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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.
Ironically, three years after her arrival Anne Hutchinson was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony at the court in Newtown and the next year, in 1638 excommunicated from the Boston church.hey soon relocated to what is today the Boston area and settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The colonists were united by the persecution they had faced in England and in the words of their leader, Governor John Winthrop, a sense of religious mission to build a city on a hill.