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Route map of Roger Williams National Memorial in New England. The map is green with the present-day states outlined in gray. White text indicates historic tribal lands, yellow dots represent towns and cities, and red arrows represent routes taken by the settler Roger Williams.

Extended Description

Four routes on the map are represented by three shades of red. The darkest shade represents two routes taken in 1631. One of those starts in Boston and heads north to Salem, both in Massachusetts. The second of those 1631 routes started in Salem and travels south to Plymouth, Massachusetts. The medium shade of red is for the route taken in 1633, when Roger Williams left Plymouth and returned to Salem. The lightest shade is for the route taken in 1636 from Salem to Providence, Rhode Island. Modern-day towns labeled in Rhode Island include Warwick, Portsmouth, and Newport.

Massachusetts is labeled with white text reading Massachusetts in the northeast, Wampanoag in the southeast, and Nipmuck to the west. Mohegan territory spans the southern border of Massachusetts and northern Connecticut, and Pequot is on the southern coastline. Finally, modern-day Rhode Island belonged to the Narragansett.

Two lines of text at the bottom of the map read, “White labels indicate historic tribal lands” and “Gray lines and labels indicate present-day states.”