USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Hutchinson is a key figure in the history of religious freedom in England’s American colonies and the history of women in ministry, challenging the authority of the ministers. She is honored by Massachusetts with a State House monument calling her a “courageous exponent of civil liberty and religious toleration".

Detailed explanation-2: -In doing so, she attracted the ire of the colony’s leaders and clergy, who viewed her as a threat to their authority. 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.

Detailed explanation-3: -But within three years, Anne Hutchinson would stand before a Massachusetts court, charged with heresy and sedition. In 1638 she would be excommunicated from the church and banished from the colony for holding and teaching unorthodox religious views.

Detailed explanation-4: -Definition. Anne Hutchinson (l. 1591-1643 CE) was a religious reformer, Puritan preacher, midwife, and alleged prophetess whose beliefs and influence brought her into conflict with the magistrates of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, especially its governor John Winthrop (l. c. 1588-1649 CE) in 1636-1638 CE.