Anne Hutchinson Memorial

Anne Hutchinson was banished from Boston in the first decade of settlement because her religious views were different from those of the ruling ministers. She believed that both men and women could receive grace only from God and accused the ministers of preaching that “good works” signified holiness. She attracted women to prayer meetings she held in her home in part because her beliefs put women’s souls on an equal footing with men’s souls. She was banished in 1638 for heresy and killed in New York in 1643 by Siwanoy Native Americans. This statue was sculpted by Cyrus E. Dallin and depicts Hutchinson and her daughter Susanna.