Weymouth New England Genealogy

c.1591–1643, religious leader in New England, b. Anne Marbury inLincolnshire, England. She emigrated (1634) with her husband andfamily to Massachusetts Bay, where her brilliant mind and herkindness won admiration and a following. The informaldiscussions at her home gave scope to Puritan intellects, buther espousal of the covenant of grace as opposed to the covenantof works (i.e., she tended to believe that faith alone wasnecessary to salvation) caused John Cotton, John Winthrop, andother former friends to view her as an antinomian heretic. Shedefied them, was tried by the General Court, and was sentenced(1637) to banishment for “traducing the ministers.” Several ofher followers—including William Coddington, John Wheelwright,John Underhill, and John Clarke—also left Massachusetts Bay.After helping Coddington to found the present Portsmouth, R.I.,she quarreled with him and, with Samuel Gorton, ousted him in1639. After Coddington’s return to power, she moved (1642) toLong Island and then to what is now Pelham Bay Park in New YorkCity. There she and all the other members of her family but onewere killed by Native Americans.