The Curious Case of Anne Hutchinson

The Settlements So FarWhere?Why?Who?VirginiaInvestors ($$$)John RolfeMarylandRefuge for CatholicsLord BaltimoreMass BayPuritansJohn WinthropRhode IslandReligious freedomRoger WilliamsPennsylvaniaQuakersWilliam PennConnecticutSeaport/FarmingThomas HookerThe Curious Case of Anne Hutchinson

Anne HutchinsonBorn in England, 1591

Daughter of a Deacon in Cambridge, London

Marries Will Hutchinson at age 21Anne HutchinsonHutchinson bears 15 children

Anne and Will follow John Cotton, Puritan preacher, to New England (1634)The Great Puritan Migration

She meets with wives for discussion, soon gathers lots of followersChallenges to SocietyShes a female preacher, challenging the Puritans

Shes put on trial and expelled from the colony

Flees to Rhode Island

Edward Abbey, 1901The Trial of Anne HutchinsonHutchinson KilledMoves to New York when husband dies

Killed, along with five children, by Mohican Indians1643