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Oct 11, 2010 · Smart, outspoken and opinionated, Anne Hutchinson was the daughter of an English minister, well versed in the Bible and devoted to the teaching of the popular preacher John Cotton.
Anne Marbury Hutchinson was born in England, the daughter of dissident minister Francis Marbury and Bridget Dryden. She grew up in Alford in Lincolnshire, where her father taught her scripture. In 1612, she married William Hutchinson, a merchant and member of a prominent family. From 1614 to 1630, she gave birth to more than a dozen children.
Mar 31, 2012 · Anne Hutchinson was a woman of extraordinary intelligence and energy, gifted with a captivating personality that drew people toward her. Her stature was enhanced among Puritans by a superior knowledge of the Bible, developed over years of study and reflection, when the scriptures were viewed as the source of religious and moral teaching.
In 1634, Anne and William Hutchinson moved to the Massachusetts Bay Colony with their several children. William was a wealthy textile merchant who served in several government and church positions. Anne was the daughter of a Puritan clergyman who had run afoul of the authorities of the Church of England and was arrested for his dissenting views.
Anne Hutchinson. Brief life of Harvard's "midwife": 1595-1643. November-December 2002. On June 2, 1922, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts received from the Anne Hutchinson Memorial Association and the State Federation of Women's Clubs a bronze statue of Anne Hutchinson. The inscription read in part:
The clergy felt that Anne Hutchinson was a threat to the entire Puritan experiment. They decided to arrest her for heresy. In her trial she argued intelligently with John Winthrop, but the court found her guilty and banished her from Massachusetts Bay in 1637. Roger Williams was a similar threat. The ideas of religious freedom and fair dealings ...
Anne Hutchinson. (b. 1591, Alford, Lincolnshire, England; d. 1643, Pelham Bay Park, New York) Anne Marbury Hutchinson was a Puritan, who held discussions in her home in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, critiquing the Bible and Puritan laws. These sessions, which were in opposition to society’s religious codes and inappropriate for a woman to ...
