Anne Hutchinson was an English-born preacher and theologian who became a central figure in the Antinomian Controversy within the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Born in Alford, Lincolnshire, she received an advanced education for a woman of her era due to her father's clerical background. After emigrating to New England to follow the minister John Cotton, she hosted influential theological discussions that challenged the established Puritan clergy. Her views regarding the covenant of grace led to her trial, conviction, and eventual banishment from the colony in 1637.