Anne Hutchinson

Who was she?

• Unauthorized Puritan preacher of a dissident church discussion group

• Challenged moral and legal codes of Puritans and legal authority of clergy

• Banished for preaching blasphemy, lewd conduct, had men and women together in her house

What was she?

• Liberal thinker

• Feminist

• Freedom seeker

• Believer in civil liberties

• Believer in Religious toleration

Family Life

• 15 children, husband, and self sailed on the “Griffin”

• Three children died aboard the Griffin

• One wa born and died in America

Death

• Killed along with all of her children by Indians

• Susannah was her only child spared

• Had red hair

• Native Americans had never before seen red hair

• They named her Autumn Leaf