Anne Hutchinson Biography Essay

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The historical figure I got in class is Anne Hutchinson. Anne Marbury was her maiden name. Marbury was born in the year 1591 in Alford of the United Kingdom on July 1st. Marbury was the eldest daughter of her family. Her father was a priest that was removed from his office and imprisoned for asking for a more educated clergy. Marbury and her family moved to London in 1605 and her father was re-accepted into the clergy. Her father died in 1611 and left his legacy to Marbury of religious independence. In 1612, Anne Marbury moved back to Alford as a bride to William Hutchinson who was a successful cloth merchant. Hutchinson for the next twenty years learned many things like medical herbs while taking care of many kids. Anne Hutchinson lived a strong life full of fighting for her beliefs and passions. She often listened to a minister who spoke about the same views there until the Church Tried to silence him, which made him go to America, and Hutchinson persuaded her husband to follow her mentor where her husband became a deputy of the General Court as well as a successful merchant. She was very popular for her knowledge of medical herbs, she often …show more content…

She was born in Alford, U.K. in 1591 and was the eldest child of her large family of a priest. She learned about religion from her father and continued to fight for his legacy of religious independency after his death in 1611. She married William Hutchinson who was a successful cloth merchant and had several children. During the first twenty years she learned all she could about medical herbs, religions, and other subjects. When she lived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony she was put on trial for sharing her beliefs and even with her amazing defense she lost the trial and banished from the colony. Years later her husband died and later her almost all of her kids died by an Indian attack. She died on August 01, 1643 on Long Island

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