ROGER WILLIAMS
Detail of Roger Williams Statue,
Roger Williams Park,Providence
ROGER WILLIAMS
BY
MAY EMERY HALL
Author of “Dutch Days,” “Jan and Betje,” etc.
The Seal of Roger Williams
THE PILGRIM PRESS
BOSTON CHICAGO
Copyright 1917
By FRANK M. SHELDON
THE PILGRIM PRESS
BOSTON
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FOREWORD
For much of the data contained in this biography of Roger Williams, Iam indebted to the following authorities:
Narragansett Club Publications;
Memoir of Roger Williams, by James D. Knowles;
Roger Williams: the Pioneer of Religious Liberty, by Oscar S. Straus;
Roger Williams, by Edmund J. Carpenter;
Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations;
History of the State of Rhode Island, by Samuel Greene Arnold;
Rhode Island: Its Making and Its Meaning, by Irving Berdine Richman;
Providence in Colonial Times, by Gertrude Selwyn Kimball;
Annals of the Town of Providence, by William R. Staples;
Winthrop’s Journal.
My sincere thanks are due Mr. Howard[Pg vi] M. Chapin, Librarian of theRhode Island Historical Society, for the illustrations of the CharterHouse, statue of Roger Williams and the Roger Williams seal, also forpermission to photograph the Roger Williams compass, and for othersubstantial assistance rendered in the preparation of this littlevolume.
I desire, too, to express my thanks for the story of the Roger Williamswatch given by Mr. Henry Russell Drowne of New York City and photographof the same.
The Author.
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CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
|---|---|---|
| Foreword | v | |
| Introduction | xi | |
| I | Out of the Shadows | ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! |