Providence Plantations.
very large
A large number of Rhode Islanders were involved in the fanancing and transportation of slaves and Rhode Island had more slaves then any other New England Colony. It was a very profitable enterprise.
No one. Roger Williams left Massachusetts and founded Providence Planatation, which was very much on the mainland. This later expanded into Rhode Island colony, thus named, possibly, because of the islands included.
A very small number of Puritan exiles from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Since Plymouth did not survive, Jamestown was the first successful colony.
Rhode Island is the smallest state in the US, but it is not an island. There is a mainland but there also are islands which are part of the state, some of them small, and some not very small at all.
NEW ANSWER:The colony of Rhode Island was a very good colony to live in, if you wanted to worship the way you wanted without any interference from others of a different religion, or any problems from the government.Also, it was a prosperous colony, although not the biggest in territory or population.
Very few but there was a handy supply as the Puritans were quite good at kicking people out of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and England used Rhode Island as a dumping ground for non conforming Protestants and Free Thinkers.
The first British colony in Australia was Sydney. It was not a large city, but a very small settlement originally established as a penal colony at Port Jackson.
Colonial Rhode Island was predominately Quaker, Presbyterian, Puritan, and Catholic. Since, its neighboring state, Massachusetts, was predominately Puritan, and very strict (Fundamentalistic). Therefore, many who settled Rhode Island were outcasts from other Christian denominations originally based in Massachesetts, and thus the disparate religious population of Rhode Island during the Colonial Period.
The first British colony in Australia was Sydney. It was not a large city, but a very small settlement originally established as a penal colony at Port Jackson.
No- -Rev. William Blackstone was the first European to have settled in what is now Boston, and lived in what is now Rhode Island. The Reverend Blackstone conducted the first Anglican religious services of record in Rhode Island. -Roger Williams is considered the founder of Rhode Island. He was banished from Massachusetts and was the first white settler in Rhode Island; then occupied by the Narragansett Indians. Their chief Canonicus gave him land that the very religious Williams then named Providence.