Let's go old-school Williams. As a Puritan minister, theologian, and author, there was little that the 17th-century figure Roger Williams didn't do, including founding a state. Name the colony that was created out of the plantations he established.

Roger Williams founded the Providence Plantations, the first settlement in what later became the colony and state of Rhode Island. Williams joined with Dr. John Clarke to leave Massachusetts Bay Colony in order to establish a colony with greater religious freedom.

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