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Fri 31 Jul, 2009 10:35 pm
Where was anne hutchinson banished to?
@joseph888,
Initially , to the Providence Plantation:
Quote:Hutchinson refused to recant and accepted her exile. In the spring of 1638 she and her family left Massachusetts Bay for the more tolerant Providence Plantation founded by Roger Williams. After her husband died, she moved to New Amsterdam. There, in 1643, she and five of her children were killed in an Indian raid. John Winthrop viewed her violent death as a sign of God's final judgment on her blasphemy.
http://massmoments.org/moment.cfm?mid=88
Sounds as though she was banished FROM the Massachusetts Colony....and where she went was her decision.
I doubt she was instructed to go TO a specific place...it was a matter of where she chose/who would accept her.
FASCINATING woman, isn't she?
Here's the wikipaedia entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Hutchinson
Another source:
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap1/hutchinson.html
She went to Rhode Island, which is what is meant by the Providence Plantation. Roger Williams was the first in a long line of "heretics" who were exiled from the Massachusetts Bay Company's territory, and Rhode Island became a haven for those who were so exiled.
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