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Why was John Humphrey Noyes forced to flee from Putney, Vermont?

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At Putney, Vt., he formed (1839) a society of Bible communists, later called Perfectionists. In 1846 they began the practice of complex marriage, a form of polygamy, but this so aroused their neighbors that Noyes was forced to flee.

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