Roger Williams wished to start a new settlement because he wanted to be fair with the Native Americans
He was expelled from the Massachusetts Colony. He believed in religious tolerance and allowing people to worship in their own way. He founded Rhode Island to provide a place for people to experience religious freedom.
They were not welcome in their previous settlement and did not want to return to England.
No Roger Williams did not govern the city that would become New York. Roger Williams established Rhode Island.
Roger Williams founded Rhode Island when he was banished from Massachusetts. He wanted to create a settlement with full freedom of religion.
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Rhode Island
1942
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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.
Roger Williams was kicked out of Massachusetts for spreading "new and dangerous rumors".
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