Anne Hutchinson was charged with heresy and sedition in a Massachusetts court in the year 1638 and was excommunicated from the church and banished from the colony for nurturing unorthodox religious views.
Explanation: Anne Hutchinson was an Anglican, a school teacher and a midwife. She held strong religious beliefs as a protestant christian that went against that of the church in Boston Massachusetts. She grew popular by the day and posed a big threat to the Massachusetts bay colony. She played an all important role in the Free grace controversy alongside John Cotton. This brought about a split to the protestant community in Massachusetts, in which she held religious discussions and meetings in her home with many of her supporters. She was put on trial, found guilty, and banished from the bay colony.
