By 1648, most New England leaders had it in for Samuel Gorton. In just a handful of years he had been kicked out of every town he moved to, infuriated even the famously tolerant Rhode Islanders, been attacked by government soldiers and even threatened with a death sentence in Massachusetts. So after four years in ...
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