biography
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| lived:
| (1648–1721)
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| biography:
| Religious reformer, born in Milford, Connecticut, USA. His parents were wealthy Connecticut merchants. He converted to the Seventh-Day Baptist faith (1674), but then developed his own small sect, known as the Rogerenes, and wrote The Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ (1720). Persecuted intensely for his persuasions, he was imprisoned seven times, for a total of 15 years. He married three times (1670, 1690, 1714), the second time to a maidservant without any legal ceremony; she later sued him and was herself imprisoned for bearing a child out of wedlock. He died of smallpox in Boston. Less well known than Roger Williams, he was a pioneer of religious freedom. |
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