Anne Hutchinson is again banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

The order results from a trial by church officials at the First Church in Boston. During the trial, which began on March 15, 1638, Hutchinson’s one-time mentor Rev. John Cotton, testified against her. After the verdict is issued, Hutchinson declares, “The Lord judges not as man judges. Better to be cast out of the church than to deny Christ.” She leaves the church, hand in hand with her friend Mary Dyer, Hutchinson and her family move to Aquidneck Island in Rhode Island in April 1638. The Massachusetts legislature revokes Hutchinson’s banishment in 1945, and Gov. Michael Dukakis pardons her in 1987.