Anne MARBURY

Elle émigre aux Etats-Unis en 1634.

Elle est tuée par les Indiens.

She was a pioneer settler in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Netherlands and the unauthorized minister of a dissident church discussion group.

Anne Hutchinson was an influential Puritan spiritual leader in colonialNew England who challenged the religious doctrines of her time. She was born in 1591 in Lincolnshire, England, to a Puritan minister named Francis Marbury. Anne married William Hutchinson in 1612 and began to work as a midwife and herbalist in Alford. She became a follower of Puritan minister John Cotton, who preached that mercy is preordained by God,but damnation is determined by earthly behavior. Hutchinson began to vigorously spread Cotton’s message to other women, with Cotton’s approval, since more women would often enter his congregation after following Anne’s persuasiveness. She believed heaven was open to those who worshipped God through a personal connection, without the need for any churchintervention. These and other beliefs caused Hutchinson and her familyto be banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1637.

Anne and her family were killed by Indians.

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