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Roger Williams founded it due to being banished from Puritan settlements. He founded Rhode Island mainly to exercise religious tolerance.

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the colony Massachusetts was part of was the new England colony.


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Roger Williams formed the colony of Rhode Island after being banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for believing in the separation of church and state.


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