Anne Hutchinson

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Anne Hutchinson (née Marbury; July 1591 – August 1643) was an English-born religious figure who emigrated with her family from England to the New World. She was an important participant in the Antinomian Controversy that shook the nascent Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638. Her strong religious formal declarations were at odds with the established Puritan clergy in the Boston area and her popularity and charisma helped create a theological schism that threatened the Puritan religious community there. She was eventually tried and convicted, and banished from the colony along with many of her supporters. Five years after her banishment, she and several members of her family and household were killed in a massacre committed by Native Americans in New Netherland, where the household had moved. Hutchinson was born in Alford, Lincolnshire, the daughter of Francis Marbury and his wife. He was an Anglican cleric and school teacher who gave her a far better education than most other girls...

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