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| | William Coddington |
 | | CODDINGTON, William, founder of the colony of Rhode Island, born in Lincolnshire, England, in 1601; died 1 November, 1678. |
 | | Hutchinson was tried, Coddington undertook her defense against Winthrop and his party, and also unsuccessfully opposed the banishment of Wheelwright and other Antinomians. |
 | | A memoir by Dr. William Alien, with six select sermons, was published after his death (1853).--His son, John, born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, 16 October, 1814, left Amherst in his junior year, 1833, and finished his education on the sea, becoming a captain in the merchant marine. |
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