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Roger Williams and Ann Hutchinson were outstanding individuals who created the
fundamental ideas of freedom of religion in an early colonial society of New England and
opposed the traditional understanding of the local Puritan authorities.
Roger Williams, a Puritan minister, was born in London in 1603. He came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1631. He possessed nonconformist opinions that questioned the Puritan government, advocating for the introduction of the separation of church and state and keeping the Native Americans safeguarded from violation
(Fisher, 2021)
. Ann Hutchinson was born in England in 1591. She was one of the most famous women in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and a critical preacher under whose teachings the Puritan clergy split had to. In this fashion, she gathered at her home every week, attributing the priests' preaching as her target and championing her particular meaning of scripture.
How Roger Williams and Ann Hutchinson Differed with Mainstream Puritan Beliefs
Even though Williams and Hutchinson did not share the orthodox beliefs of the Puritans in the sense that they promoted the notion that people matter and disagreed with the elders' right to criticize what others think, they caused some disturbance
(Partridge, 2020)
. The Puritans and the People of God tried constructing a community guided by strict obedience to their religious concepts. Still, at the same time, Williams and Hutchinson argued for a more tolerant and all-
inclusive attitude regarding religious heterogeneity.
Roger Williams pioneered the division of church and state and religious freedom and offered some of the most important ideas in history. He was the founder of the colony of Rhode Island, which became a place where the oppressed by their religious beliefs sought shelter, and he came up with the principle of the separation of church and state in the contributing charter
