He was a minor at the time of his arrival, but his name appears on several of the early documents related to the settlement of Providence.
Thomas Angell was one of the four men who spent the winter of 1636 with Roger Williams at Seekonk in the Plymouth Colony (later Rehoboth, Massachusetts).
They established the settlement of Providence Plantation in the late spring on the upper reaches of the Narragansett Bay.
[1][2] Angell was a minor at the time, but the adult men in the group brought their wives and children with them.
[7] Alice's sister Mary married Thomas Olney, another Providence settler, and her brother James also came to New England.