providence my chart Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/providence-my-chart Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:24:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Providence http://travelsfinders.com/providence.html http://travelsfinders.com/providence.html#respond Tue, 10 May 2016 11:51:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=203879 Providence, Rhode Island, was founded in 1636 by the banished minister Roger Williams and a group of refugees from the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony. In the first half of the 1630s, Williams had been at the center of controversies in Boston, Plymouth, and Salem, where he broke with the Church of England. The Massachusetts legislature still associated with the Anglican Church tried to have him shipped off to England. Williams fled to Narragansett Bay, where, with the permission of the Narragansett sachems who controlled the land, he and a small band of followers founded Providence. Through the 1640s, the population

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