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k ix k acknoWleDgmenTs It has been a singular opportunity to collaborate on a project like this. Many people graciously gave of their time and shared information with us along the way, including Ted Widmer and Kimberly Nusco at the John Carter Brown Library; Steven Lubar, Hal Cook, Tim Harris, Jeff Hoffstein , and Eugene Charniak at Brown University; Frances Henderson at Oxford University; and Curtis Freeman at Duke Divinity School. Special thanks to the original undergraduate decoding team at Brown University who first kicked off this project: Simon Liebling, Katherine Mead, and Christopher Norris-LeBlanc. Funding for various parts of the project was provided by a Humanities Initiative Teaching and Research Grant from Brown University, along with a Summer Research Grant from the John Carter Brown Library. Several people read through the book manuscript and offered valuable suggestions, including William Brackney, David D. Hall, Tim Harris, and Adrian Weimer, in addition to the anonymous readers for Baylor University Press. Several pieces of the introductory essay were presented at the John Carter Brown Library, Duke Divinity School, Roger Williams University, and the First Baptist Church in America (sponsored by the Roger Williams National Memorial and the National Parks Service), where attentive audiences asked probing questions . Jo Fisher helpfully copyedited the entire manuscript, and Lynn Carlson created the maps of New England. Images of the Roger Williams shorthand are reproduced courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library. The authors thank the editors and staff at Baylor University Press, in particular Carey Newman, Diane Smith, and Jordan Rowan Fannin, who graciously guided this project from submission to publication. This page intentionally left blank ...

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