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Anne Hutchinson (née Marbury; July 1591 – August 1643) was a Puritan spiritual advisor, religious reformer, and an important participant in the Antinomian Controversy which shook the infant Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638.
Thomas Hutchinson was a descendant of Anne Hutchinson and loyalist governor of Massachusetts, and he published the History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay in 1767 which includes the most complete extant transcript of Hutchinson's trial. This transcript is found in the compilations of both Adams and Hall.
The document was written and signed by a group of Christian dissidents who were seeking religious freedom from the governmental oversight of the Massachusetts Bay Colony by moving to Aquidneck Island to set up a new colony. Among this group was Anne Hutchinson, who had been banished from Massachusetts Bay following the Antinomian Controversy ...
He was banished in 1635 from the Massachusetts Bay Colony and founded Providence Plantations, which became the Rhode Island Colony. The Rhode Island Colony provided a haven for Anne Hutchinson , who had been tried and banished from Massachusetts Bay in 1638 for her antinomian beliefs. [ 10 ]
She held meetings in her home where she discussed religious matters, and her teachings gained a following. However, Hutchinson was eventually put on trial and banished from the colony for her outspoken beliefs, which were seen as heretical. Her case is often cited as an example of the limitations imposed on women in Puritan society.
A proponent of religious tolerance, as governor, he defended Anne Hutchinson [2] and her right to teach religious topics in her home which put him in direct conflict with the Puritan leaders in the Massachusetts Colony. [3] [4] He returned to England after losing re-election and eventually, Hutchinson was banned from the colony. [5]
The Reverend John Wheelwright and Anne Hutchinson were banished from the Massachusetts colony, and many of their supporters were also compelled to leave. Coddington was not asked to depart, but he felt that the outcome of the controversy was unjust and decided to join many of his fellow parishioners in exile.
A divisive religious controversy arose in Boston, and Sanford was disarmed for supporting his mother-in-law Anne Hutchinson, who was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was then compelled to leave Massachusetts as well; he and many others signed an agreement to form a government, then settled on Rhode Island.