Providence Plantation was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams after he was forced to flee Massachusetts Bay over religious philosophy. Other communities would follow and eventually form the colony of Rhode Island. Arnold, Greene, Gorton, Holden, Remington, Wall, Pearce, Goddard, Waterman, Allen, Colllins, Rhodes and others would follow Williams and other religious dissenters to the colony.
With the death of Zachariah Rhodes' parents and his move to Baltimore about 1809, roughly 170 years of Rhode Island heritage came to an end.
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