History of the State of Rhode Island And Providence Plantations 1
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I. Col. Rec, iii. 140-5. R. I. H. C, iii. 229-38. ^ Both papers are in Br. S. P. 0., New Eng., vol. viii., and the former is printed in Antiq. of Conn. p. 159. " Br. S. P. 0., N. Eng., vol. iii. p. 319. DEATH OF ROGER WILLIAMS. 475 we have recorded — tlie death of Roger Williams. More chap. than half a century had elapsed since this ardent friend ■^^ of freedom landed on the shores of Massachusetts, and 16 8 3. forty-seven years had passed away since, twice exiled for opinion's sake, he erected... in this wilderness the altar of free worship. He had seen the powerful tribes, that first welcomed their " white brother " to the hospitalities of the forest, melt away beneath the advance of a civiliza- tion which he had heralded ; and he had lived to see his little band of six associates grown into a prosperous colo- ny amid persecution, pestilence, and war. With devout thanksgiving he recognized the Supreme Power who had preserved his infant colony through so many dangers, to perpetuate and disseminate the eternal principles of civil and religious freedom which he had sought to establish.
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