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hristianity among the hundred millions of his people. No joy could be purer than that of the colonists, when the news was spread abroad, that George Baxter, Backus, almost always very accurate, here mistakes the name. the most faythful and happie bringer of the charter, had arrived. On the beautiful island, long Nov. 24. e historian, the statesman, the prime minister, who had shown to the colony exceeding great care and love; and to the modest and virtuous Clarke, On Clarke, see Backus, i. 440; Allen's Biog. Dict. The charge of baseness in Grahame, i. 315, is an unwarranted misapprehension. His enemies in Massachusetts disliked his principles liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free in life and glory. The leading printed authorities for early Rhode Island history, are Callender's Century Sermon, Backus's History of the Baptists, and Knowles's Roger Williams. The Mass. Hist. Coll. contain many useful documents, too various to be specially cited. Our Rhode Isla