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?

Twitter: @TheHistoryOfTh2

Facebook: The History of the Americans Podcast

Subscribe by email

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