Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-04

and her share ill the development of the colonies was indeed powerful one. It has been said, and very aptly, that she was cursed with a natural
 gift of> leadership in an age that had
 no place for such women" and her
 greatest work was to make for women
 that place which was lacking. She
 is called the 'nasterpiece of woman's
 wit in view of the fact that her ar
 guTnents up1aoiding her religious doe
 trines So cleverly eluded the imagis-
 trates at,sher trial. Anne Hutchinson
 was the first American club woman.
 It was at the meetings +of the club Swhieh she had organized in Boston.
 that she taught her feli0w-women
 from the very strength of her own personality, not only her religious be- liefs, for which intolerant Boston later,
 ex-cominunicated and ostracized her, but also those germs and principles of woman's rights and position, which have grown and scattered so remark ably. True, she suffered bitterly for | beliefs, but persecution has always lstrengthe causes and her sufferings i has steadily developed. Anne Hutchin- son was simply ahead of her day. Had she lived fifty years later, she would ! hay held an enviable place of honor.
 The American woman of today owes more tes unfortunate, indiscreet Anne Hutchinson than to any other colonial woman, as far as freedom of thought
 and speech is concerned.
 1 Among these colonial danes are many charming characters who have too often been left untreated. The
 development of the social, literary and artistic life of the colonies should be sa1 AAsw saai life. Political and social changes SC hand in hand, and the one must be
 known to fully understand and appre- fciate the other. One of the quaintesi and most amusing characters in the literary world of those days wa:
 Madam Sarah Knight, the colonia | traveller. In her ."JouFnal' she has lef us, a vivid accoufitNof her famous jour ney from Boston to New York and O.
 the perils she encountered. Amons
 the poetesses of the period, gentl' Anne Bradstreet, "the Tenth Muse,
 and Mercy Warren were well knowl in every colonial home. Abigail Adam holds an enviable reputation as let ter writer. and Hannah Adams a littl later, wrote quaint history of NeF England.
 :. The, period preceding the Revolution
 and during the struggle for indepen
 dence Was-sas the Hast years of tn
 Roman republic--a period of grea
 names. For at that time the develop ment of the colonies as such wa reaching it's culn1ination, and man an [ woman alike grew ardent with the de termination to preserve that for. whic 7 their fathers and grandfathers for owe $ a century and half had struggled i Until the end of the separate colonie . and the beginning of the union ther , grew up a line of heroes and heroine i, never surpAssedt We Know with wha : readiness the women supported th s policy of resistance and such meas ! ures as were taken to effect it. Anon . the heroines of the war one finds sue a immortal names as Molly Pitche . Lydia Darrat, the clever little caves ' dropper, Nancy Hart, and most curior 7, fof all, Deborah Sampson, who enliste f and fought disguised as man. Mir Y Steele also, who gave the disheartene
 General Greene her two bags of si . Ever, stands as an example of the won . en who sacrificed everything to U e American cause--inspiring exampl, = for the woman of today who owes : much to them.
 . Thus we see each pluclsy woman. 5. those days gone by, playing her pal y whether great or small, with all u . might she possessed. Surely the gIol Il and strength of America today shou 't be attributed as, much to our for i' mothers as to our forefathers. ''tl '- choice grains sent forth into Il y wilderness" who f1eurished by. u ' grace of God.