What Was The Difference Between Anne Hutchinson And John Winthrop

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Colonists living in the seventeen-hundreds within North America often had very limited freedom of religion. In a dispute between Anne Hutchinson and John Winthrop, Winthrop in a trial judging whether Anne was guilty or not said, “[w]e must therefore put it away from you or restrain you from maintaining this course,” to which Anne responded with, “[i]f you have a rule for it from God’s word you may” (Voices of Freedom, 36). Meaning, the idea of freedom of religion was slightly already within the minds of a few, and with time the idea would spread throughout the colonies. One of the first colonies to establish religious freedom was Maryland, “…no person or persons whatever in the Province… professing to believe in Jesus Christ, shall from henceforth
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