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Portsmouth Herald EXETER – UNH history professor Cynthia Van Zandt will make a presentation about John Wheelwright and the founding of Exeter on May 4.  The event sponsored by the Exeter Historical Society and ExeterTV will take place at 7 p.m. on the online platform Zoom. It can also be viewed on the Historical Society’s Facebook page and on Channel 98. This program is free, open to the public and will be recorded for those unable to attend. It will be followed by the annual meeting of the society’s membership. The program is generously sponsored by an anonymous donor.  To attend vi...

The Trial of Anne Hutchinson Article Send to Google Classroom: X Anne Hutchinson (l. 1591-1643 CE) was a religious dissident who was brought to trial by John Winthrop (l. c. 1588-1649 CE) and the other magistrates of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1637 CE for spreading "erroneous opinions" regarding religious belief and practice. She is known as the central figure in the Antinomian Controversy ( antinomian from the Greek for “against the law”) which challenged the authority of the colony's magistrates. The Bay Colony had been established by Winthrop on the precept of complete conformit...

Providence Colony Send to Google Classroom: Providence Colony (also known as Providence Plantation, modern-day Providence, Rhode Island, USA) was a settlement established in 1636 CE by the Puritan separatist theologian and pastor Roger Williams (l. 1603-1683 CE) after he was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Williams objected to a number of policies pursued by Massachusetts Bay, as well as Plymouth Colony, especially the fusion of church and state and those related to Native Americans. He wrote a tract criticizing the policy of taking land from Native Americans without proper compen...

Winthrop & Williams: Religious Persecution & Freedom in New England Article Send to Google Classroom: X The Puritans who settled New England claimed they came to the New World for religious freedom but, once settled, made it clear that this freedom was for themselves only and dissent would not be tolerated. Although the most famous example of this is Anne Hutchinson (l. 1591-1643 CE) who was banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony for her religious views in 1638 CE, an earlier illustration of this same kind of reaction to dissent is the banishment of the Puritan separatist minister Roger Will...

Anne Hutchinson (l. 1591-1643 CE) was a religious reformer, Puritan preacher, midwife, and alleged prophetess whose beliefs and influence brought her into...