FOREWORD v INTRODUCTION xi I OUT OF THE SHADOWS 3 II WESTWARD, HO! 15 III NEW NEIGHBORS 23 IV THE WAR OF WORDS 38 V “A CORNER FOR THE PERSECUTED” 52 VI THE PEQUOT WAR 68 VII THE INDIAN KEY 80 VIII IN QUEST OF THE CHARTER 93 IX NARRAGANSETT DAYS 108 X THE CHARTER ON TRIAL 120 XI THE SECOND MISSION 128 XII ROGER WILLIAMS AS COLONIAL PRESIDENT 142 XIII THE COMING OF THE QUAKERS 156 XIV ROGER WILLIAMS AS CITIZEN 169 XV KING PHILIP’S WAR 185 XVI BACK TO THE SHADOWS 200 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS DETAIL OF ROGER WILLIAMS STATUE _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE ENTRANCE TO CHARTER HOUSE, LONDON 10 THE ROGER WILLIAMS TREE 46 THE WILLIAMS STREET MONUMENT 56 THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF PROVIDENCE 78 CANONICUS BRIDGE, THE BETSEY WILLIAMS COTTAGE, ROGER WILLIAMS PARK 120 STATUE OF ROGER WILLIAMS, ROGER WILLIAMS PARK 162 ROGER WILLIAMS’ POCKET-COMPASS, SUN-DIAL AND WATCH 206 INTRODUCTION The new Life of Roger Williams is certain to receive a cordial welcome and a wide reading. It has been eight years since Dr. Edmund J. Carpenter published his “Roger Williams, a Study of the Life, Times and Character of a Political Pioneer,” and twenty-three years since the admirable work by Oscar S. Straus, entitled “Roger Williams, the Pioneer of Religious Liberty,” appeared. In the meantime Irving B. Richman has given to the public his able volumes on “Rhode Island, its Making and its Meaning,” which naturally and inevitably portrayed the character and service of its great founder. Rhode Island was but the incarnation of the views and principles of Roger Williams.