ANNE HUTCHINSON 1591 1643 RELIGIOUS REFORMER HUTCHINSON ANNE 1591 1643 RELIGION COLONIES AMERICAN CULTURE ANNE MARBURY WAS BORN IN ALFORD ENGLAND SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF A MINISTER IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN 1612 ANNE MARRIED WILLIAM HUTCHINSON AND THEY HAD 12 CHILDREN IN 1634 THE HUTCHINSONS MOVED TO BOSTON ALMOST IMMEDIATELY ANNE HUTCHINSON'S PURITAN BELIEFS CLASHED WITH THOSE OF THE COLONY'S LEADERS HUTCHINSON BELIEVED IN THE COVENANT OF GRACE MEANING THAT FATE AND NOT ACTIONS DETERMINED WHETHER PEOPLE WOULD BE SAVED BY GOD'S GRACE MANY MASSACHUSETTS PURITANS VIEWED THIS THINKING AS DANGEROUS BECAUSE IT GAVE PEOPLE NO REASON TO BE GOOD OR FOLLOW RULES HUTCHINSON BEGAN TO ATTRACT A NUMBER OF FOLLOWERS INCLUDING IMPORTANT COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO MET REGULARLY AT HER HOME FOR RELIGIOUS DISCUSSION IN 1637 SHE WAS PUT ON TRIAL FOR HER BELIEFS AND CONVICTED FOR CONTRADICTING THE COLONY'S LEADERS SHE WAS BANISHED FROM THE COLONY SHE AND A GROUP OF FOLLOWERS FOUNDED THE NEW COLONY OF PORTSMOUTH ON AQUIDNECK ISLAND NOW KNOWN AS RHODE ISLAND IN 1638 WHEN HER HUSBAND DIED IN 1642 HUTCHINSON MOVED TO A DUTCH SETTLEMENT ON LONG ISLAND IN PRESENT DAY NEW YORK SHE WAS KILLED IN ATTACK BY AMERICAN INDIANS IN 1643
