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Hutchinson (ANNE an American religious)

ANNE, an American religious enthusiast; born in Lincolnshire, England, about 1590. Daughter of a Lincolnshire clergyman named Marbury; she married a Mr. Hutchinson, and in 1634 they emigrated to Boston, Mass. She held various theological heresies; among others, that the person of the Holy Ghost dwells in justified persons. She held meetings, lectured, and denounced the Massachusetts clergy.

MONIANISM (q. v.). Being tried for heresy and sedition, she was banished from the colony. She and her friends Her followers were charged with ANTIremoved to Rhode Island, where they acquired territory from the Narragansett Indians. After the death of her husband (who shared her opinions) she removed to a new settlement in New York State, where, in 1643, she and her whole family of 15 persons were taken prisoners by the Indians, and all but one daughter barbarously murdered.