like Roger Williams, had been for a time connected with the Baptists.1 In a short time the number of Quakers must have considerably increased, for when the General Meeting was “set up” at Rhode Island, in the spring of 1661, the concourse was so numerous, that in Massachusetts grave apprehensions were aroused “that the Quakers were gathering together to kill the People, and to fire the town of Boston.”2 As early as 1665 the Quakers had been reinforced by men as prominent as Coddington and Easton,