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The Rhode Island Colony was founded by those who wanted to escape the lack of religious tolerance found in the other New England colonies. Its founder Roger Williams was a former colonist and religious exile from the Massachusetts Colony, where religious tolerance did not exist among the Puritans. The Rhode Island Colony was home to the first Jewish synagogue and the first Baptist church in the New World.
Plymouth Colony, founded in 1620 in what is now Massachusetts, was an early English colony in New England. It was founded by Pilgrims, who were members of a Puritan religious group known as the Separatists.lymouth Colony later merged with the Massachusetts Bay Colony to form the colony of Massachusetts. 1677 map of New England by William Hubbard showing the location of Plymouth Colony.