Prepare for Surgery. Welcome to the Austin Pediatric Surgery (APS) website. The doctors of APS are surgical specialists for infants, children, and adolescents.
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.
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admitted to Boston church as member #18, which would be in the fall of 1630 [ BChR 13]; Robert Hayle and Joan his wife dismissed to church at Charlestown, 14 October 1632 [BChR 16]; Robert [and] Jone Hale were among the founding members of Charlestown church, 2 November 1632 [ ChChR 7].