The Children of Adam and Eve

Anne and all but one member of her family were killed in an Indian
massacre.

She had 14 Children, and following the lead of their firstborn son,
immigrated with her family in 1634 to the Massachusetts Bay Colony at
Boston. There her gentle nature and exceptional powers of mind Brought her
a following. At meetings that she organized among Boston women, and that
many leaders of the community later attended, she preached a doctrine of
salvation realized through the intuition of God's indwelling in grace.
Appearing to eliminate the need for the externals of institutionalized
belief and law, her teachings were considered an attack on the rigid moral
and legal codes of the Puritans of New England, as well as the authority
of the Massachusetts clergy. Because of this, she caused a great political
controversy in the colony, and Strong partisanship aRose on both sides.
Many of her supPorters deserted her when the governor, Sir Henry Vane, who
favored her cause, lost his office to her staunch opponent, the colonial
leader John Winthrop. In 1637 she was tried by the General Court of
Massachusetts, presided over by Winthrop, on the charge of "traducing the
ministers" (such ministers as the brilliant preacher John Cotton). The
trial was a travesty of justice; Hutchinson was found guilty,
excommunicated, and banished from the colony. She moved with her husband
and family to the island of Aquidneck (now part of Rhode Island) and after
the Death of her husband settled in what is now Pelham Bay, the Bronx, New
York.