Mrs.
Hutchinson was a brilliant Puritan woman who had come to Boston from England to enjoy the ministry of John Cotton, one of the Boston ministers.

She soon began to find fault with the other ministers of the colony.

Naturally, they did not like this.

Their friends were more numerous than were Mrs.Hutchinson's friends, and the latter had to leave Massachusetts.

They settled on the island of Rhode Island (1637).
[Sidenote: The Connecticut colonists.] [Sidenote: Founding of Connecticut, 1635-36.