Williams receives a charter in 1644 uniting…

March 1644 CE

Williams receives a charter in 1644 uniting Providence, Portsmouth, and Newport and creating the colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, named for the principal island in Narragansett Bay and the Providence settlement, which provides a refuge for religious minorities.

In the same year, his The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience is published about religious liberty.

Williams is often credited for originating the First Baptist Church in America, which he is known to have left soon afterwards, exclaiming, "God is too large to be housed under one roof."

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Colonization of the Americas, English View →

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