Williams, Roger

Roger Williams lured them with private plane rides, generous consulting contracts and even cash, interviews and records show.

“Half of the stuff is gone because my wife took it, you know,” Roger Williams said during a bankruptcy-related hearing.

This flies against an American tradition of radical autonomy, one that dates, if not to Roger Williams, at least to Walt Whitman.

Only think of Roger Williams sharing in the proceeds of a slave sale.

It was to this iron-bound colony that Roger Williams brought his restless, vigorous and fearless spirit.

With this language Roger Williams had early made himself familiar.

I have told how kindly the natives received Roger Williams, and how justly he dealt by them.

Tradition says that when the enemy approached Providence, Roger Williams, now a very old man, went out to meet them.