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Mrs. Hutchinson and her friends after their conviction 
of heresy by a tribunal sitting in what is now Cam- 
bridge. Some of these heretics led by John Wheel- 
wright went northward to the Piscataqua country. 
At the mouth of that romantic stream the Episcopal 
followers of Mason and Gorges had lately founded the 
town of Portsmouth, and Wheelwright’s people, in 
settling Exeter and Hampton, found these Episco- 
palians much pleasanter neighbours than they had left 
in Boston. As for Mrs. Hutchinson and her remain- 
ing friends, they found new homes upon Rhode Island. 
A few years later that eccentric agitator, Samuel 
Gorton, whom neither Plymouth nor even Providence 
nor Rhode Island could endure, bought land for him- 
self on the western shore of Narragansett Bay and 
made the beginnings of Warwick. 
From these examples we see that the principal cause 
of the scattering of New England settlers in communi- 
ties somewhat remote from each other was inability to 
agree on sundry questions pertaining to religion. It 
should be observed in passing that their differences of 
opinion seldom related to points of doctrine, but almost 
always to points of church government or religious 
discipline. For the most part they were questions on 
the borderland between theology and politics. Be- 
tween the settlements here mentioned the differences 
were strongly marked. While Winthrop’s followers 
insisted upon the union of Church and State, those of 
Roger Williams insisted upon their complete separa- 
tion. The divergences of the New Hampshire people 
and those of the Newport colony had somewhat more 
of a doctrinal complexion, being implicated with sun- 
dry speculations as to salvation by grace and salvation 
