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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.
1. Proprietary Government had failed. 2. Islands were being over-run by pirates. 3. New Providence was constantly under attack from Spain and France 4. They wanted to develop the islands in order to make them profitable.