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London, England,
28, 35,
36–37, 141–42; Anne Hutchinson in, xix, 34–38, 141–43, 267–68; Bankside, 36; Bridge, 36; bubonic plague in, 37, 142, 149, 150; Cheapside, 141; Church of St. Pancras, Soper Lane, 20; Francis Marbury in, 34–38, 268; Gunpowder Plot, 37; Great Fire of (1666), 23, 35; Hyde Park, 37; Marshalsea Prison, 26, 268; north side of Thames,
35;
population, seventeenth century, 37; St. Margaret’s church, 37; St. Martin’s in the Vintry, 34,
35,
36, 141, 142, 143; St. Mary Woolnoth’s church, 143–44; St. Paul’s Cathedral, 19, 22–23, 34, 268; St. Thomas à Becket, 36; south side of Thames, 26, 142; Thames River,
35,
36; Tower of, 31, 36

Luke 19:10, 175

Luther, Martin, 20, 25, 42, 52, 66

Lynn, Massachusetts, 72

Mahican Indians, 232, 233

malaria (tertian ague), 96

Marbury, Agnes Lenton, 20

Marbury, Bridget Dryden (mother), 31, 143, 250

Marbury, Francis (father), 19–38; in Alford, 27, 29–33, 140, 269; birth and early years, 20; challenges to Anglican church, 19–34, 192; charge of heresy, 19, 26, 57, 128; children of, 31, 32, 33; death, 37, 143; first assignment, Northampton, 21–22; First Church of Christ, 72; house arrest, 19, 33; imprisonment, 26–27, 268; as “impudent Puritan,” 33, 191; influence on daughter Anne, 37–38, 57, 190, 204; in London, 34–38, 141–43,
267–68; marriages, 30–31; as schoolmaster, 30, 148; transcription of trial by, 19; trial, 19, 22–26; will, 143

Marbury, John (brother), 152

Marbury, William, 20

Marprelate Tracts, 32–33

Marshall, Thomas, 131, 132

Mary, Queen of England (Bloody Mary), 20, 26

Maryland: colony, charter, 235; St. Mary’s City, 259–60

Mason, John, 63, 110

Massachusett Indians, 70

Massachusetts Bay Colony: aggression by French, Dutch, and Indians against, 6, 10, 104; alien exclusion law, 8, 110; Anne Hutchinson’s descendants in, 241–43; arms carried in, 132; arrival of colonial ministers, 97; banishments, 6–7, 11, 119, 216; books available in, 42–43; Boston Tea Party, 241; Cambridge Synod, 57, 63, 110, 118, 128, 163, 179; charter, 5, 17, 71, 104, 153, 162, 220; charter voided, 255; Christmas holiday, 161; church membership, women, 92; climate, 3–4, 161–62; court system absent, 17; culture, 156–57; deputy governor of, 50, 63, 109–10; diet and housewares, 148–49, 156; dissension in, 103–13, 125, 162; distinction between public and private acts, 58–59; English place names, 72; excommunication, 171; excommunication of Anne Hutchinson, and transcript as typical of religious discussion, 172–92; failed Puritan rule, 255–56; farming and lifestyle, 155–56; Fast Days, 10–11, 161, 169; founding of, first settlers, 71–72, 74; freeman’s oath, 157; geography and topography, 70, 131, 158; governors of, 5–6, 8, 11, 63, 103–10; Great and General Court and legal system of colony, 3, 10, 11, 17, 74–75, 104, 225; Henry Vane arrives in, 103; Hutchinson supporters removed from power, 132–33, 161; King Philip’s War, 240; King’s Chapel founded, 256; land grants in, 155, 156, 161, 163, 228; Native Americans in, 70–71, 77–78 (
see also
Pequot War); Pequot War, 6, 7, 55–56, 63, 77–78, 110; prominent men of, 8, 101–2, 127, 156; repression in, and settlers leaving, 163; settlers early retiring, early rising, 68; size and population, 153–54; trials of Anne Hutchinson, xvii, 1–18, 39–49, 50–69, 75–81, 111–13, 174–203; voting age, 15, 157; voting franchise, 16–17; wage and price controls, 8; women supporters of Hutchinson punished, 216

Massachusetts Bay Company, 71, 72, 96

Mather, Cotton, 71, 89

Mather, Richard, 200, 204

Matthew: 18:15, 174; 18:15–17, 204–5

May, Samuel Joseph, xix, xx

Mayflower,
42

“Maypole of Merry Mount, The” (Hawthorne), 77

McLoughlin, William, 211–12

Measure for Measure
(Shakespeare), 36

Medford, Massachusetts, 72, 155

Mercurius Americanus
(Wheelwright), 248

Merrimack River, 209

Middletown, Rhode Island, 163

midwifery, 169, 206

Milton, John, 254

Morgan, Edmund, 74, 117, 136–37, 138, 211

Morison, Samuel Eliot, 134

“mortalism,” 172, 175, 189

“Mrs. Hutchinson” (Hawthorne), 5, 77, 130–31, 140, 219, 234, 238

Mulcaster, Richard, 32

Mystic River, 71

Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, 210, 224

Narragansett Indians, 78, 166, 233; King Philip’s War, 240; murder of Miantonomo by Massachusetts General Court, 234; purchase of Rhode Island from sachems, 166; purchase by Roger Williams of Providence Plantation, 210

Native Americans: Anne Hutchinson’s attitude toward and opposition to war, 6, 63, 110, 158, 233; colonialist antipathy toward, 70, 104; King Philip’s War, 240; in Massachusetts Bay Colony, 70–71; in New Amsterdam, 232–33; Pequot Museum, 264; Pequot War, 6, 7, 77–78, 110, 264; Roger Williams’s opposition to war against, 6; Siwanoy raid and murder of Anne and children, xx, 236–37; smallpox and decimation of, 71, 131; as threats to Massachusetts Colony, 6, 10; wars with colonialists, 236, 240

Nauset Indians, 70

Naylor, Katherine Wheelwright Nanny, 148–49, 249

Neponset Indians, 70

New England,
xxii;
Bible available in, 42; books available in, 42–43; “great migration” to, 220; name of, 5.
See also
Massachusetts Bay Colony

New Haven, Connecticut: Cotton move to, 162; Davenport, John, and, 162, 178; Quinnipiac settlement, 162

Newport, Rhode Island, 163, 223, 228, 234

New York (New Amsterdam, Dutch New Netherlands),
xxii;
Anne Hutchinson in, xix, xx, 229–30, 233–36, 264; Bronx, 231; Indian raid and murder of Anne Hutchinson and family, 236–37; Indian troubles, 232–33; Pelham Bay, 231, 232, 236, 264,
266;
policy of tolerance, 232; Split Rock, 231, 236, 237, 264–65

Nichlaes, Hendrik, 125

Norton, Mary Beth, 147

Nowell, Increase, 118

Oldham, John, 77

Oliver, Anne, 170

Oliver, John, 111, 221–22

Oliver, Thomas, 170–71, 183–84, 202

“opinionists,” 52, 62

Overton, Joseph, 29, 144

Oxford University, England, 20

Pagels, Elaine, 235

Paine, Thomas, 270

Parable of the Ten Virgins, The
(Shepard), 66

Paul, St.: Epistles and doctrine of grace, 52; letter to Titus, 24–25, 39, 48; on women, 39, 40, 48

Pawtucket, Rhode Island, 210

Pawtucket Indians, 70, 71

Pequot Indians, 77, 78

Pequot Museum, Mystic, Connecticut, 264

Pequot War, 6, 7, 8, 55–56, 77–78, 110, 264; Anne Hutchinson opposition and impact on, 63, 110

Perkins, William, 60, 90

2 Peter 4:24, 196

Peter, Hugh, 2, 10, 61, 62, 66–67, 79, 80, 102, 103–4, 112, 128, 134, 140, 159–60, 180, 198, 200, 216, 250

Philip, King of Spain, 27

Phillips, George, 61

plague (Black Death): Alford, xix, 15, 149–50; Anne Hutchinson’s children die in, 15, 150; in London (Great Plague of, 1665), 37, 142, 149; 1630 epidemic, England, xix; stone, xix, 150

Plymouth Plantation, 5, 77, 153

Portsmouth, Rhode Island, 163, 167, 209, 213,
214,
234; Anne Hutchinson Memorial Park, 215; church lacking, 222, 224; Founders’ Brook Park, 215, 263; growth, 222; Hutchinson house and archeological dig at site, 213, 215, 263–64; Hutchinson and supporters, land allotment, 213,
214,
215, 222–23; Hutchinsons in, 228; life for first settlers of, 215; population, 224; Public Library, 213, 215, 264; rebellion against Coddington in, 223

Portsmouth Compact, 165–66

Presbyterians, 247, 254

Preston, John, 83

prophecy, 47, 53–55, 64–65

Prophetic Woman
(Lang), xix Providence Plantation, xvi, 6–7, 11, 164, 166, 210–11, 212, 222, 234

Puritanism: anti-Papist views, 4–5, 10, 21, 54, 82; aim of, 134–35; apparel and dress code, 1, 4, 7, 17, 103; banning of women from religious office or active participation, 44–45; Bible, importance of, 43, 54; cessation of emigration and Cromwell, 220; chair, for use of the man, 2, 47; Christmas holiday, 161; church calendar, 21; church ornamentation, 21, 62, 84, 93; clergy, role of, 25, 53, 54; colonial ministers, banned from public office, 3; compulsory church attendance and, 17; conversion as emotional not intellectual, 59–60, 82–83, 101; covenant of grace (vs. covenant of works), 51–60, 99, 105–6, 107–8, 109, 112, 127–28; “conventicles,” 45, 87; dispute with Anglicans, issues, 20–21; doctrine of the Elect, 51, 99, 100, 157 (
see also
salvation); education of boys, 20; English, 20; among English gentry, 20; English persecution of, 3, 22, 34; excommunication process, 171; flight from England and emigration, 95, 27,
95, 102, 152–53; freedoms curtailed by, 17; Geneva Bible and, 42; identification with Jews, as God’s Chosen People, 9–10, 211; Judgment Day awaited, 44; life as continuous act of worship 43; moral rigidity, xvii, 17; name origins, 20; religious questions pondered by, 43–44; sacraments, 21; salvation, as justification, 51, 52, 100, 105, 106, 216 (
see also
salvation); sanctification (“true saint” aspiration), 51–52, 56, 100, 105, 106, 216; sermons and preaching, importance of, 21, 84; services, 21, 62; services, seating in, 46; services, segregation of women in, 44–45, 63, 185; sexual expression and sexual crimes, 188–89; Tattershall Castle meeting, 95; theater, disapproval of, 142; Thursday lectures given, 2; wealth, social status, and religious influence, 46; women and, 44–46

Puritan Dilemma, The
(Morgan), 137

Quakers (Society of Friends), 196, 224–25, 240, 252–54; execution of, 253–54

Quincy, Massachusetts, 155, 208, 210, 262

Reformation, 20, 32, 51, 54, 82

religion.
See
Anglican Church; Bible; grace; Puritanism; Roman Catholic Church; salvation Religious Synod, Cambridge, 57, 63, 110, 118, 128, 163, 179, 243

Renaissance, 32

revelation, 54–54, 65, 68–69, 106, 117–26, 152, 173

Revelation, Book of, 44; 22:15, 202

Revere (Running Marsh), Massachusetts, 161

Rhode Island: agreement among first settlers, 164; Anne Hutchinson and, xv, xvi, 212–29; Anne Hutchinson’s descendants in, 243; chartering of, 234–35; Christian sects settling in, 224–25; church, lack of formal, and services, 222; civil troubles, 222–23, 234; earthquake, 215; governor and asst. governor, Will Hutchinson, 223–24; guarantee of freedom of conscience and religion in, 166, 235; Hutchinson house (
see
Portsmouth, Rhode Island); Hutchinson meetings and preaching, 222; Hutchinson supporters and Aquidneck Island, 163–67, 168, 213,
214,
215, 224; Hutchinsons in, 228, 233, 234; John Sanford and, 234; journey of Anne Hutchinson to, 208–10; land allotted among Hutchinson and followers, 213,
214,
222–23; Portsmouth Compact, 165–66; purchase from Narragansett Indians, 166; Providence Plantation, xvi, 6–7, 11, 164, 166, 210–11, 212, 234–35; threats from Massachusetts, 223–24, 228; Winthrop’s men, harassment by, 220–22.
See also
Portsmouth, Rhode Island;
specific towns

Rigsby, England, 144, 147, 270

Rogerenes, 225

Rogers, Richard, 62

Roman Catholicism (papism): Anglican Church and, 4; as Antichrist, 10, 21, 115; as Great Whore of Babylon, 10, 82; Puritans’ antagonism toward, 4–5; role of clergy, 25; salvation and Covenant of Works, 51–53, 100

Roosevelt, Eleanor, xvi, 243

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 243

Roxbury, Massachusetts, 72, 135, 136; Anne Hutchinson in, 167–58, 159–61, 168; modern tour of, 261

Sagamore Indians, 209

Saint Pancras, Middlesex, England, 37

Salem, Massachusetts, 2; excommunication of Hutchinson supporters, 216; harbor, 71; Roger Williams and, 6–7, 210, 212; witch trials, xx, 16, 206.
See also
Peter, Hugh

salvation, xvi, xxi, 43–44; Arminianism and attaining by free will, 5, 90–91; Calvinism and, 54; covenant of grace (vs. covenant of works), 51–60, 64, 66, 99, 105–6, 107–8, 109, 112, 127–28; divine grace and, 5, 43–44, 54, 66; God’s elect and, xxi, 17, 51, 99, 100, 105, 157; Holy Spirit, relationship with and, 100, 105, 106; John Cotton on, 59–60, 86–87, 105, 106, 107–8; as “justification,” 51, 105, 106; Puritan-Hutchinson controversy over, 51–60, 66, 99–113

2 Samuel 7:10, 96

Sanderson, Robert, 93

Sanford, Bridget Hutchinson (daughter), 15, 146, 159, 160, 209, 228, 232, 236, 239

Sanford, Eliphal (grandson), 160, 209

Sanford, Endcome (grandson), 228

Sanford, John (son-in-law), 160–61, 164, 209, 213, 215, 232, 239, 243

Sanford, Peleg (grandson), 228, 243

Sanford, Restcome (grandson), 233

Savage, Dyonisia (granddaughter), 240

Savage, Ephraim (grandson), 240

Savage, Faith Hutchinson (daughter), 15, 55, 146, 164, 177, 228, 232, 235, 239

Savage, Habijah (grandson), 228, 240