| Notes |
unmarked grave - originally buried in the orchard behind his homestead.
Many years later his remains were disinterred and placed in the tomb of a
descendant at the North Burial Ground in Providence [Stephen Randall's
tomb, placed there about 1860] In 1936 they were sealed in a bronze
container and set in the base of the monument erected to his memory at
Prospect Terrace.
Ezra Stiles in his diary for April 30, 1772: "Rode to Providence; visited
the Grave of the famous Mr. Roger Williams (once Pastor of Salem) --
there is no inscribed stone or Monument at the Grave. He was buried about
ten rods back from the Spring in the main street called Williams' Spring
to this day; nigh to which I saw the spot where the House stood. His
Grave is on the side of the hill in the lot adjoyning the 14 acre Lot
lately purchased by the Congregational Church for a parsonage: it is I
should judge 20 or 25 Rods [330-412 ft.] South East from the Church of
England |
