The Landing Place of Roger Williams

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Providence, R. J. Landing Place of Roger Williams. THE LANDING PLACE OF ROGER WILLIAMS

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THE HUGH C. LEIGHTON CO., MANUFACTURERS, PORTLAND, ME. U. S. A. L1258 QUALITY MESSAGE MAY BE WRITTEN ON THIS SILE To the memory of Roger Williams, apostle of soul liberty, founder of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, this monument is dedicated by the Providence Asso- ciation of Mechanics and Manufacturers. Below this spot, then at the waters edge, stood the rock on which, according to tradition, Roger Williams, an exile, for his devotion to freedom of conscience, landed 1636, and hav- ing a sense of God's merciful providence unto me in my distress, called the place Providence, I desired it might be for a shelter for persons distressed for consoience. (Signed) Roger Williams. PRO INDAM e7912 Thought perhaps que might like This. E.B.A. E.R. Miss Bertha A. Goff Bot 104 Attlebow mass. ARST