[258] Diary, p. 82.

[259] Diary, Vol.  I, p. 354.

[260] Diary, Vol.  I, p. 424.

[261] Weeden:  Economic, & Social History of N. Eng., Vol.  I, p. 299.

[262a], [262b] Vol.  II, p. 371.

[263] Diary, Vol.  II, p. 371.

[264] Vol.  II, p. 400.

[265] Vol.  II, p. 405.

[266] Vol.  II, p. 406.

[267] Diary, Vol.  III, p. 31.

[268] Diary, Vol.  III, p. 40.

[269] Diary, Vol.  III, p. 108.

[270] Diary, Vol.  III, p. 137.

[271] Diary, Vol.  III, p. 173.

[272] Writings, Vol.  I, p. 310.

[273] Goodwin:  Dolly Madison, p. 33.

[274] Smyth:  Franklin, Vol.  I, p. 413.

[275] Memoirs of an American Lady, p. 53.

[276] Humphreys:  Catherine Schuyler, p. 185.

[277] Catherine Schuyler, p. 204.

[278] History of New England, Vol.  I, p. 73.

[279] History of New England, Vol.  II, p. 190.

[280] Winthrop:  History of New England, Vol.  II, p. 61.

[281] Diary, Vol.  II, p. 407.

[282] Diary, Vol.  I, p. 379.

[283] Diary, Vol.  II, p. 288.

[284] Diary, Vol.  I, p. 349.

[285] Diary, Vol.  I, p, 87.

[286] P. 170.

[287] History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol.  II, p. 170.

[288] Ibid., p. 172.

[289] Ibid., p. 187.

[290] Ibid., p. 196.

[291] Vol.  I, p. 111.

[292] Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century, Vol.  I. p. 34.

[293] History of New England, Vol.  II, p. 148.

[294a], [294b] Howard:  Matrimonial Inst., Vol.  II, p. 161.

[295] Ibid.

[296] Bruce:  Institutional History, Vol.  I, p. 51.

CHAPTER VII

COLONIAL WOMAN AND THE INITIATIVE

I.  Religious Initiative

Throughout our entire study of colonial woman we have seen many bits of record that hint or even plainly prove that the feminine nature was no more willing in the old days constantly to play second fiddle than in our own day.  Anne Hutchinson and her kind had brains, knew it, and were disposed to use their intellect.  Perceiving injustice in the prevailing order of affairs, such women protested against it, and, when forced to do so, undertook those tasks and battles which are popularly supposed to be outside woman’s sphere.  Of Anne Hutchinson it has been truthfully said:  “The Massachusetts records say that Mrs. Anne Hutchinson was banished on account of her revelations and excommunicated for a lie.  They do not say that she was too brilliant, too ambitious, and too progressive for the ministers and magistrates of the colony, ...  And while it is only fair to the rulers of the colony to admit that any element of disturbance or sedition, at that time, was a menace to the welfare of the colony, and that ... her voluble tongue was a dangerous one, it is certain that the ministers were jealous of her power and feared her leadership."[297]