ROGER WILLIAMS [Illustration: Detail of Roger Williams Statue, Roger Williams Park, Providence] ROGER WILLIAMS BY MAY EMERY HALL _Author of “Dutch Days,” “Jan and Betje,” etc._ [Illustration: _The Seal of Roger Williams_] THE PILGRIM PRESS BOSTON CHICAGO COPYRIGHT 1917 BY FRANK M. SHELDON THE PILGRIM PRESS BOSTON FOREWORD For much of the data contained in this biography of Roger Williams, I am indebted to the following authorities: Narragansett Club Publications; Memoir of Roger Williams, by James D. Knowles; Roger Williams: the Pioneer of Religious Liberty, by Oscar S. Straus; Roger Williams, by Edmund J. Carpenter; Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations; History of the State of Rhode Island, by Samuel Greene Arnold; Rhode Island: Its Making and Its Meaning, by Irving Berdine Richman; Providence in Colonial Times, by Gertrude Selwyn Kimball; Annals of the Town of Providence, by William R. Staples; Winthrop’s Journal. My sincere thanks are due Mr. Howard M. Chapin, Librarian of the Rhode Island Historical Society, for the illustrations of the Charter House, statue of Roger Williams and the Roger Williams seal, also for permission to photograph the Roger Williams compass, and for other substantial assistance rendered in the preparation of this little volume. I desire, too, to express my thanks for the story of the Roger Williams watch given by Mr. Henry Russell Drowne of New York City and photograph of the same. THE AUTHOR. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE