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John Clarke and His Legacies: Religion and Law in Colonial Rhode Island, 1638-1750

John Clarke and His Legacies: Religion and Law in Colonial Rhode Island, 1638-1750

James, Sydney
Bozeman, T. Dwight

Paperback

Historical FiguresReligious BiographiesRegional: New England

ISBN10: 0271028157
ISBN13: 9780271028156
Publisher: Penn St Univ Pr
Published: Mar 22 1999
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

John Clarke and His Legacies is the first full-length biography of John Clarke (1609-76), a principal founder of colonial Rhode Island. Although Roger Williams usually gets most of the attention, Sydney James shows that Clarke made a lasting contribution to the colony--perhaps more so than Williams. Williams was the first Baptist minister in America, but he left his church after a very short time. And although Williams won the first charter for Rhode Island, the charter soon had to be replaced. Clarke, however, founded the first Baptist church in Newport, where he continued to contribute to the Baptist community. And in 1663 he procured the royal charter that would remain the foundation of government in Rhode Island until 1842.

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