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About Samuel Gorton
Samuel Gorton (1593–1677) was an early settler and civic leader of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and President of the towns of Providence and Warwick. He had strong religious beliefs which differed from Puritan theology and was very outspoken, and he became the leader of a small sect known as Gortonians, Gortonists, or Gortonites. As a result, he was frequently in trouble with the civil and church authorities in the New England Colonies.
Everything about Samuel Gorton →- Occupation
- founder, theologian, colonial governor
- Position held
- President of colonial Rhode Island
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- 1593
- Died
- December 10, 1677, November 10, 1677