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The Death of Anne Hutchinson
In 1638 Anne Hutchinson experienced a pregnancy loss of her own and people saw this fetus as monstrous as well. The Dyer's spent the next several years living in Rhode Island where William helped found the city of Portsmouth. They ultimately moved again when it seemed like the colony in Massachusetts was going to amex the land that they had been living on. And while they were living there, director of New Netherland, William Keefe started trying to drive the indigenous nations of the Wappinger Confederacy out of the area. In retaliation, members of the Sea-Wanoi nation attacked colonial settlements, including the one where the Hutchinson's were living.Anne Hutchinson, six of her children and nine