Anne Hutchinson was born in England but moved to Boston in 1634 with her husband who with him 15 children. Due to her knowledge she became midwife giving her a well-respected position in Boston. She began with inviting a few women over to discuss the minister John Cotton's sermons but it soon grew to her directly challenging the Puritan ministers, magistrates, and preachers on how God's word should be interpreted and who had the right to belong to the Church. Her most notable divergence from traditional Puritan beliefs was that everyone had a right to the Church and it was the soul itself and not the actions which determined the soul's destination in the afterlife. This rejection soon became known as the Antinomian Controversy where she defied
