USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Hutchinson, her husband, and their children left Massachusetts for a new colony in Rhode Island led by Roger Williams, a fellow religious dissident who had been banished a year earlier. Learn more about religion in colonial North America here.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Among those who found a haven in the religious and political refuge of the Rhode Island Colony were Anne Hutchinson-like Williams, she had been exiled from Massachusetts for religious reasons-some of the first Jews to settle in North America, and the Quakers.

Detailed explanation-4: -Williams put on trial for speaking his mind, banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony. Williams believed that the magistrates had no jurisdiction over the consciences and souls of people, and he further denied the validity of oaths when oaths were the most solemn of undertakings at that time.

Detailed explanation-5: -Anne Marbury grew up primarily in the town of Alford, in Lincolnshire, England, near where Captain John Smith (who helped to settle Virginia) came from. But she also spent a few formative years in London, where Roger Williams was growing up.