Some of the leaders of the Hutchinsonian…
March 1638 CE
Some of the leaders of the Hutchinsonian movement during Anne Hutchinson’s imprisonment have prepared to leave the colony and settle elsewhere.
Nineteen men, including William Hutchinson and John Clarke, a medical doctor and Baptist minister, meet on March 7, 1638, at the home of the wealthy Boston merchant William Coddington.
The men form themselves into a "Bodie Politick" and elect Coddington their judge.
They had initially planned to move to Long Island or present New Jersey, but Roger Williams has persuaded them to settle in the area of Rhode Island, near Williams' Providence Plantations settlement.
Coddington purchases Aquidneck island from the natives and the settlement of Pocasset (now Portsmouth) is founded.
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