“Damn hypocrite, that Endecott,” she muttered. “Not a kind bone in his body. Banished a pregnant woman to the wilds.” Thomas knew she meant the poor Anne Hutchinson. Though they had arrived after her banishment, they had heard stories about her many times. A religiously zealous and outspoken midwife, Hutchinson had been deemed a threat to the order of things in Massachusetts Bay. The men in power could not abide by a woman speaking her mind and gaining the admiration of others. And so she had been charged with blasphemy and banished to the wilds.
