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
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