Anne Hutchinson Quotes


I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it.


Citations

"The Examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson at the Court at Newtown." The Antinomian Controversy, 1636-1638: A Documentary History, edited by David D. Hall, 2nd ed., Duke University Press, 1990, p. 314.

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Anne Hutchinson
Anne Hutchinson
  • Born: July 17, 1591
  • Died: August 27, 1643
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Midwife

Anne Hutchinson was a Puritan spiritual advisor, religious reformer, and an important participant in the Antinomian Controversy which shook the infant Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638. Her strong religious convictions were at odds with the established Puritan clergy in the Boston area and her popularity and charisma helped create a theological schism that threatened to destroy the Puritans' religious community in New England. She was eventually tried and convicted, then banished from the colony with many of her supporters.