Colonial Massachusetts

Anne Hutchinson, John Wheelwright
Around 1635 Hutchinson began holding private religious meetings in her home, in which she supported a Covenant of Grace over a Covenant of Works, being taught by Puritan clergy at the time.

The authorities, and especially Governor John Winthrop and Reverend Thomas Shepard, viewed these activities as a threat, tending toward a usurpation of their authority.
The two heretics were summoned before the General Court of 2 November 1637 and, after much wrangling, Wheelwright, and then Hutchinson, were banished.

The General Court continued to meet throughout most of the month of November. On the 15th a number of men who had signed a petition in support of Wheelwright were disfranchised (that is, were stripped of their freemanship).

Anne Hutchinson was excommunicated by the Boston church and went with many of her followers to the northern end of Aquidneck Island (location of Newport, RI today) in Narragansett Bay and founded the town of Portsmouth.
Samuel Wilbore, was one of those who went with her.

Wheelwright led a group of his supporters north to found the town of Exeter (now New Hampshire).

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Ann Hutchinson and John Wheelwright at Wikipedia