February 11 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Join the Portsmouth Historical Society at the Common Fence Point Community Center for a book talk on Roger Williams. Professor Charlotte Carrington-Farmer will discuss her book Roger Williams and His World : A History in Documents.
Roger Williams, a 17th-century English immigrant to New England, was famously banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635 for his “new and dangerous opinions” on religious freedom, the separation of church and state, and Indigenous land rights. Following his banishment, Williams settled the town of Providence with the permission of the Narragansett Sachems, creating a colony that was arguably the freest in the western world. Professor Carrington-Farmer’s book brings together a wide range of primary sources by and about Williams in order to make this history accessible to a broad audience.