Island and established a colony at Providence to which he gave the name.
   To be sure, there were some Quakers among them they did not like, but none did they ever punish by death, nor did they ever hang a witch, unlike the Puritans in the Massachusetts Colony, who seemed to delight in hanging and torturing these poor, innocent and harmless victims of a superstitious and bigoted Colony, convicted on the evidence largely of hysterical and nervous children.
   These persecuted people left England, as did our Pilgrim Fathers, for New England to have larger liberty in the enjoyment of their religious and honest convictions, and so did the Puritans, but they would not tolerate or allow anybody else that same privilege who did not agree with them.