Religious Dissenters

By: Cayla Petrowski, Josiah Brown, and Stephen Marciniak

Anne Hutchinson

Who she was

● Puritan● Daughter of a minister● In Massachusetts Bay she

was a house wife, mother, and held meetings

● Meetings were all woman who discussed the sermon

Ideas and how they're Revolutionary ● Preached that God dwelled

on grace● Created political

conseversy ● Spoke against the church● Gained a new philosophy ● One of the first women to

speak out, especially against men

● First female feminist

Why she was exciled

● Created problems with the church

● Did not fit in society ● Accused Puritan ministers of

not following their roles

Founded

● Founded Portsmouth● Co-founded Rhode Island

Roger Williams

Beginnings

● Born in London (1603)● Became a Puritan in

England● Left England (1630)● Arrived in Massachusetts

Bay (1631)

Ideas and Preachings

● Stealing land from the Indians is evil

● The separation of church and stateo Religious freedom

Banishment● Was tried for heresy and

sedition● Was ordered to be

banished● He escaped before he was

banished (1636)

Colony founded

● Founded the Providence colony

● Integrated his ideas into the colony

Thomas Hooker

The Beginning

● Born July 5th or 7th 1586, Markfield, England

● 1621, started preaching at St. Mary’s Parish Church

● The Archbishop forced Hooker to retire● Hooker summoned to Court of High

Commision in 1930● Fled to Rotterdam in 1930● Emigrated to Massachusetts Bay Colony in

1933

St. Mary’s Parish Church

Mass. Bay Colony

● Was pastor of first est. church in Newton (Cambridge).

● Hooker disagreed on the way that voting was handled.

● 1636, left Mass. Bay with Rev. Samuel Stone, founded Hartford Connecticut.

Rev. Samuel Stone

Connecticut● More politically free.● Fundamental Orders of

Connecticut. (adopted 1/15/1639 O.S. (1/24/1639 N.S.))

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