Williams, Roger
clergyman, author, was born in 1599 in Wales. He was a famous clergyman, minister at Salem, Mass., but banished from the Massachusetts Bay colony in 1635 on account of his views upon religious liberty. In 1636 he founded the city of Providence, and was the chief citizen of the Rhode Island colony until his death. He was the author of Key Into the Languages of America; The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience; The Bloudy Tenent Yet More Bloudy by Mr. Cotton's Endeavour to Wash It White in the Bloud of the Lambe; Mr. Cotton's Letter Lately Printed, Examined and Answered; and George Fox Digg'd Out of His Burrowes.
He died in 1683 in Rhode Island.