Roger Williams


 * Founder of Rhode Island
 * Banished by Puritans
 * Accepted Anne Hutchinson into his colony
 * Founder of America's first Baptist Church
 * Wrote:
 * The Bloody Tenant of Persecution
 * ​Pleaded for a "wall of separation"
 * A Key into the Language of America
 * A study of the Algonquin Language
 * Popularized words like "squash"
 * United Colonies opposed him
 * Influenced parliament to annul William Coddington's patent on Aquidneck