USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Although Anne Hutchinson was banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony for her political and religious beliefs, she has gone down in history as a woman of great courage and symbol of freedom of religion and speech.

Detailed explanation-2: -Religious dissident Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony by the General Court of Massachusetts. Williams had spoken out against the right of civil authorities to punish religious dissension and to confiscate Native American land.

Detailed explanation-3: -In direct violation of Puritan doctrine and church structure, she believed heaven was open to those who worshipped God through a personal connection, without the need of any church intervention. These and other beliefs caused Hutchinson and her family to be banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Detailed explanation-4: -On this day in 1638, Anne Hutchinson was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Three years after arriving in Boston, she found herself the first female defendant in a Massachusetts court.

Detailed explanation-5: -Civil trial: day 1 Hutchinson was brought to trial on 7 November 1637, with Wheelwright banished and other court business settled. Governor John Winthrop presided over the trial, in which Hutchinson was charged with “traducing [slandering] the ministers".