USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The clergy felt that Anne Hutchinson was a threat to the entire Puritan experiment. They decided to arrest her for heresy. In her trial she argued intelligently with John Winthrop, but the court found her guilty and banished her from Massachusetts Bay in 1637. Roger Williams was a similar threat.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1635, Williams was tried by the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and found guilty of holding four dangerous opinions at variance with official policy. His sentence was banishment from the colony. Williams fled Massachusetts before prosecutors could send him back to England.

Detailed explanation-3: -(Library of Congress) In November 1637, Anne Hutchinson was sentenced to banishment by the Massachusetts Bay Colony, having been declared a “woman not fit for our society.” As a midwife, wife, and mother of fifteen children, Hutchinson was held in high esteem by the Boston community.

Detailed explanation-4: -Religious intolerance in Massachusetts Bay When dissenters, including Puritan minister Roger Williams and midwife Anne Hutchinson, challenged Governor Winthrop in Massachusetts Bay in the 1630s, they both were banished from the colony. Roger Williams questioned the Puritans’ theft of Native American land.