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Anne Hutchinson

Type Figure Region North American colonies Time 1591–1643 Also known as Anne Hutchinson、安·哈钦森

Anne Hutchinson (1591–1643) was a Puritan woman in the Massachusetts Bay Colony who, after arriving in Boston in 1634, hosted Bible study meetings at…

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  1. 1631–1640Boston · Massachusetts Bay ColonyAfter arriving in Boston in 1634, Hutchinson gathered male and female believers at her home to discuss sermons and the doctrine of salvation, gradually forming a network of 'Hutchinsonians' that questioned the authority of the ministers relied upon by the Winthrop administration. In the Antinomian trial of 1637 she was accused of spreading dangerous theology and disrupting church order, and was banished in 1638.
  2. 1638–1643Rhode Island · Rhode IslandAfter her banishment the Hutchinson family first moved to Aquidneck Island in Rhode Island, where Roger Williams was, and later to the area of present-day Bronx in Dutch New Netherland. In 1643 she was killed in a Native American attack during Kieft's War, becoming one of the most symbolic victims of New England's religious controversies.

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