While ill, Roger Wiiliams fled, through deep snow (pictured here), from Salem to the head of Narragansett Bay (105 miles).

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English Protestant theologian Roger Williams (died 1683) founded the Colony of Providence Plantation after fleeing religious persecution by the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was tried, convicted and sentenced to banishment, but illness prevented his leaving. While ill, he fled, through deep snow (pictured here), from Salem to the head of Narragansett Bay (105 miles). There he was helped by his Wampanoag friends and chief Massasoit. He later left and founded Providence Plantation in Rhode Island.

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