Anne Hutchinson made the journey to the New World to break away from the Church of England. Anne wanted to feel free to express her increasingly Puritan views.
Upon expressing these views, the government of Massachusetts believed that Anne was a great threat to the social and political order of Massachusetts Bay.
Anne Hutchinson had claimed that a holy life was no sure sign of salvation and that the truly saved need not bother to obey the law of either God or man (pg. 47 in The American Pageant by Bailey, Kennedy, and Cohen). Anne was basically telling the people that if they were already chosen by God to go to heaven, it did not matter whether they attended church be