Memoir of Roger Williams, the Founder of the State of Rhode-IslandKnowles, James D. (James Davis)
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Memoir of Roger Williams, the Founder of the State of Rhode-Island
Knowles, James D. (James Davis)
Rhode Island -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Williams, Roger, 1604?-1683
“3. When God wondrously preserved me, and helped me to break to
pieces the Pequods’ negotiation and design, and to make, and promote
and finish, by many travels and charges, the English league with the
Narragansets and Mohegans against the Pequods, and that the English
forces marched up to the Narraganset country against the Pequods, I
gladly entertained, at my house in Providence, the General Stoughton
and his officers, and used my utmost care that all his officers and
soldiers should be well accommodated with us.
“4. I marched up with them to the Narraganset sachems, and brought
my countrymen and the barbarians, sachems and captains, to a mutual
confidence and complacence, each in other.
“5. Though I was ready to have marched further, yet, upon agreement
that I should keep at Providence, as an agent between the Bay and
the army, I returned, and was interpreter and intelligencer,
constantly receiving and sending letters to the Governor and Council
at Boston, &c., in which work I judge it no impertinent digression
to recite (out of the many scores of letters, at times, from Mr.
Winthrop,) this one pious and heavenly prophecy, touching all
New-England, of that gallant man, viz: “If the Lord turn away his
face from our sins, and bless our endeavors and yours, at this time,
against our bloody enemy, we and our children shall long enjoy
peace, in this, our wilderness condition.” And himself and some
other of the Council motioned, and it was debated, whether or no I
had not merited, not only to be recalled from banishment, but also
to be honored with some remark of favor. It is known who hindered,
who never promoted the liberty of other men’s consciences. These
things, and ten times more, I could relate, to show that I am not a
stranger to the Pequod wars and lands, and possibly not far from the
merit of a foot of land in either country, which I have not.
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