Fifty years later, his house collapsed into the cellar and the location of his grave was forgotten. According to the National Park Service, in 1860, Providence residents determined to raise a monument in his honor "dug up the spot where they believed the remains to be, they found only nails, teeth, and bone fragments.
The Rhode Island Historical Society has cared for this tree root since 1860 as representative of Rhode Island's founder.
"Why Was Roger Williams Banished?" American Journal of Theology 5 (January 1901): 1–17. Byrd, James P., Jr.
much debated study; Miller argues that Williams thought was primarily religious, not political as so many of the historians of the 1930s and 1940s had argued. Morgan, Edmund S.
Since 2007, the root has been displayed at the John Brown House. The few remains discovered alongside the root were reinterred in Prospect Terrace Park in 1939 at the base of a large stone monument. ==Separation of church and state== Williams was a staunch advocate of separation of church and state.
much debated study; Miller argues that Williams thought was primarily religious, not political as so many of the historians of the 1930s and 1940s had argued. Morgan, Edmund S.
"Roger Williams and the Historians", Church History 1963 32(4): 432–451 in JSTOR Peace, Nancy E.
"Roger Williams: A Historiographical Essay", Rhode Island History 1976 35(4): 103–113, ===Primary sources=== Williams, Roger.
Bartlett (1882). The Correspondence of Roger Williams, 2 vols., Rhode Island Historical Society, 1988, edited by Glenn W.
LaFantasie, 1988 ===Fiction=== Settle, Mary Lee, I, Roger Williams: A Novel, W.
"A Man for all Eras: The Changing Historical Image of Roger Williams, 1630–1993", Fides Et Historia 1994 26(3): 6–23, historiography Morgan, Edmund S.
"Roger Williams: Pious Puritan and Strict Separationist", Journal of Church and State 1996 38(3): 529–546 in EBSCO Phillips, Stephen.
"Roger Williams and the Two Tables of the Law", Journal of Church and State 1996 38(3): 547–568 in EBSCO Skaggs, Donald.
(Judson Press, Valley Forge, 1999). Hall, Timothy L.
"Kingdom Expectations: The Native American in the Puritan Missiology of John Winthrop and Roger Williams", Fides et Historia 2000 32(1): 39–49 ===Historiography=== Carlino, Anthony O.
"Roger Williams and his Place in History: The Background and the Last Quarter Century", Rhode Island History 2000 58(2): 34–71, historiography Irwin, Raymond D.
Roger Williams: Prophet of Liberty (Oxford University Press, 2001). Gaustad, Edwin, S., Liberty of Conscience: Roger Williams in America.
Roger Williams (Oxford University Press, 2005).
Since 2007, the root has been displayed at the John Brown House. The few remains discovered alongside the root were reinterred in Prospect Terrace Park in 1939 at the base of a large stone monument. ==Separation of church and state== Williams was a staunch advocate of separation of church and state.
"A Key for the Gate: Roger Williams, Parliament, and Providence", New England Quarterly 2007 80(3): 353–382 Goodman, Nan.
"Banishment, Jurisdiction, and Identity in Seventeenth-Century New England: The Case of Roger Williams", Early American Studies, An Interdisciplinary Journal Spring 2009, Vol.
"'To Speak With Other Tongues': Linguistics, Colonialism and Identity in 17th Century New England", Comparative American Studies March 2009, Vol.
In 2012, Brown University undergraduate Lucas Mason-Brown cracked the code and uncovered conclusive historical evidence attributing its authorship to Williams.
The First American Founder: Roger Williams and Freedom of Conscience (Pittsburgh, PA: Philosophia Publications, 2015).
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