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HISTORICAL SKETCH 



PROGRESS 



ROGER WILLIAMS 




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APPEAL .TO THE PUBLIC 

IN BEHALF THEREOF. 



PROVIDENCE: 

A. CRAWFOKD GREENE, STEAM BOOK AND JOB PRINTEE, 

Railroad Halls, Exchange Place. 

1867. 






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HISTORICAL sketch: 

OF THE PROGRESS OF THE 

ROGER WILLIAMS MONUMENT ASSOCIATION 

WITH AN 

APPEAL TO THE PUBLIC 

IN BEHALF THEREOF. 



More than seven years have now passed away, since the 
RoGEK Williams Monument Association was incorpora- 
ted by the Legislature of Rhode IsUxnd, for the special 
purpose of erecting a durable monument to commemorate 
the name of Roger Williams, the founder of the State of 
Rhode Island upon the constitutional basis of both civil 
and religious liberty. 

This beneficent achievement has been hailed throughout 
the world, as one of the most memorable events recorded 
in the annals of human government. 

The descendants of Roger Williams, and the people of 
the State founded by him, unmindful of the services of 
theu' great benefactor, have neglected even to raise a com- 
mon grave-stone to denote the spot where he was buiied. 
His acts have brought honor and fame to the State of 
Rhode Island ; while the people of this State have dishon- 
ored themselves by recklessly neglecting his ashes. 'I'heir 
character suffers by this negligence, not the name nor the 
fame of Roger Williams, which cannot be exalted by what 
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we may do. While the place of his mortal remains has 
been left forsaken, and almost forgotten, his name, charac- 
ter, and principles, have shone forth as a light to the world. 
"He has lived in death, spreading our name abroad in 
despite of our morbid life." 

To remind the members of the Roger Williams Monu- 
ment Association of their pledges, made seven years ago, 
by signing their names to a petition for an act of incorpo- 
ration for the/ixirpose declared and virtually promised 
therein, t^ie^Uowiug brief abstracts from the records of 
theii" proceedings are now presented. 

It has hitherto been an apology for having done so lit- 
tle, that immediately after the organization of the Asso- 
ciation, proceedings were arrested by the all-absorbing 
anxieties and exertions necossary for saving the ci'sil lib- 
erty of the people of the United States from destruction 
by the war of the great Rebellion. 

Happily thatisitter struggle is over ; and the time has 
noAv arrived-^r resuming, witii grateful hearts, renewed 
efforts for redeeming the pledges made before the world by 
the following named subscribers to the petition for an act 
of incorporation, '•'■for the puiyose of erecting a Monument 
in the City of Providence to the memory of Roger Williams, 
the founder of the State.** 

NAMES OF Tin: I'^TITIONICRS. 

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Francis Wirj-land, Eli.slia^Dyer, .John Carter Rrown, 
William Spraguc, Stephen A. Douglas, John R. Bartlett, 
Thomas M. Clark, Christophei" Rhodes, Thomas G. Tur- 
ner, Samuel O. Arnold, AVilliam R. Staples, Klisha Harris, 
George A. Brayton, Scth Paddford, Stephen Randnll, 
Zachariah Allen, Albert G. Greene, Amos D. Smitli, Wjl- 
liani Gaminell, Henry T. Hcrkwith, Roger W. Potter, 



Willmm G. Williams, Daniel S. Jones, Samuel L. Caldwell, 
George Baker, Frederic Denison, Barnas Sears, James Y. 
Smith, William M. Rodman, Jabez C. Knight, Thomas P. 
Ives, Arthur M. Potter, George D. Williams, Samuel Ctir- 
rey, Amos Perry, Joseph Banvard, Thomas G. ^Villiams, 
Amasa Manton, Robert H. Ives, Charles Akerman, Wil- 
liam Viall. Rowland G. Hazard, Wilkins Updike, Elisha 
R. Potter, Charles H Denison, Edward Harris, Rufus 
Waterman, William S. Patten, Amos C. Barstow, Henry 
B. Anthon}', Sullivan Dorr, James F. Simmons, Samuel 
Ames, Christopher S. Rhodes, Henry Lippitt, Joseph W. 
Sweet, Amasa S. Westcott, R. B. Cranston, James Atkin- 
son, Peleg' Clarke, Felix Peckham, Robert R. Carr, 
Thomas Dyre, Thomas C. Easton, Timothy Coggeshall, 
Charles H. Russell, Henry Jackson, Henry Y. Cranston, 
VN'illiam H. Cranston, Benjamin B. Ilowland, Edward W. 
Lawton, N. W. Gould, Henry Bull, George Freeborn, 
John Clarke, David Sherman, William S. Coddingtou, 
Edward Wilbur, Benjamin Mumford, W. A Clarke. 



Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Roger 
Williams Monument Association. 

On the 2Gth of April, 1860, a meeting of nearly two 
hundred persons of both sexes was held in Westminster 
Hall, in the City of Providence, assembled by the invita- 
tion of Mr. Stephen Randall, one of the lineal descendants 
of Roger Williams ; who had previously made researches 
to discover and identify the place of sepulture of his dis- 
tinguished ancestor. After Mr. Randall had succeeded in 
gathering up the remains from a nameless grave, and had 
temjiorarily preserved them for being duly honored by 



some suitable memorial, the whole subject was submitted 
by him, for final disposition, to the numerous descendants 
of Roger Williams, and to the people of Rhode Island 
fjenerall}^ ; they having all equally enjoyed the blessings of 
the civil and religious freedom mainly obtained by his 
bold exertions and patient sufferings. 

The meeting was organized by the election of Hon. 
James Y. Smith as chairman, and Mr. Amos Perry as 
Secretary. 

After eloquent addresses b}' several distinguished citi- 
zens, the folloAving resohitions were unanimously adopted : 

" Whereas, Mr. Stephen Randall, moved ])y filial regard 
for his distinguished ancestor, has, at no small expense of 
time and means, very carefull}'^ removed from their origi- 
nal, Init neglected, resting place, to his own tomb, the 
remains of Roger AVilliams, and now has them awaiting a 
final resting place ; and has also caused to be made an 
accurate map of the location of the original grave, in con- 
nection with the relative site of the house and of " the 
spring" of Roger Williams; and has now c.dled the pres- 
ent meeting of the descendants of Roger Williams and 
others, interested in perpetuating the memory of his useful 
life : — It is therefore, 

" Resolved, That we express to IVIr. Randnll our cordial 
approl)ation for his services, and especially for calling on 
us to advise and aid in erecting a monument, that may 
properly i)reserve the name and the remains of the illustri- 
ous Founder of the State of Rhode Island and of Religious 
Freedom. 

"■Resolved, That we invite all who feel an interest in 
this work to unite with us in carrying out a general plan 
lor ereeting a monument, that shall be a wortiiy nu'nu)rial 
of Roger Williams, the apostle of " soul-lilierty ;" whose 
memory, like a i)riceless legacy, should be fondly cherished 
hy all lovers of freedom throughout the world " 

To carry into eftVct these resolutions, a committee of 



fifteen gentlemen was fippoiuted to ro'^ort a plan of pro- 
ceedings to a subsequent meeting, adjourned to May lOth, 
18G0 ; when a petition for an act of incorporation was 
signed and presented, under the name of ' ' The Roger 
Williams Monument Association." The proposed act of 
incorporation was speedily passed by the legislature, and 
duly accepted at a meeting hold en on the fifth day of 
June, 1860, 

The officers elected were : 

President, — Francis Wayland. 

Vice-Presidents, — Elisha Dyer, David King, Elisha R. 
Potter, William Sprague, Jabez C. Knight. 

Corresponding Secretary, — John R. Bartlett. 

Recording Secretary, — Amos Perrj'. 

Treasurer, — James Y. Smith. 

Trustees, — Zachariah Allen, John Carter Brown, Amos 
C. Barstow, Seth Padelford, George Baker, Alexander 
Duncan, Rowland G. Hazard, Amos D. Smith, Thomas G. 
Turner, Stephen Randall, Samuel L. Caldwell, William S. 
Slater, Thomas Durfee, William Gammell. 

The records of the meeting state : 

'*At the request of the Chairman, (Hon. James Y. 
Smith,) the Governor of the State, and the Mayor of the 
City, conducted the President elect to the chair." 

With this most respectable support, the Roger Williams 
Monument Association was auspiciously inaugurated. 

By the terms of the Charter, the performance of the 
duties of the associstion is placed under the charge of a 
Board of Trustees ; who necessarily appointed executive 
committees, for more prompt and immediate action in pre- 
paring estimates and reports. 

The first business presented for the consideration of the 



BparrI of Trustees, was the selection of a suitable site, and 
of the proper form of the proposed monument, together 
with the costs. For this pui'pose, a special committee was 
uppohited, with instructions to report " on the site, char- 
acter and cost of a suitable monument." 

This special committee (Zachariah Allen, James Y. 
Smith and Seth Padelford) reported to the Board of Trus- 
tees on the !)th of Jul}-, 1860, substantially as follows : 

The committee stated in their report, that during a pre- 
liminary discussion of the topics referred to them, which 
took place at the time of their appointment, the expres- 
sions of tlie opinions of the several gentlemen constituting 
the Board of Trustees combined to indicate their prefer- 
ence for the general design of a shaft in the form of an 
Eg^qitian obelisk, or of a Grecian column. Consequently 
the attention of this committee was more particularly di- 
rected to the examination of conspicuous sites for monu- 
mental shafts. The plan of a simple statue of bronze or 
marble on a low pedestal, artistically sculptured, was not 
preferred, from the fact that no likeness either in sculp- 
ture or painting exists, to personify' the form and features 
of Roger Williams ; and it would necessarih* have involved 
the embodiment of an ideal fiction to represent truthful 
history, and the memory of a great event, as well as of a 
great and good miui. 

It appears that the committee selected the form of a 
Grecian column, in preference to that of a tapering and 
pointed ol)elisk, in order that space might be provided 
within the base for statuaiy and other sculptures, as well 
as historical inscriptions ; and that a colossal statue, if dc- 
siralile, might be suhlinicly exalted on the sunnnit, in bold 
outlines aloft in the sky. 

'llic most conspicuous spot in the City of Providence 



was found to be the summit of Prospect Hill ; and, most 
fortunately for the proposed object, the apex of this hill 
was the identical lot that constituted the homestead and 
the burial place selected by Roger NVilliams himself, on 
his arrival in this " wilderness." 

As evidence of the conspicuousness of the summit of 
Prospect Hill, which is two hundred feet above tide water, 
the committee refer to tlie historical fact that during the 
rcA'f'lutionary war, a beacon fire was kindled thereon at 
the top of a mast, wliich was seen by the inhabitants of 
Cambridge, Massachusetts, and of New London, Conn. 
This circumstance rendered the supposition reasonable, 
that the top of a monumental shaft, nearly two hundred 
feet high, might be visible from the top of the Bunker Hill 
Monument, (near ('ambridge,) which is two hundred and 
twenty feet high. In this case, the worthy descendants of 
the Puritans might there behold the Roger AVilliams Mon- 
ument rising as an emblem of the trmmph of Religious 
Freedom, here first established on earth by the man ban- 
ished into a wilderness by their forefathers ; while the 
people of Rhode Island, in return, might hence reciprocal- 
ly regard the Bunker Hill McHument as a sister emblem 
of the triumph of Civil Liberty, erected on the spot where 
it originated. 

It appears that the committee also recommended the 
form of a column in preference to tliat of a tapering obe- 
lisk, 'o avoid the appearance of the chimney of some man- 
ufactory, the summit of a column l)eing crowned with a 
capital, like a diadem, on its head, to distinguish it unmis- 
takably from all plebeian rivals. 

Sheltered from the weather in the base of the column, 
figures representing some of the most interesting scenes in 
the life of Roger Williams, and also of William Hiuris, 



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John Clarke and other first-settlers of Providence, might 
hereafter 1)C securely arranged and preserved. 

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" A panel of the base of the colarau might be specially 
reserved for commemorating the hospitable friendship of 
C'anonicus and of Miantononioh to Roger Williams, when 
banished in mid-winter from Boston ; showing the con- 
trast between the kindnesses of Christian savages, and the 
cruel i)erseeutions of savage Christians." 

It thus appears that the committee selected a monu- 
mental column, not to the exclusion of choice works of art 
in marble and bronze, but rather for the subsidiary pur- 
pose of exhibiting and preserving them to the best advan- 
tage. 

And for perpetuating the preservation of the column i 
with its contents, the committee suggested that an income 
might be derived from visitants ; who would be attracted 
to ascend to this lofty pinnacle, to enjo3' the prospect of 
looking down upon the city spread out humbly below ; — : 
upon the broad and beautiful landscape of the surrounding 
country ; on the shores of the lovely Narragansett Bay, 
and on the blue ocean bounding the distant horizon. All 
these objects might be brought within the range of distinct 
vision, by a telescope mounted on the broad summit of the 
capital. 

To confirm the supposition of an avaihible income from 
visitants, it may now be added, that more than five thou- 
sand dollars were received in the year liSC.G, fi-om visitants 
who ascended to the to]) of the Bunker Hill .Monument 
Although this incidental advantage is not a primary ol)- 
jeet, as in constructing an observatory, yet certainly it is 
a seccmdary object of great importance for peri)etuating 
the preservation of the proposed monumental column. 

These combined considerations appear to have i)revailed 



in producing the recomraendaiion bj' the committee of the 
selection of a site on the top of Prospect Hill, for the pro- 
posed monument, and the cJiaracterisUo form of the shaft 
of a column. 

" In regard to the material for a monument," they say, 
" it may be superfluous to state, that there is abundance 
of granite within a few miles of the city of Providence ; 
and it should not be omitted here to suggest, that there 
are extensive quarries of stratified gneiss, of an excellent 
quality, accessible by the construction of two or three 
miles of railway track to connect with the Hartford Rail- 
road. A sample of this building material va^y be seen in 
the walls of the house on Pawtuxet street, occupied as a 
Catholic convent. In appearance, this stone so closely re- 
sembles granite, that the regular courses of masonry might 
be mistaken by many for granite. The quarries of gneiss 
being of perfectly plane stratification, the blocks of square, 
flat stones are extracted like blocks of ice from an ice- 
house, requiring Init little labor to fit them for laying The 
construction of the Bunker Hill Monument was the imme- 
diate cause of the opening of the quarries of Quincy gran- 
ite near Boston ; which now constitutes an important 
export to distant States ; and, should the construction of 
the proposed Monument to Roger "Williams be productive 
of the like result of working the gneiss quarries of Scitu- 
ate, this excellent building material would render the city 
of I'rovidence the most beautiful, as well as substantial 
city of New England ; beside supplying an inexhaustible 
quantity for profitaljle exportation from the State." 

It thus appeared that there was no lack of suital)le 
building materials. 

In regard to the cost of a shaft of granite one hundred 
and fifty feet high, made of rough ashler dressed at the 
joints, estimates were presented by practical masons, 
making the cost about sixty thousand dollars. 

At the same meeting of the Board of Trustees, July D, 



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1860, Rev. Samuel L. Caldwell reported the draft of an ap- 
peal to (he people of Rhode Island ; wherein he stated : — 
" Whatever commemoration is attempted, it should liavc; a 
loftiness, impressiveness, and solid greatness, not unwortliy of 
the great event thereby to be commemorated to future ages.'' 

" Tliis report, and the one read by IMr. Allen on the site* 
character, and cost of the proposed monunieiit, are recei^ ed 
and adojited by the Board of Trustees," as certified by the 
Secretary. 

In (heir appeal to the people, the Board of Managers state, 
that they "have proposed the erection of a shaft of suitable 
height, with such accompaniments of inscriptions, statues, and 
sculptured illustrations, as may seem fit and feasible, on sor.ie 
commanding eminence in the city of Providence : — if possible, 
on the ground where was once the homestead and burial place 
of Williams. They will proceed in the work with the expec- 
tation that it will cost not much less than seventy-five thou- 
sand dollars." 

The Board of Managers then caused to be iiublished in 
July, IHCiO, advertisements for plans for a monument, no le-s 
than one hundred and fifty feet high, for the remuneration of 
two hundred and fifty dollars, if approved. 

On the presentation of several plans, the}'^ were not ap- 
proved ; and all further action appears to have been suspended 
by the always insujjerable difficulty of agreement in matters 
of taste ; thus literally verifying the ancient Latin ajjliorism, 
"de gu-tibus non disputandum est;" — tastes are not to be dit- 
puted ohoii'. They end in nothing ; and so did the labors of 
the Managers of the Roger Williams Monument Association, 
as the records show. 

At the amiual meetings in 1<SG1 and lf^(>2, no progress ap- 
pears to have been made ; and an adjournment to the year 
18G;J was j»n)j)Osed, '' in consequence of the distracted state of 



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the limes, and the absence from the State of many of the 
members." 

Similar fruitless annual meetings and adjournments are 
recoided up to the year 18 GG. 

Ill the mean time expenses had been incurred for plans 
and designs, amounting to sevei'al hundred dollars ; which 
coni:r tituted an outstanding debt due from the Roger Wil- 
liams Monument Association. In consequence of this 
debt, a vote was passed at a meeting holden June 4th, 
1861, — " That in the opinion of this meeting, it is indis- 
pens ible to make provision for the immediate payment of 
all dobts now due from this Association ; and that to this 
end it is desirable to collect from as many persons as pos- 
sible the fee of three dollars, requu-ed as a condition of 
mem^ lership." 

An insufficient sum to discharge the debts incurred be- 
ing obtained under this vote, the Association remained 
without funds and insolvent, instead of raising anj^ funds 
to erect the proposed monument ; and this debt was al- 
lowed to remain unpaid to the Treasurer, James Y. Smith, 
until near the expiration of six years. 

Tl'.ese discouraging facts, combined with numerous 
others of a similar character, cannot fail to produce an 
impressive conviction, that mankind are not prone to build 
monuments for others, however splendidly they may build 
them for themselves. So little attention was paid to mark 
the spots where were buried the two most distinguished 
men llhode Island has ever produced, — Roger Williams 
and General Na':hanael Greene, that the final resting place 
of the former has onlj^ recently been sought for and iden- 
tified ; and where the gTave of General Greene is, none of 
his descendants know. One of the prevalent religious 
sects iu this State, the Friends, until quite recently, have 



been conscientiously scrupulous about setting up a grave 
stone to perpetuate the memory of a departed friend, deem- 
ing every such memorial of human affection and reverence 
to be a monument of human pride. The people of the 
United States have neglected to raise a monument over 
the sacred ashes of Washington, their hero, statesman, 
and deliverer ; and have left this pious dutj^ to be per- 
formed by lottery- dealers in Baltimore, and b}' speculative 
men in Washington, with meagre funds from casual con- 
tributors. 

On the contrary, a proneness to desecrating the monu- 
ments of the dead appears to be a predominate propensity. 
The ver}^ pj^ramids of Egj-pt have been ransacked by ex- 
cavations, and their massiveness alone has hitherto saved 
them. The tomb of Caesar, in Rome, has been used for a 
circus, and the tombs of the Kings of France were rifled 
during the revolution, and all the bodies thrown into a 
ditch. The monument of Jefferson, in Virginia, has been 
'nearly destroj'cd by visitants, who have carried away the 
mutilated fragments ; and similar desecrations elsewhere 
abound. Civilized men have even invaded the Indian 
mounds and heaps of stones or cairns, raised b)' barbarous 
nations to honor their dead. Quite recently the tribe of 
Narragansett Indians, within the borders of our State, have 
made complaints of the rol)bery of the giave of their 
great chief, Ninigret, of valuable deposits, including 
ornaments of precious niotals, buried therein with super- 
stilioiis piety for tiie futiue welfare of the departed in the 
spirit land. 

To (.•oiuiteract this neglec't, it was a sagacious foresight 
of the proprietors of lots in the North Burial Ground, imd 
of the Swan l*oint Corporation, in this city, to obtain an 
act of the legislature for the City Council to hokl endow- 



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ments of funds as trustees for perpetuating the preserva-' 
tion of those cemeteries-. 

Despairing of an^^ action by the Roger Williams Monu- 
ment Association, one of his lineal descendants, Mr Ste- 
phen Randall, has persevered under all difficulties to carry 
out the original plan of the tnistees for erecting a monu- 
mental structure, as near the spot designated by them, and 
as similar in design, as appears to be now practicable. 
Considering the Association to have failed in accomplishing 
this object, as a similar spasmodic effort of a committee 
of the town of Providence failed in 1790, Mr. Randall de- 
posited one thousand dollars in a city Savings Bank, iu 
trust, as the commencement of a fund to be hereafter ac- 
cumulated by interest and by other contributions, which, 
in process of time, will surel}^ accomplish the proposed 
object. 

At a recent meeting of the Trustees of the Roger Williams 
Monument Asssciation, this proposed plan was considered 
to be the only feasible mode of proceeding with hope of 
success. The members present at this meeting, and at a 
subsequent adjourned meeting, adopted the following res- 
olution, and promptly subscribed funds to pay off the old 
outstanding debt of the Association ; so that an onward 
impulse might be finally given to the project, without that 
embarrasing contingent debt. 

(Extract from the Recoi'Js of the Association, April, 16, 1867.) 

' '^' At the Annual Meeting held this daj^, Mr. Joseph Rog- 
ers presented the following Preamble and Resolutions ; 
which were adopted : 

" Whereas^ a descendant of Roger Williams, in a spirit 
of pat)-iotic liberality, has deposited the sum of one thous- 
and dollars in the People's ^avings Bank, in Providence, 
in trust, to form a fund for the erection of a raonument to 
Roger Williams ; and 



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'" WhereaSy it is desirable that such monument shall be 
erected at an early day : now, therefore, to promote that 
end, and to give to the citizens of Rhode Island an oppor- 
tunity to manifest by their acts their A'eneration for the 
memory of the distinguished founder of our State : 

"/< is Resolved^ That the Board of Managers, with such 
others as they may appoint, be, and they are herel)y ap- 
pointed a committee to solicit and collect su1)scriptions 
toward the erection of such monument, each subscriber 
being bound during life to pay annually, in the month of 
October, the sum su.bscri!)ed b}' him or her, with the re- 
served right of discontinuing said subscriptions l)y giving- 
written notice of such intention before the fust day of 
August, in any year, to the Treasurer of the Corporation ; 
but to be bound to pay the subscription for that year, if 
such notice is not given until after that date ; the said 
subscriptions, excepting the moderate amount for needful 
expenses, shall from time to time, (not less than once in 
each 3^ear), be deposited in the name of the Association 
in some safe Saving's Institution, or let on mortgage se- 
curity, or invested in government securities, as the Trus- 
tees may decide, until the same, with the accumulations 
thereof by other deposits, gifts and l)equests fc^r that 
purpose, shall amount to a sum sufficient to procure a 
suital»le lot and to erect the said monument, on l'ros})ect 
Ilill, in the city of Providence, between Angell and Ilal- 
sey streets, and within three hundred feet of Prospect 
street ; the outside wall to be of granite, and not less than 
one hundred and seventy feet high, l)esides an ornamental 
top of any suitable material." 

At a meeting of the Board of Managers, hel/1 on :Mon- 
day, July 22d, 1807, it was 

Resolved, That in conformity witli tht; duty assigned to 
tlie Board by the preceding, vote of the C"ori)oration, they 
respectfully solicit subscriptions towards the erection of 
tiie monument ; and the debts of the Association having 
been paid liy recent subscriptions, they earnestly appeal 
to those members, who may not have''contr.buted to the 



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discharge thereof, to now come forward and contribute- 
their just proportion of the debt. 

A number of subscriptions have been received, and sev- 
eral sums pledged. The amount already received has 
been deposited on interest. 

The Board of Managers deem it just to the Mechanic's 
Association, of this city, to say, that the sui)ject of the 
erection of a monument to Roger Williams was a rcsatter 
©f deep interest to them as early as the year 1850. A 
course of ten lectures was given to the public by as many 
distinguished gentlemen, gratuitouslj^ at the solicitation 
of the Association ; and a large committee from their num- 
ber were also appointed to solicit subscriptions for this 
purpose in the several wards. The sum received from 
this eflfbrt was deposited in the Providence Institution of 
Savings, in 1851, and now, together with the interest ac- 
cumulated thereon, amounts to ^250 ; which, in accordance 
with a vote passed by the Association, will be available 
whenever such progress has been made in the erection of 
a monument, as in the judgmeiit of the Trustees of the 
Association will secure its completion. 



Providence, ^uly 25th, 1867. 
To the Board of Manaffers of 

The Ro(/rr Williams Monument Association : 
Gentlemen : — I have the pleasure to report tliat the deuiands 
against the Association have been paid from recent su))scriptions.. 
Subscriptions are not required to be paid until October. The 
amount paid in advance (excepting the small suni applied to the 
payment of debts) lias been deposited in Savings Bank. 

Very truly, James Y. Smith, 

Treasurer. 



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GFnCERS OF THE ASSOCIATIOr-J, 

Elected for the year 1867. 



I'KKSIDIA'T : 

SKTII I'ADHLFOrJ). 

VICE-I'KESrDKXTS : 

DAVri) KFXG, 

ELISHA R. PUTTER, 

THOMAS G. TURNER, 

His Excellency A:\IBR0.SE E. BURNSTDE, 

His Honor THOMAS A. DOYLK. 

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY' : 

JOHN R. BARTLETT. 

RECORDING SElRETAKV ; 

FREDERICK MILLER. 

TREASURER : 

JAMKS Y. SMITH. 



ZACHARIAH ALLEX, 
AM()S C. BAI?ST(»\V, 
GEORGE BAKER, 
ROWLAND G. ILVZARD, 
SAMUEI, A. PACKER. 
SAMUEL L. CALDWELL. 
JOSEPH R()(;ERS, 

WM. (i. wrLiJA.\rs. 



PRfSTEES : 

JOHN CARTER HROWN, 
AfJvXrS CASWELL, 
A I ,EX ANDER I) U NC AN, 
AMOS D. SMITH, 
STEPHEN RANDALL, 
WM. S. SLATEIL 
HEN1{Y T. BECKWITM, 
FREDEKICK DEX1S(»V. 



A^IOS PERRY. 



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