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Article: Exile in the wilderness: Anne Hutchinson in Rhode Island.
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- November 1, 2003
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No one who disagreed with church officials was welcome in Massachusetts Bay. Two years before Anne Hutchinson's trial, Roger Williams, a minister in Salem, Massachusetts, had been banished for his opinions. He believed that the government and the church should be separate. Williams was a friend to the local American Indians and thought settlers should buy land from the true owners--the Indians--and not just take it.
After Williams left Massachusetts Bay in 1636, his Narragansett Indian friends sold him land on Narragansett Bay in present-day Rhode Island. He and his followers established a settlement, or "plantation," at Providence. It became known as a community ...