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Having been thrown out of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1637, the woman who started the settlement of Portsmouth, Rhode

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Answer: Anne Hutchinson was thrown out of the colony due to how her ideas differed from the puritans. She and many others founded Rhode Island for religious tolerance. The colony was very profitable and flourished.

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