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Bronze tablets marking site of Roger Williams House and Spring

Landing Place

The house at 237 North Main Street occupies a part of the

original home lot of Roger Williams

A tablet on this house indicates where Roger Williams house stood

Remains of wall and stonework which formed his hearth are found here

The landing of Roger Williams and his companions in June 1636 by the

Late Chief Justice Thomas Durfee

They entered the cove whose natural basin receiving the unpolluted

tides of the bay and the virgin waters of the Woonasquatucket and

the Moshassuck

Diffuse them widely into inlet and pool

Across sandy bar and over sedgy flats that are now traversed by busy

thoroughfares but then frequented only by flocks of feeding water

fowl or by the dusky fowler in his frail canoe

They continued their stately course until before them they beheld a

spring

Which gushing from the verdant turf and pouring its crystal trubute to the

cove invites them to disembark

There beaching their boat on the smooth white sand they step ashore

They slake their thirst at the spring and invoke the divine blessing and

Providence Plantations are begun

Providence RI

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