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It was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, who had been banished from Massachusetts Bay colony for his unorthodox religious beliefs. Williams and five dissenter companions, after canoeing along the Moshassuck River to what is now called College Hill, found a freshwater spring. From the Narragansett Indian sachems Canonicus and Miantonomi he purchased the surrounding land, which he named for "God's merciful providence." Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/480628/Providence

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