John Winthrop All pictures from Augur’'s “An Amer- Sean Jezebel,” Courtesy Brentano's. By ELMO SCOTT WATSON HE average school history gives her a brief para- graph and the c¢h are that not one American in ten could tell you who when she lived Oniy ances she was or t was her importance in history. Wherefore it is all the more remarkable (] that within recent there have appeared no less than three new books, all dealing life of Anne Hutch what was is suggested by the titles of two of them—"Unafraid a Life of Anne Hutchinson,” written by Winnifred King Rugg and published by the Houghton Mifflin company, and “An American Jezebel—The life of Anne Hitehinson,” which was written by Helen Augur and published by Bren. tano's, Where she lived—and the pride of a New York county in the fact that she once dwelt even though Massachusetts cin er part of the fact that Historical VII of its publications, Otto Hufeland’s account of “Anne Hutel son's Refuge In the Wil the leading article for that which It the title of Hutchinson and Other Papers” Who was Anne Hutchinson? Let Winnifred King Rugg In the intro- duction to her book “Unafrald” an- swer that question in these words or wha weeks with the Who and nson. she there, imed a great. fie d i iy mnty Yolnme her ecareer—Iis ind Westeh society, In Iss the ester Cot Ing chose lerness”™ as vol e to gave “Anne Anne Hutchinson has been called by many names. All the way from “the New England Jeze- bel” to “a Prototype of Joan of Are” run the epithets whole-heart- edly applied by enemies or friends, In between lie such labels as “that proud dame, that Athaliah™ “a notorious Imposter” “a daynger- ous Instrument of the Devell raysed up by Sathan,” “a Breeder of Heresies,” “a persuasive advo- cute of the right of Individual judgment,” “a she-Gamaliel™ “a , dlenr saint servant and of God" (That last is her husband speak- ing. Toor man, he suffered more on her account than any one else !) As for Anne Hutchinson's place In history, this same blographer also sums it up well In these words: What Anne Hutchinson stood for f= another reason for examining her history. She was one of the few feminists of her day. She founded what was In essence the first woman's elub In America. The meetings held in her house, though primarily for religious in- struction, were the forerunners of hundreds of thousands of meet- ings since her day, wherever wom- en convene to improve themselves or the rest of the world. The Hutchinson house, which stood at what is now the northerly corner of Washington and School streets, Boston, was the birthplace of the women's clubs of America. Anne Hutchinson's character be comes more understandable when one considers her parentage. She was the daughter of Francis Marbury, a min- fster of Northampton, England, who had braved the wrath of his bishop for the sake of his belief In “the reformation of our church in Discipline pnd Ceremonies,” had been branded “an overthwart, proud, Puritan knave” by that dignitary and had twice been put in jail. Her mother was a Dry- den, a relative of the poet, Dryden, who In his later years, though, became apostate from the Puritan beliefs of his family. Considering the turbulence of her last few years, the first 46 years of Anne Hutchinson's life were strange. ly quiet ones. Her childhood was pent in Alford and London in a heavy religious atmosphere that never lifted, In 1612, at the age of twenty-one, she was married to William Hutchinson, 4 good-hearted mercer, who from the HAnne Hutchinson Boston «1 by During the first fe she his wife, year their married Hi bore him 14 children a whic h inly in rel occupied with he of her il du ring those later IOUS was to contro- the energy MISE hold cares and the family, Dut uring that traveled r to the ne ri town of old Boston to hear lev. John . ' Botolnh i svsh rin ord nor upbringis Cotton preach in St & church. ort of an ideal orced to What this uprooting of his home an it not corded, t he had probably stobils y Ferree itchinson though d fam long oppose his wife's decisions So In A634 to Massachusetts town of the Bay jess than new Boston In colony, A raw a thousand ants living in one-room log fragile frame on the edge of the wilderness, came the Hutchinsons. Within a few months Anne became the “social lead- er and Lady Bountiful” of the settle. ment. She was a constant companion of John who basked in her admiration for him: she became a close friend of the governor, Sir Henry Vane, the younger, and she be. came a recognized leader in the re liglous discussions which occupied so much of the colony's attention. In fact it was these discussions which brought about her downfall, The heart of the Puritan religion was n belief that God's Word was in the Scriptures, The cardinal sin againgt such a religion was the belief that God's inspiration could be trans mitted directly to human beings. So when there arose in the colony a fac- tion, called “Antinomians” (people not living by the letter of the law of God, and believing that God revealed his jaws directly to them), when this fac- tion grew under the leadership of Anne Hutchinson, when meetings were held In her home to discuss and crit- jeize the sermons of the Puritan min- isters and when they asserted that most of the Boston ministers were un- der a “covenant of works” and were trying to be saved by religious ob- servances, it was only a matter of time until Anne should find herself In trouble. The climax came In 1637. Winthrop and the other Puritan leaders had fled from England to escape religious in- tolerance, but, as so often happens, those who suffer from intolerance are the first to become intolerant. So they put Anne on trial for heresy, a trial that has been compared to that of Joan of Are at Rouen. Under the cross-questioning and testimony brought against her, she proved her gelf more than a match for her prose- cutors, But just at the moment when it seemed that she had defeated her accusers, she burst forth into a long speech describing God's revelations to her. So she convicted herself. She was banished from the colony and went to Rhode Island to make her home, Left a widow in 1642, she set forth with her children again in search of a new home. First she settled on Long Island and then in what is now West. chester county, N, ¥. Here her tur- bulent career came to a tragic end. She arrived In the Dutch colony at a time when the Indians, infuriated by little £ 141 inhabit rude cabins and houses, {otton, Statue, ention periodic Anne t« events of th In Seq inson : at the fields morning ing of wi stood ded softly friendly Indian house » Were at every Willi cis were at the children about the field Indians nodded farewell, awny. In the afternoon they came back, only this time there were more of them, and there were strange faces among them; Anne Hutchin- son wondered why they had put on so much demonic paint. Per- haps they were off on some strange Indian ceremony, for they seemed excited. The dogs began to bark at the strange apparition, and the Mohegans asked to have them tied up, for they were afraid they would bite. The dogs were tied up. Uncas' men whipped out their tomahawks. Anne Hutchinson saw four demons rush at her sons. Bread of adversity, water of af. fliction—she had lived out that promise, but God never warned her of this horror. William Col ling and Francis were struck down, their skulls crushed and bleeding. Anne Colling fell beside her hus- band. Mrs. Hutchinson caught Susanna to her breast to shut out the sight from the screaming child, Katherine was half over a fence, but a Mohegan caught her by the hair and dragged her back to a stump. Anne Hutchinson henrd the sickening blow ; she saw Mary and little William rush sob- bing to her, as if she could save them. Then two Indians were upon her, and the child was torn from her breast. A tomahawk fell, Anne Hutchinson was dead. And for a final epitaph of her “American Jezebel,” Helen Augur writes: Boston has finally made up its quarrel with the woman it cast out as “unsavoury salt.” Her mon. ument stands before the Massa chusetts statehouse, with a fer. vent inscription to this “Courage ous Exponent of Civil Liberty and Religious Toleration.” There she stands, with a Bible In her hand, and a child snuggled against her, New England's heroine. For civil liberty and religious toleration, the principles for which she suf. fered exile and death, are written into the Constitution of the United States, am Collins and Fran field, and little tasks and garden, The and went work in the were at ———_-—_ (€), 1930, Western Newspaper Union.) 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