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Cameron, Jean. "John Cotton's Role in the Trials of Anne Hutchinson," University of Minnesota, October 1991. Advisor: Roland Delattre (16,11,22)
In 1637-8 in Boston, Massachusetts, Anne Hutchinson was convicted at trials for sedition and heresy. Scholars have assumed she was guilty—by Puritan standards. John Cotton, her pastor, believed to hold Hutchinson’s possibly heretical theology, disavowed it under pressure. At Hutchinson’s civil trial, he did not protest when she was convicted. At the church trial, Cotton questioned her aggressively, and insisted upon excommunication. This study investigates the trials, and her guilt, focusing on the religious questions involved. It finds that Hutchinson was not guilty, by Puritan criteria, and that it was Cotton’s actions that guaranteed her conviction.
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