Anne Hutchinson

Living in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the mid seventeenth century required most people of the community to conform to certain ideals. It was the Puritan way of life and therefore the community set high values and morals in their faith. Women kept very quite and men were the only people who were allowed to attend social events. That all changed in the community when the Hutchinson family arrived from England. Anne Hutchinson was into religion and where she came from it wasn’t wrong for women to hold meetings or be part of the community in many ways. John Winthrop and the rest of the Puritan society thought differently. When Anne was holding meetings after church and secretly talking in the antinomian way, they had to do something about it.
I believe that Anne did in a way pose a threat to the leaders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Before she came, the Puritans did have to deal with the Antinomians. It wasn’t until she was conducting the secret “meetings” that...