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!RESIDENCES: Came to Salem, Mass., in 1635 and removed to Providence, R.I., in 1638.
!SOURCE: Dean Crawford Smith, The Ancestry of Emily Jane Angell, 1844-1910 (Boston: NEHGS, 1992), p. 437.
!SOURCE: "Olney Family," in History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (New York: American Historical Society, 1920), p. 408-409. Extracted by Beth Hurd, 25 Sep 2002.
!RESIDENCES: " He settled first in Salem, Mass., where he was admitted a freeman, May 17, 1637, and in the same year received a grant of land. ... He early became associated with those who accepted the views of Roger Williams, and on March 12, 1638, was banished from the colony [Salem] with a number of others of the latter's followers. He accompanied Mr. Williams to the new settlement, and on October 8, 1638, was one of the twelve men to whom Roger Williams deeded equal shares with himself in the Providence lands. He became one of the 'Original Thirteen Proprietors of Providence.'" --Olney Family
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