Anne Hutchinson

The Massachusetts Bay Colony was meant to be a role model for future settlements in the New World. John Winthrop made a speech to the settlers before they even landed. He explained to them that they would be a "city upon a hill." They would be everything that every other settlement would want to be.

John Winthrop's vision of the colony was to have it be perfect in the eyes of others. He wanted it to be a "city upon a hill" and a role model. He wanted people to want to live there because it was so great. John wanted other settlements to model themselves after the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He wanted the settlers to not mess up or God would plague and punish them.

Mr. John Winthrop was very much against Mrs. Hutchinson. He believed that she should be kicked out of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He thought that she was disrupting their society by teaching religion different than the Reverends. Winthrop thought that she should stop having men and women come into her home and have meetings and teaching. He also thinks that she is not qualified to do the teachings of the Lord. Another reason John wanted her out was that she was claiming that she spoke directly to the Lord. Dept. Gov. Th. Dudley said that religious dissension in MA was caused by Anne and that she was threatening the colony's very existence. The Reverends were claiming that Anne criticized other ministers for teaching a covenant of works and claimed they were unfit to give spiritual leadership.

The Massachusetts Bay Colony became hypocritical when they kicked Anne Hutchinson out. When the settlers went to the New World, they expected to have religious freedom. That was also the reason why they left England. John Winthrop and others took that right away and made them practice a covenant of works and they could not practice with Anne or anyone else that did not teach that way.