I drew the materials in a rude lump at sea, as a private help to my own memory, that I might not by my present absence lightly lose what I had so dearly bought in some few years hardship...yet being reminded by some, what pity it were to bury those materials in my grave at land or sea.
-Roger Williams, 1643
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