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Why did the founders of Rhode Island and Connecticut leave the Massachusetts Bay Colony?

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Religious dissident Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony by the General Court of Massachusetts. Williams had spoken out against the right of civil authorities to punish religious dissension and to confiscate Native American land

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