- Roger Williams is a famous leader and founder of Rhode Island Colony for religious dissidents who wanted to worship freely and believed in separation of church and state.
- He was born on December 21, 1603.
- He was born in Smithfield, London, England.
- James and Alice Williams were his parents.
- Roger Williams was known a bright student and was even an apprenticed for a famous lawyer by the name of Dir Edwards Coke.
- He became a Puritan while studying at Cambridge.
- He later became a chaplain for a very wealthy Puritan named Sir William Macham.
- Roger Williams wife was Mary Barnard on December 15, 1629.
- They was the father of six children.
- Him and his wife moved for the New World to Boston on 1631.
- He refused to work in Boston Church so instead went to Plymouth Colony to later join Salem Church.
- Roger Williams was banished form Massachusetts for his teaching and left to Rhode Island.
- His beliefs were to start a democratic land.
- In 1652 Roger Williams returned to England.
- Anne Hutchinson as well as other followers joined the settlement established by Roger Williams.
- Roger Williams died on April 1, 1683 in Providence.