Anne Hutchinson was born Anne Marbury in Alford, England, in 1591. Francis Marbury, Anne’s father, spoke out that many of the ordained ministers in the Church of England were not fit to guide people's souls. Anne's father was a deacon at Christ Church, Cambridge. 1636 Anne Hutchinson was charged with heresy and banishes from the Massachusetts Colony. She was a very religious woman and challenged the Puritan clergy. Her preaching was considered heresy by the Puritans. …showed first 75 words of 474 total…

…showed last 75 words of 474 total…to trial because of her beliefs. She probably would not have been so soon convicted or treated with such disrespect by the court if she had been a male. She was not justly tried because she did not fit into the predisposed role of women in this period, which is having no will or mind of their own. Anne was a brave woman who started the process of change in the intolerable Puritan New England.