All had gone well with Reverend Wheelwright for a time, but he, with his sister-in-law Anne Hutchinson, and Henry Vane, Governor of the Colony, were soon in hot controversy with the conservative part—the “Covenant of Grace versus the Covenant of Works.” The party that Wheelwright stoutly defends stands for freedom of speech and opinion, but there is a great deal of political partisanship mixed with these theological disputes, and the controversy between Wheelwright and the conservatives is the principal issue in John Winthrop’s candidacy for governor of the colony against Vane.

Winthrop is elected, and Vane returns to England, while Wheelwright is banished from Massachusetts along with Anne Hutchinson and other friends.

Wheelwright with some loyal friends removes to ...