USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

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: -Roger Williams clashed with Puritan fathers on interlocking of church and state. Williams left Salem for Plymouth Colony after his religious views came to be at variance with those of the leaders of the Salem church of the time. He served as an assistant pastor in Plymouth while studying Native American languages.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -She criticized the beliefs of the Massachusetts Puritans for placing religious observance and the teaching of ministers above the conscience of the individual. After she was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, she became one of the founders of Rhode Island.