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Excerpt from Foot-Prints of Roger Williams: A Biography, With Sketches of Important Events in Early New England History, With Which He Was Connected J. D. Knowles was published in 1834. It contains all the material which was to be found at that time, and is a repository of knowl edge to which all future writers on the subject must be greatly indebted. In 1846 Prof. Fill iam Gammel sent forth a Life of Roger fill iams, and in 1853 Dr. Romeo Elton followed with another, both of which are interesting por traitures of his character. But none of these are professedly written for young people, for whom especially this volume is prepared. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.