Christopher Helme

Christopher Helme (1603 – c. 1650) was an early English immigrant to the Massachusetts Bay Colony and one of the founders of Exeter, New Hampshire.

Wheelwright and his sister-in-law Anne Hutchinson (a cousin of Christopher's stepmother, Priscilla Wentworth) quickly became embroiled in religious upheavals which caused considerable turmoil in the Colony.

In November 1637, the group settled into winter quarters at Piscataqua (Portsmouth, New Hampshire) and in May 1639 established the settlement of Exeter.

In November 1643, two of his companions, Samuel Gorton and Richard Carder, were imprisoned for heresy and sedition by the Massachusetts authorities.

Gorton and a few friends bought land from the Narragansett Indians about twenty miles south of Providence, where they established Warwick.

In 1648, six men from each town in the colony (Providence, Newport, Warwick and Portsmouth) were chosen to be members of the Court of Trials.