With justifiable Yankee pride he speaks of the atmosphere of tolerance Roger Williams set up in his Rhode Island haven. Williams knew bigotry and oppression and it taught him tolerance. In like manner the founder of the Pennsylvania colony had been a religious refugee in Holland. William Penn and his Society of Friends made Penns Woods a religious sanctuary for Europeans of all sects who were suffering persecution because of their way of looking up to God. As a result our State provided refuge for many followers of Peter Memno and other Germans whose descendants have become known as the Pennsylvania Dutch.