John Underhill is banished for following the teachings of Anne Hutchinson.

(Sept.) A few days after the General Court banishes Capt. Underhill, he is also charged with “incontinency with a neighbor’s wife.” John Winthrop writes in his journal, “The matter was that the woman being young and beautiful, and withal of a jovial spirit and behavior, he did daily frequent her house and was divers times found there alone with her, the door being locked on the inside. He confessed it was ill, because it had an appearance of evil in it; but his excuse was that the woman was in great trouble of mind and sore temptations, and that he resorted to her to comfort her; and that when the door was found locked upon them, there in private prayer together. But this practice was clearly condemned also by the elders . . .”