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Noun: Roger Williams
  1. English clergyman and colonist who was expelled from Massachusetts for criticizing Puritanism; he founded Providence in 1636 and obtained a royal charter for Rhode Island in 1663 (1603-1683)
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Type of: clergyman, colonist, man of the cloth, reverend, settler

Encyclopedia: Roger Williams