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No, she was not the founder of Rhode Island, but lived in Rhode Island from 1638, after she was banished from Massachusetts, until her husband died. Then she moved into the wilderness of Long Island, where she hoped to work among the Native Americans.

In 1643, the Indians of southern New England and New York rose up in an effort to stop further European settlement on their lands. Anne Hutchinson was killed. A victim of the times and the society in which she lived.

Roger Williams is the only one considered the founder of Rhode Island. For while Anne Hutchinson was still in Massachusetts, Roger Williams established the first permanent settlement in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1636.

Anne Hutchinson would not go to Rhode Island until two years later, after the colony had been officially founded by Roger Williams.

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she founded Town of Portsmouth in Rhode island

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Anne Hutchinson was important because she fought for religious freedom

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No, she did not found Rhode Island. She founded Providence, a city in Rhode Island. Roger Williams founded Rhode Island.

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