the Bay Colony authorities.

Williams felt strongly that the Indians should be paid for the lands taken by the colonists. In addition, he spoke of the need to keep his church free from evil influence - especially in its contact with the government.

Roger Williams would be banished from the Massachusetts Colony. In the fall of 1635, Williams fled with a few friends south to Narragansett country. There on the shore of the Narragansett Bay he built a hut and called it Providence.

The following spring which would be in 1636, his Salem congregation joined him, and Williams' hut became a village. Soon many other people came to join the settlement. So, the colony of Rhode Island, was founded by Roger Williams, in 1636.

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