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Providence Plantations. Providence Plantation was a colonial plantation that was the first permanent European American settlement in present-day Rhode Island. It was established at Providence in 1636 by English clergyman Roger Williams and a small band of followers who had left the oppressive atmosphere of the Massachusetts Bay Colony to seek freedom of worship.
He named the colony Providence Plantation, believing that God had brought him and his followers there. Plantation was used in the 17th century as a synonym for settlement or colony.. Williams named the other islands in the Narragansett Bay after virtues: Patience Island, Prudence Island and Hope Island.