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The unconquerable Mrs. Hutchinson was residing at Pocasset, after having been excommunicated by the Boston church and thrown out of the colony.

One can imagine that with her and Gorton there it was no place for anyone with weak nerves.

William Coddington, who was running the colony, felt constrained to move seven miles south where, with others -- as mentioned above -- he founded Newport.

When, in March, 1640, the two towns were united under Coddington, Gorton claimed the union was irregular and illegally constituted and that it had never been sanctioned by the majority of freeholders.