[[image:Anne_hutchinson_trial.jpg|300px|thumb|Mrs. Hutchinson on Trial.]]
[[image:Anne_hutchinson_trial.jpg|300px|thumb|Mrs. Hutchinson on Trial.]]
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'''Anne Marbury Hutchinson''' (1591 – 1643) was a [[Puritan]] colonist who defied church leaders by teaching that ordinary people could interpret the [[Bible]] for themselves. She began holding her own [[Christian]] meetings for women at her home in [[Boston]], which some men even begun to attend.
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'''Anne Marbury Hutchinson''' (1591 – 1643) was a [[Puritan]] colonist who defied church leaders by teaching that ordinary people could interpret the [[Bible]] for themselves. She began holding her own [[Christian]] meetings for women at her home in [[Boston]], which were even attended by some men.
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Anne was put on trial twice in the [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]], for [[heresy]] and for challenging government authority. Eventually, she was banished from the colony and she relocated to [[Rhode Island]] in 1638. Thirty-five families followed her when she left. She was killed by [[Native American|Indians]] on [[Long Island]] in 1643.
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Hutchinson was put on trial twice in the [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]], for [[heresy]] and for challenging government authority. Eventually, she was banished from the colony and she relocated to [[Rhode Island]] in 1638. Thirty-five families followed her when she left. She was killed by [[Native American|Indians]] on [[Long Island]] in 1643.