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the r »? $ ves * ' however , unsafe at Cambridge , they removed to New Haven , where they were received with great respect by the clergy and magistrates . " After a short residence there , enjoythe
ing , in private , society of their friends , the governor of { Massachusetts received a mandate to arrest them . A warrant was immediately issued , authorizing two zealous royalists to search for , and seize then ] , wherever found , in New England . They hastened to the colony of New
Haven , exhibited the warrant to the governor , who resided at Guild ford , and requested him to . furnish authority and assistants to pursue them . Desirous of favouring the exiles , he affected to deliberate until the ne £ t morning , and then utterly declined acting officially , without the advice of his council .
" In the mean time , they were apprized of their danger , and retired-to a new place of concealment . The pursuers , on arriving at New Haven , searched every suspected house , except the one
where the judges were concealed . This they began to search , but were induced , by the address of the mistress of it , to desist . When tbe pursuers had departed , the judges , retiring into the woods , fixed their abode in a cave .
u Having there heard that their friends were threatened with punishment , for having afforded them protection , they came from their hiding place for the purpose of delivering themselves up : but
their friends , actuated by feelings equally noble and generous , persuaded them to relinquish their intention . Soon after , they removed to Milford , where they remained about two years .
" Upon the arrival of other persons , instructed to apprehend them , they repaired privately to Hadley , in Massachusetts , where they resided fifteen or sixteen years , but few persons being acquainted with the place of their concealment . There id , in that neighbourhood , a tradition , that many years afterwards two graves were discovered in the
minister ' s cellar : and in these , it was supposed , they had been interred . At , New-Haven , two graves ate shewn said to be those of the two judges . It is not improbable that their remains were removed to this place from Hadley .
" A singular incident which occurred ' at the latter place * in 1675 , shews that one of these illustrious exiles had pot forgotten the avocations of his youth . The people , at the time of public worship , were alarmed by an attack from the Indians , and thrown into the utmost confusion . Suddenly , a grave , elderly person appeared , differing in his wen
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and dress from all around him . fife put himself at their head , rallied , encouraged and led them against the enemy . Who were repulsed and completely defeated .
As suddenly , the deliverer of Hadley disappeared . The people were lost iu amazement , and many verily believed that an angel sent from heaven had led them to victory . "—Pp . 48—51 .
The short history of Rhode Island is in fact the history of Rog-er Williams , the patriarch of religious liberty jn the New World : U will be seen , without surprise , that even under such an apostolic teacher , this favoured State was not able to bear , except by degrees , €€ the perfect law of liberty . **
€ t Rhode Island . " Roger Williams , who was banished from Massachusetts , for avowing the doctrine , that the civil magistrate is bound to grant equal protection to every
denomiuation of Christians , a doctrine too liberal for the age in which he lived , re * paired to Seeconk , where he procured a grant of land from the Indians . Being informed by the governor of Plymouth , that the land was within the limits of
that colony , he proceeded to Mooshausic , where , In 1636 , with those friends who followed him , he began a plantation . " He purchased the land of the Indians , and , in grateful acknowledgment of the kindness of heaven , he called the
plaice Providence . Acting m conformity with the wise and liberal principle , for avowing and maintaining which her had suffered banishment , he allowed entire freedom of conscience to all who came within his borders . And to him must be
given the glory of having first set a practical example of the equal toleration of all religious sects ia the same political community . * His benevolence was not confined to his civilized brethren . He laboured to
enlighten , improve and conciliate the sa * vages . He learned their language , travelled among , them , and gained the entire confidence of their chiefs . He had often the happiness , by his influence over them , of saving from injury the colony that had proclaimed him an outlaw and driven him into the wilderness .
« in 1638 , William Coddington , and Seventeen others , being persecuted for their religious tenets in Massachusetts , followed Williams to Providence . By his advice , they purchased of the Indians the inland of Aquetnec , now called Rhode Island , and removed thither . Coddington was chosen their judge , or qhief magistrate . The fertility of the soil and the
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jfteview—History of the United States . 105
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vol . xxi . v
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1826, page 105, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2545/page/41/
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