Rhode Island Historical Society Museum
Apple Tree Root from the Grave of Roger Williams
Grave of Roger Williams
Roger Williams for many years had a trading-place, where he did business with the Indians. This store was near the present village of Wickford. His profits, he tells us, were five hundred dollars a year. The foundations of this old building are still intact, with a new superstructure over them. Late in life he made monthly preaching visits to this place. When too old to do this, he planned the publication of his sermons for the natives. Roger Williams was the original missionary to the North American Indians, antedating the illustrious Eliot by thirteen years. Williams’ Indian Bible is in the John Hay Library, Providence, R. I.
New Testament Title-page of Roger Williams’ Indian Bible
WUSKU
WUTTESTAMENTUM
NULLORDUMUN
JESUS CHRIST
Nuppoquohwussuaeneumun.
CAMBRIDGE:
Printed by Samuel Green and Marmaduke Johnson,
MDCLXI.