Edward Hutchinson

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• Alternate birth: Abt 28 May 1613

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He came to New England in 1633, a year before his parents, along with the Rev. John Cotton and his uncle Edward Hutchinson. Shortly thereafter he returned to England, where he married Katherine Hamby. Upon returning to New England he supported his mother in the Antinomian controversy, for which he was disarmed; he then followed his family to Rhode Island, where he was one of the signers of the Portsmouth Compact, 7 Mar 1638. In 1642 he and John Leverett were sent on an embassy to the Narraganset.

"His name appears in the roll of freemen at Newport in 1641, but he seems to have retained his connection with Boston, for all his children were baptized there from 1637 to 1658. He probably returned there after his father's death. […] Edward Hutchinson became a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in 1638, was Lieutenant in 1654, and Captain in 1657. He served in King Philip's War with the Massachusetts forces as chief officer of cavalry, [and] was mortally wounded in an Indian ambuscade near Wickabaug Pond, West Brookfield, Mass." [John Denison Champlin, citation details below]

"To his honor, he entered into the dissent against the sanguinary law of 1658, for punishing the Quakers with death on their return to the colony after banishment." [History of the Military Company of the Massachusetts, Now Called the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, citation details below]

Edward married Katherine Hamby on 13 Oct 1636 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England. Katherine (daughter of Robert Hamby and Elizabeth Arnold) was born before 19 Oct 1615; was christened on 10 Dec 1615 in St. Matthew's, Ipswich, Suffolk, England; died after 10 Jun 1649. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Col. Elisha Hutchinson was born on 16 Nov 1641 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; was christened on 28 Nov 1641 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 10 Dec 1717 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; was buried in Boston Common, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.

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He grew up in Alford, Lincolnshire, where he was warden of the church in 1620-21. He arrived in Boston on the Griffin, 18 Sep 1634, with his widowed mother; his wife; his wife's younger sister Catherine Marbury, about 24; and his and his wife's ten children. Also on that voyage were his brother Samuel; his sister Mary, wife of the Rev. John Wheelwright; and the Reverends Zachariah Symmes and John Lothropp.

"Among their fellow passengers were the Rev. John Lathrop, afterward the first minister of Scituate, and the Rev. Zachariah Symmes, who became pastor of the church at Charlestown. [Gov. John] Winthrop tells us that one of the chief amusements in the long voyages of the time was listening to sermons, and that often three long homilies were delivered within the twenty-four hours. Though no diary of the Griffin's voyage has been preserved, it is not likely that Messrs. Lathrop and Symmes were exceptions to this homiletic custom of their brethren, so it is probable that they delivered themselves daily of the orthodoxy of the day, tinctured, as was the custom of our Puritan forbears, with their individual opinions. Another custom of those primitive times was the discussion by the laity of the points of doctrine raised in such sermons. In these discussions, in which the ministers also took part, we may easily imagine that Mrs. Hutchinson was not backward, and as, according to contemporary evidence, she was of a nimble and comprehensive wit, we may conceive that she sometimes got the better of her antagonists. However this may be, it is certain that these ministers, and especially Mr. Symmes, became greatly prejudiced against her and that Symmes carried his animosity so far as to attempt, after the arrival in Boston, to exclude her from admission to the church." ["The Tragedy of Anne Hutchinson", citation details below]

Following his wife's banishment he removed with her and most of their family to Rhode Island, where he was at first treasurer of the new colony of Portsmouth, alongside William Coddington who served as Judge, a title meaning, in effect, governor or chief magistrate. A controversy compelled Coddington to relocate in 1639, establishing the town of Newport, and Hutchinson became Judge, in which office he died.

William married Mrs. Ann Marbury Hutchinson on 9 Aug 1612 in St. Mary Woolnoth, London, England. Mrs. (daughter of Rev. Francis Marbury and Bridget Dryden) was born before 20 Jul 1591; was christened on 20 Jul 1591 in Alford, Lincolnshire, England; died about Aug 1643 in New Netherland, in what is now the Bronx. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The famous Antinomian whose spiritual authenticity and personal charisma terrified the early Bay Colony so thoroughly that, as widely chronicled, they disarmed all her followers and sent many of them into exile. One of TWK's twelve proven "gateway ancestors."

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• Alternate birth: of Alford, Lincolnshire, England

Edward married Susanna. Susanna died between 1645 and 1646 in Wells, York, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"Susanna, who came to New England with her son William in 1634 and died at the home of Rev. John Wheelwright, Wells, Maine, in 1645-6." [John Denison Champlin, citation details below]

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• Alternate death: 12 Feb 1611

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"Francis Marbury (sometimes spelled Merbury) (1555-1611) was a Cambridge-educated English cleric, schoolmaster and playwright. He is best known for being the father of Anne Hutchinson, considered the most famous (or infamous) English woman in colonial America." [Wikipedia]

Author of the 1579 play The Contract of Marriage of Wit and Wisdom.

Francis married Bridget Dryden in 1587. Bridget (daughter of John Dryden and Elizabeth Cope) was born after 1563 in of Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire, England; died after 12 Feb 1644. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Sheriff, alderman, and then twice mayor of Lincoln, Lincolnshire. Grandfather of William Hutchinson, husband of the famous antinomian Ann Marbury Hutchinson.

John married Anne. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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She was the widow of a man surnamed Clint.

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1524, of Girsby in Burgh-upon-Bain, Lincolnshire, England

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Father of the Rev. Francis Marbury; grandfather of Anne Marbury Hutchinson; ancestor of Presidents Garfield, FDR, & Bush.

Probably (but not incontrovertibly) the William Marbury who represented Newport iuxta Launceston, a notoriously "rotten" borough, in Parliament in 1572.

William Marbury (1524-1581) = Agnes Lenton (b. ~1528)
Rev. Francis Marbury (1555-1611) = Bridget Dryden (1563-1644)
Anne Marbury (1591-1643) = William Hutchinson (1586-1641)
Edward Hutchinson = Catherine Hamby
Anne Hutchinson = Daniel Vernon
Samuel Vernon = Elizabeth Fleet
Samuel Vernon = Amy Ward
Samuel Vernon = ?
William S. Vernon = America Fontaine
Mary Ann Vernon = Nathaniel Wolfe
Sophia Vernon Wolfe = John Henry Hammond
John Henry Hammond = Emily Vanderbilt Sloane
John Hammond (1910-1987)

-- One of the most important impresarios of 20th century music; discoverer or early champion of, for instance, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Charlie Christian, Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Teddy Wilson, Big Joe Turner, Pete Seeger, Babatunde Olatunji, Aretha Franklin, George Benson, Freddie Green, Leonard Cohen, Arthur Russell, Jim Copp, Asha Puthli, and Stevie Ray Vaughan.

William married Agnes Lenton. Agnes (daughter of John Lenton) was born about 1525 in of Aldwinkle, Northamptonshire, England; died after Nov 1581. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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His will of 15 Aug 1584 directed his burial in Ashby Church, "near unto the place where John Cope, knight, is buried," adding "And although I doe not allow of pomp in burials, yet for some reasonable considerations I will that the stone that I have already prepared shall be layede upon my grave, and my arms and my wyve's graven in brasse thereupon."

John married Elizabeth Cope in 1551. Elizabeth (daughter of John Cope and Bridget Raleigh) died after 15 Aug 1584. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 30 Sep 1584