1. By: Pooja Patel, Thomas Deignan, & Joshua Lanjwal (B2)
Puritan Dissenters
(Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, and Thomas Hooker)
By: Pooja Patel, Thomas Deignan, &
Joshua Lanjwal (B2)

2. Key Terms/People: Roger WIlliams Anne Hutchinson Thomas Hooker
Antinomianism
Heresy
Dogma
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

3. Roger Williams’ Protest:
Roger Williams was an English Puritan minister who lived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
His controversial beliefs included:
-Religious freedom
-The separation of church and state, and that no single church should be supported by taxes
-Believed stealing of land from Native Americans was unfair.

4. Roger Williams’ Punishment:
He was quickly banished from Massachusetts Bay
for his “dangerous” ideas.

5. Roger Williams Post-Punishment:
After his banishment, Williams established the colony of Rhode Island.
The colony followed his beliefs of religious freedom, attracting many other dissenters from surrounding colonies.

6. Anne Hutchinson: Protest
Who is she?
Religious views/beliefs:
"If God has predetermined for me salvation or damnation, how could any behavior of mine change my fate?"
Antinomianism:belief that the elect need not obey the law of either god or man; against the law
(Mary Dyer was the first woman executed for her religious beliefs
in Massachusetts Bay Colony)

7. Anne Hutchinson: Punishment
How it affected the colony?
(1637) banishment from Massachusetts Bay colony
Heresy; any belief/theory that is opposite to orthodox religious doctrine
(Anne Hutchinson on Trial, illustration by Edwin Austin Abbey, circa 1901)

8. Anne Hutchinson: Overview
(1638) fled to Rhode Island and settled at Aquidneck.
then to the New York mainland & eventually Hutchinson was killed

9. Thomas Hooker - Protest
Thomas Hooker served as a pastor.
Disagreement with John Cotton.
Believed in suffrage for all men

10. Thomas Hooker:Punishment
Lost favor with other ministers
Left for Hartford

11. Thomas Hooker - Post Punishment
Founded Connecticut
Wrote “The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut”