was Roger Williams, who had been born into a middle-class family in London around 1603. Coke’s conflicts with King James and then King Charles ran deep and hot; in 1621, James sent Coke to the ...

A crack team of Brown University students decoded the writings of Rhode Island founder Roger Williams after developing a statistical tool that allowed them to translate the curious characters.

Roger Williams was not treated with the dignity befitting his legacy when he died in 1683, according to docent Richard Siembab. He was originally buried in an unmarked grave on his own land ...