Providence Plantations.
Rhode Island
Roger Williams started the colony of Providence Plantation in 1636, which later became U.S. state Rhode Island. It provided a refuge for religious minorities.
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this person founded a settlement that later joined with providence and became part of rhode island
Roger Williams was the leader of the rhode island colony!!!!!!!
William Blackstone was the first Rhode Island settler. But Providence (Rhode Island's capital) was founded as a Rhode Island settlement by Roger Williams.
Some time in 1636.
It became a US State in 1790.
Roger Williams founded Rhode Island when he was banished from Massachusetts. He wanted to create a settlement with full freedom of religion.
Roger Williams, a Salem minister, was banished from Massachusetts Bay for his belief about the separation of church and state. He founded Providence Plantation, a settlement with complete religious freedom, in 1636. It later became known as Rhode Island.
The colony that Roger Williams started was the Rhode Island "Sewer" Colony in 1636. Anne Hutchinson did not start a colony because after the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay colony exiled her for being a religious dissident she and her family were killed by Indian's before reaching New York.