USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -John Wheelwright (c. 1592–1679) was a Puritan clergyman in England and America, noted for being banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the Antinomian Controversy, and for subsequently establishing the town of Exeter, New Hampshire.

Detailed explanation-2: -He migrated with his family to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, where he was minister of churches in Quincy and Braintree. Controversy dogged Wheelwright’s career, and in 1637 he was banished from the colony for supporting the doctrine of Anne Hutchinson (c. 1591-1643), a relative of his wife.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -(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-5: -John Winthrop (1588–1649) was an early Puritan leader whose vision for a godly commonwealth created the basis for an established religion that remained in place in Massachusetts until well after adoption of the First Amendment. It was, however, eventually superseded by ideas of separation of church and state.