The Settlements So Far…Where? Why? Who?

Virginia Investors ($$$) John Rolfe

Maryland Refuge for Catholics Lord Baltimore

Mass Bay Puritans John Winthrop

Rhode Island Religious freedom Roger Williams

Pennsylvania Quakers William Penn

Connecticut Seaport/Farming Thomas Hooker

The Curious Case of Anne Hutchinson

Anne Hutchinson

Born in England, 1591

Daughter of a Deacon in Cambridge, London

Marries Will Hutchinson at age 21

Anne Hutchinson

Hutchinson bears 15 children

Anne and Will follow John Cotton, Puritan preacher, to New England (1634) The Great Puritan Migration

She meets with wives for discussion, soon gathers lots of followers

Challenges to Society

She’s a female preacher, challenging the Puritans

She’s put on trial and expelled from the colony

Flees to Rhode Island

Edward Abbey, 1901The Trial of Anne Hutchinson

Hutchinson Killed

Moves to New York when husband dies

Killed, along with five children, by Mohican Indians 1643