The Curious Case of Anne Hutchinson
The Settlements So FarWhere?Why?Who?VirginiaInvestors ($$$)John
RolfeMarylandRefuge for CatholicsLord BaltimoreMass BayPuritansJohn
WinthropRhode IslandReligious freedomRoger
WilliamsPennsylvaniaQuakersWilliam
PennConnecticutSeaport/FarmingThomas HookerThe Curious Case of Anne
Hutchinson
Anne HutchinsonBorn in England, 1591
Daughter of a Deacon in Cambridge, London
Marries Will Hutchinson at age 21Anne HutchinsonHutchinson bears
15 children
Anne and Will follow John Cotton, Puritan preacher, to New
England (1634)The Great Puritan Migration
She meets with wives for discussion, soon gathers lots of
followersChallenges to SocietyShes a female preacher, challenging
the Puritans
Shes put on trial and expelled from the colony
Flees to Rhode Island
Edward Abbey, 1901The Trial of Anne HutchinsonHutchinson
KilledMoves to New York when husband dies
Killed, along with five children, by Mohican Indians1643