In the year of 1634 Anne and her family sailed through the ocean from England to the Massachusetts colony, on the boat named Griffin, in high hopes of religious freedom. The family hoped that the Puritans would be able to help them with their high hopes for freedoms. After Anne and her family arrived in Massachusetts Anne joined a Puritan congregation with John Cotton. John was a minister and a theologian of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. When she was at the congregation with him Anne’s different ideas soon caused problems and many different arguments. Although many people didn’t believe in what she believed in she was very passionate and determined to speak about what she believed in. The Puritans didn’t agree with what she believed in because
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In the club the girls talked about, reviewed, and read the Scriptures and sermons. At the club the people could express their own views, but it was only really Anne who pitched in her ideas the others usually kept to themselves. Although to the “pure” Puritans her club meetings were viewed as a dissenter and traitor to their beliefs. The Puritans also were not so keen to her because they viewed the women as inferior being who would lead the men to their hell if they were to speak or express their ideas and opinion. Anne's club meetings were seen by the Puritans as a treat because it threatened the men's power and the key ideas of the Puritan way of living. In the year of 1637 John Winthrop an English Puritan lawyer found a way to and did put her under custody at the House of Roxbury (still in Massachusetts). At court she was accused of violating their fifth amendment. The fifth amendment was to honor the mother and father, because they though that her meetings were causing women to not do their duties at their houses and taking care of their families. Later at the Civil Court her charge of heresy was put forward thus for making her punishment banishment making it so that she could not ever come to
In the club the girls talked about, reviewed, and read the Scriptures and sermons. At the club the people could express their own views, but it was only really Anne who pitched in her ideas the others usually kept to themselves. Although to the “pure” Puritans her club meetings were viewed as a dissenter and traitor to their beliefs. The Puritans also were not so keen to her because they viewed the women as inferior being who would lead the men to their hell if they were to speak or express their ideas and opinion. Anne's club meetings were seen by the Puritans as a treat because it threatened the men's power and the key ideas of the Puritan way of living. In the year of 1637 John Winthrop an English Puritan lawyer found a way to and did put her under custody at the House of Roxbury (still in Massachusetts). At court she was accused of violating their fifth amendment. The fifth amendment was to honor the mother and father, because they though that her meetings were causing women to not do their duties at their houses and taking care of their families. Later at the Civil Court her charge of heresy was put forward thus for making her punishment banishment making it so that she could not ever come to