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Anne Hutchinson, having defeated every argument against her in the civil trial, cannot resist having the last word and in so doing condemns herself. She is banished, and after a long winter under house arrest and a second trial to excommunicate her, she joins her family and followers on Aquidneck Island, soon to be Rhode Island.
So how was it that she died on the future site of a golf course in The Bronx?
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Selected references for this episode
Eve LaPlante, American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans
Edmund S. Morgan, The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop
Edmund S. Morgan, “The Case Against Anne Hutchinson,” The New England Quarterly, December 1937
Thanks for this nice series on Ann Marbury Hutchinson. She is the 10th great-grandmother of my wife, Judy, who is one of her 15,000 living descendants. Judy is descended from her daughter, Faith, whose daughter, Dyonisia Savage, marries Thomas Ravenscraft. The Ravenscraft descendants will eventually become early settlers of Kentucky. We look forward to when you get to that part of the American story, as many of Judy’s ancestors were part of the great migration into Kentucky and the Ohio Valley, and participated in some of the historic events there. You may run into that family in your research. Really enjoying your podcasts, this is by far my all-time favorite podcast series. I wish my high school and college history classes had been this thorough and entertaining.