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The Settlements So Far…. The Curious Case of Anne Hutchinson. Anne Hutchinson. Born in England, 1591 Daughter of a Deacon in Cambridge, London Marries Will Hutchinson at age 21. Anne Hutchinson. Hutchinson bears 15 children
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Anne Hutchinson Born in England, 1591 Daughter of a Deacon in Cambridge, London Marries Will Hutchinson at age 21
Anne Hutchinson • Hutchinson 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 followers
Challenges to Society She’s a female preacher, challenging the Puritans She’s put on trial and expelled from the colony Flees to Rhode Island
Edward Abbey, 1901 The Trial of Anne Hutchinson
Hutchinson Killed • Moves to New York when husband dies • Killed, along with five children, by Mohican Indians • 1643