ANNE HUTCHINSON was a dutiful housewife who settled with fellow Puritans in colonial Massachusetts. When she developed her own religious ideas and preached them, she and her family were expelled to a more tolerant Rhode Island. Threatened when the ministers tried to take over that colony, she fled to The Bronx near today’s Co-op City in 1642. Killed in an Indian attack, she left her name in the nearby Hutchinson River and the later parkway named for it. By the way it is said that presidents Roosevelt and bush are descendants of Hutchinson
Posted on: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 23:59:39 +0000
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