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Roger Williams was expelled from Massachusetts for favoring religious freedom, ironically, in a place established by those seeking religious freedom. He is considered the founder of Rhode Island.

In 1636, Roger Williams was a dissenting Puritan minister and theologian in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was convicted of heresy and left to found the colony of Providence on the estuaries farther south (east of Long Island Sound), which were later named the Providence River.

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