HUTCHINSON, ANNE (c. 1600-1643), American religious enthusiast, was born in Lincolnshire, England, the daughter of a clergyman, Francis Marbury, and according to tradition, a cousin of John Dryden. She married William Hutchinson, and in emigrated to Boston, Massachusetts. Although her orthodoxy was suspected and for a time she was not admitted to the church, she soon organized meetings among the Boston women, among whom her exceptional ability and her services as a nurse had given her great influence. At these meetings, which were soon attended even by some of the ministers and magistrates, she discussed and com mented upon recent sermons and gave expression to her own theological views. She asserted that she, John Cotton and her brother-in-law, the Rev. John Wheelwright, were under a "cove nant of grace," that they had a special inspiration, a "peculiar indwelling of the Holy Ghost," whereas the other ministers of the colony were under a "covenant of works." Anne Hutchinson, according to Winthrop a woman "of a ready wit and bold spirit," was. in fact, voicing a protest against the legalism of the Massa chusetts Puritans, and was also striking at the authority of the clergy in an intensely theocratic community. As a result the entire colony was divided into factions. Mrs. Hutchinson wa s supported by Governor Vane, Cotton, Wheelwright and the great majority of the Boston church ; opposed to her were Deputy Governor John Winthrop, the Rev. John Wilson of the Boston church and all of the country magistrates and churches. The strength of the parties was tested at the general court of election of May 1637, when Winthrop defeated Vane for the governorship. Cotton recanted, Vane returned to England in disgust, Wheel wright was tried and banished. Mrs. Hutchinson was tried by the general court chiefly for "traducing the ministers," and was sen tenced to banishment; later she was tried before the Boston church and formally excommunicated. With William Coddington and others she established a settlement on the island of Aquidneck (now Rhode Island) in 1638. Four years later, after the death of her husband, she settled on Long Island sound near what is now New Rochelle, N.Y., and was killed by the Indians in Aug. 1643, an event regarded in Massachusetts as a manifestation of divine providence. Anne Hutchinson and her followers were called "Antinomians," rather as a term of reproach than with any reference to her doctrinal theories; and the controversy in which she was involved is known as the "Antinomian controversy." See C. F. Adams, Three Episodes of Massachusetts History (1892) and the life by G. E. Ellis in Jared Sparks, Library of American Biography, 2nd ser., vol. 6 (1845).