This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.
In 1639, pregnant for the sixteenth time, Anne Hutchinson delivered what her contemporaries described as a mass of shapeless tissue rather than a child, almost certainly a hydatidiform mole in modern medical terms, a documented obstetric event distinct from the theological trial and banishment her first article covers. Governor John Winthrop, already the man who had presided over her 1637 conviction, learned of the miscarriage and wrote to her physician, John Clarke, pressing for details rather than offering sympathy, a documented correspondence distinct from the antinomian controversy itself.
Winthrop recorded the result in his journal in explicitly providential language, describing "monstrous births" of no single or perfect shape and reading the miscarriage as God testifying his displeasure against Hutchinson's opinions as plainly, in Winthrop's own words, as if he had pointed with his finger, a documented theological interpretation distinct from the legal reasoning that had convicted her two years earlier. Puritan ministers repeated the story from the pulpit as evidence that Hutchinson's doctrine of free grace bred monstrous consequences, spiritual and literal alike, and the same providential reading was applied soon after to a stillbirth suffered by her follower Mary Dyer, tying the two women's bodies together in a single piece of anti-antinomian propaganda.
That the same colony which had already banished Hutchinson for a doctrinal claim went on to publicize the private details of her miscarriage as further proof of that same claim's danger, marks the 1639 monstrous birth as a documented case where Hutchinson's body, not only her preaching, was made to carry her opponents' argument against her, years after the courtroom had already ruled.