Who is Anne Hutchinson?

Anne Hutchinson was a real person who lived in the 15 and
1600s.  She is most famous for what happened to her when she lived in the Massachusetts
Bay Colony.  Basically, Anne Hutchinson was expelled from that colony for having
improper religious beliefs and for talking about and promoting those beliefs.  She was
seen as a threat to the established Puritan order in the
colony.

Anne Hutchinson's major problem was that she
preached a doctrine that would have undermined Puritan authority.  She taught that she
knew what God wanted her to do and that there was no need to submit to what the Puritan
leadership told her to do.