Memoir of Roger Williams, the Founder of the State of Rhode-Island

MEMOIR
OF
ROGER WILLIAMS,
THE
FOUNDER OF THE STATE
OF
RHODE-ISLAND.

BY JAMES D. KNOWLES,
PROFESSOR OF PASTORAL DUTIES IN THE NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION.

“Roger Williams justly claims the honor of having been the first legislator in the world, in its latter ages, that fully and effectually provided for and established a full, free and absolute liberty of conscience.”

Governor Hopkins.
BOSTON:
LINCOLN, EDMANDS AND CO.
1834.
Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1833,
BY JAMES D. KNOWLES,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.
Lewis & Penniman, Printers.
Bromfield-street.
TO THE
Citizens of Rhode-Island,
THIS VOLUME
IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED BY
THE AUTHOR.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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