Free Will Baptists or Free Baptists are a group of General Baptist denominations of Christianity that teach free grace, free salvation and free will. The movement can be traced back to the 1600s with the development of General Baptism in England. Its formal establishment is widely linked to the English theologian, Thomas Helwys who led the Baptist movement to believe in general atonement. He was an advocate of religious liberty at a time when to hold to such views could be dangerous and punishable by death. He died in prison as a consequence of the religious persecution of Protestant dissenters under King James I.
Benjamin Randall (1749–1808) was the founder of the Free Will Baptist movement in New England the late 18th century.
Return of Roger Williams, a later supporter of the movement, after denouncing the Puritan movement in 1644
Benjamin Randall was an American Baptist minister the main organizer of the Free Will Baptists in the northeastern United States.
Benjamin Randall
Benjamin Randall's grave