Anne Hutchinson

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Anne Hutchinson was a Puritan spiritual leader in colonial New England whose religious dissent and trial for heresy made her a symbol of early American challenges to clerical authority and a pioneer of religious liberty.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Puritan spiritual leader
colonial American figure
person
religious dissenter
associatedWith Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
surface form: Rhode Island Colony
birthName Anne Marbury
chargedWith heresy
sedition
commemoratedBy Anne Hutchinson Memorial in New York
conflict John Winthrop
Massachusetts Bay Colony
surface form: Massachusetts Bay Colony authorities
countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of England
dateOfBirth 1591
dateOfDeath 1643
era colonial New England
exiledTo Rhode Island
father Francis Marbury
fullName Anne Hutchinson self-link
heldPosition midwife
immigratedTo Massachusetts Bay Colony
influenced Roger Williams
traditions of religious liberty in America
influencedBy John Cotton
Puritanism
surface form: Puritan covenant theology
knownFor Antinomian Controversy in Massachusetts
surface form: Antinomian Controversy in New England

advocacy of religious liberty and freedom of conscience
challenging Puritan clerical authority in Massachusetts Bay Colony
holding mixed-gender religious meetings in her home
laterMovedTo New Netherland
legacy early advocate of women’s role in religious life
pioneer of freedom of conscience in the American colonies
symbol of early American religious freedom
mannerOfDeath killed in an attack by Native Americans
memorial statue at the Massachusetts State House in Boston
mother Bridget Dryden
movement Antinomianism
nameGivenTo Hutchinson River Parkway
surface form: Hutchinson River Parkway in New York
numberOfChildren 15
placeOfBirth Alford, Lincolnshire, England
placeOfDeath New Netherland
punishment banishment from Massachusetts Bay Colony
religion Puritanism
residence Boston, Massachusetts
surface form: Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony

near present-day Pelham Bay, Bronx, New York
settledIn Portsmouth, Rhode Island
spouse William Hutchinson
trial church trial in Boston in 1638
civil trial in Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1637
yearOfImmigration 1634

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John Cotton associatedWith Anne Hutchinson
Anne Hutchinson fullName Anne Hutchinson self-link