Facts about Anne Hutchinson

Upheld equally as a symbol of religious freedom, liberal thinking and feminism, Anne Hutchinson has been a contentious figure in American history, in turn lionized, mythologized, and demonized.

Anne Hutchinson was born Anne Marbury on July 17, 1591, in Alford, Lincolnshire, England.

In 1987, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis pardoned Anne Hutchinson, in order to revoke the order of banishment by Governor Endicott, 350 years earlier.

Anne Hutchinson is often seen as an early American feminist who challenged a religious, male-dominated hierarchy based on an inner prompting.