Great Americans and their noble deeds; containing the lives of almost fifty of our nation's heroes and heroines .. . ovisit an old friend, and had themfined and imprisoned. At length it became neces-sary for Rhode Island to have anew charter in order to settlethe difiiculties that were con-stantly coming up between thetowns on the mainland and thoseon the island. Williams wasbegged to go again to England,and finally consented, though hehad to sell hi^ trading-house todo so. The colonists were notonly unable to support theirpreacher and governor and hisfamily, but actually tried in vainto raise
Great Americans and their noble deeds; containing the lives of almost fifty of our nation's heroes and heroines .. . ovisit an old friend, and had themfined and imprisoned. At length it became neces-sary for Rhode Island to have anew charter in order to settlethe difiiculties that were con-stantly coming up between thetowns on the mainland and thoseon the island. Williams wasbegged to go again to England,and finally consented, though hehad to sell hi^ trading-house todo so. The colonists were notonly unable to support theirpreacher and governor and hisfamily, but actually tried in vainto raise money enough to pay hisexpenses when he went acrossA DELAWARE INDIAN. the occau ou their own affairs. When he reached England the government was in such great dis-rder that he could do scarcely anything for his colony for some time,ut he did not wait in idleness. Being an excellent scholar, he easily)und pupils, and by teaching languages to several young men, he earnedloney enough to pay the cost of his trip. Besides these duties, he wroteamphlets, and spent a good deal of time in trying to relieve the suffer-. ROGER WII^IvIAMS. 251 ings of the poor miners, wlio were tlien out of work because of tTie tumultof the times. Although Williams staid in England three years, he finally had toleave before the matter of the charter was settled, for trouble had brokenout in Rhode Island that made it necessary for him to return at , leaving his business in the hands of Mr. Clark—who had gone withhim from Providence—he went back as soon as he could to make last he was rewarded. In August, 1654, after ten years of quarreling,the towns all united in a union and chose Mr. Williams for theirpresident. When, ten years after Williams left him, Mr. Clark came back withthe charter, it was received with great joy and was at once put into opera-tion. The first governor was a man named Benedict Arnold. RogerWilliams—beside being chief pastor to the whole colony—was one of his
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