Anne Hutchinson

Anne Hutchinson was an English-born religious dissenter in colonial Massachusetts whose challenges to Puritan clergy led to her 1637 trial and banishment.

Puritanism: A Protestant reform movement that sought to purify the Church of England and shaped New England’s religious culture. Its strict religious authority framed the dispute Hutchinson brought into public life.
Antinomian Controversy: A 1630s Massachusetts religious conflict over grace, good works, and the authority of Puritan ministers. Hutchinson’s meetings and theological claims became the controversy’s central focus.
Rhode Island Colony: An English colony founded in New England in the seventeenth century with comparatively broad religious toleration. Hutchinson settled there after Massachusetts expelled her.
Women in Colonial America: The varied social, economic, and political experiences of women in Britain’s North American colonies. Hutchinson’s public religious leadership challenged the gender expectations governing colonial women.
Massachusetts Bay Colony: An English colony founded in New England in 1630 and governed by Puritan leaders. Its church-centered government prosecuted Hutchinson and ordered her banishment.
1637 Trial of Anne Hutchinson: The Massachusetts court proceeding that found Hutchinson guilty of sedition and banished her from the colony. The civil trial turned religious dissent into a charge against colonial order.
Roger Williams: An English-born Puritan minister who founded Providence after his banishment from Massachusetts. He shared Hutchinson’s experience of expulsion and helped establish Rhode Island.
Religious Dissent: The rejection or criticism of a religious institution’s doctrines, practices, or authority. Her conflict with ministers became a defining early American case of dissent.
John Winthrop: A Puritan leader who served as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony for multiple terms. He opposed Hutchinson and helped direct the colony’s case against her.
Church of England: The established Christian church of England, governed historically by the monarch and episcopal hierarchy. Hutchinson’s early religious world and Puritan dissent developed within its institutions.

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