True or False?
Anne Hutchinson preached in a Puritan church in colonial Massachusetts.
False!
At the time, only men could be preachers. Anne angered church leaders by preaching about God during meetings in her home. The church leaders put Anne on trial for her spiritual teachings.
- Anne worked as a nurse and midwife. She also had fifteen children of her own.
- Because Anne was a woman, she was not allowed to have a lawyer at her trial.
- When Anne was forced to leave Boston, her family moved to the wilderness of colonial New York.