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Underneath the Roger Williams Statue, at Prospect Terrace, lie Williams’s ashes. With John Clarke, he was the co-founder of Rhode Island. (See Chapter 12).


copyrighted and used by permission from David Beale, Baptist History in England and America: Personalities, Positions, and Practices

 

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Address: Prospect Terrace, College Hill
Providence
Rhode Island
United States

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