Biography Of Roger Williams

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Roger Williams was born December of 1603 in London. As a young boy Roger would be in the parish even though he knew people were being murdered right outside. The person he looked to for admiration was Sir Edward Coke. He attended Pembroke College at Cambridge University. Around the 1630’s he began to become a little more known for his ideas on freedom of worship. He eventually left England and travelled to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He left for America to find freedom of belief, but the church of New England was similar to old England. One of his breakout deals was when he wrote Key into the Languages of America in 1643. One of the things Williams claimed was that the Church was insufficiently committed to the proper worship of God. His

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