Note 4 — Chapter IV · • The Contributions of Independency

The testimony of Roger Williams seems to imply as much: “Mr. Haynes, Governor of Connecticut, though he pronounced sentence of my long banishment against me, at Cambridge, then Newtown, yet said to me ... ‘I think, Mr. Williams, I must now confess to you, that the most wise God hath provided and cut out this part of His world for a refuge and receptacle for all sorts of consciences. I am now under a cloud, and my brother Hooker, with the Bay, as you have been, we have removed from them thus far, and yet they are not satisfied.’” (Letter to Major Mason [1670], in Narragansett Club Publications, Vol. VI, p. 133 ff.)