154. WILLIAM HUTCHINSON (bp. 1586–after 1641)

The migrant ancestor William Hutchinson was the son of Edward and Susanna Hutchinson. He was baptized on 14 August 1586 in Alford, Lincolnshire. He died soon after June 1641. He married Anne Marbury on 9 August 1612 at St Mary Woolnoth, London. [1]

William and Anne Hutchinson came to New England on the Griffen in 1634 and settled in Boston. William was admitted to the church in Boston on 26 October 1634, was a freeman on 4 March 1634/5 and was chosen deacon on 27 November 1636. He was a deputy for Boston on 6 May 1635, 2 September 1635, 3 March 1635/6, 25 May 1636 and 8 September 1636. He a selectman in Boston on 14 March 1635/6, 7 September 1636, 20 March 1636/7 and 16 October 1637, although he attended his last meeting on 29 January 1637/8. He was a magistrate on 25 Mary 1636 but was discharge on 7 December 1636 at the church’s request. [2]

William was a treasurer at Portsmouth on 27 June 1638. [3]

Governor John Winthrop wrote that at “Aquiday [in Narragansett bay] the people grow very tumultuous, and put out Mr. Coddington and the three other magistrates, and chose Mr. William Hutchinson only, a man of very mild temper and weak parts, and wholly guided by his wife, who had been the beginner of all the former troubles in the country, and continued to breed disturbance.” [4]

155. ANNE MARBURY (bp. 1591–1643)

Ancestry of Anne Marbury

Anne Marbury was probably the most famous woman in colonial New England.

Anne was the daughter of Reverend Francis Marbury and Bridget Dryden. She was baptized on 20 July 1591 in Alford, Lincolnshire. She was killed by Indians in the late summer of 1643 in what is now Westchester County, New York. [16] She married William Hutchinson.

Anne was admitted to the church in Boston on 2 November 1634. [17]

On or shortly after 21 October 1636 Governor John Winthrop wrote, “One Mrs. Hutchinson, a member of the church of Boston, a woman of ready wit and bold spirit, brought over with her two dangerous errors.” [18]

Anne Hutchinson held private meetings at which she lured many people away from established doctrine. [19]

On 22 March 1637/8 Governor John Winthrop wrote, “Anne the wife of our brother Willyam Hutchinson having on the 15th of this month been openly in public congregation admonished of sundry errors held by her was on the same 22th day cast out of the church for impenitently insisting a manifest lie then expressed by her in open congregation.” [20]

Anne was tried by the Massachusetts authorities, convicted and banished, along with some of her followers. In 1638 the Hutchinsonians founded Portsmouth, Rhode Island. [21]

In September 1643 Governor John Winthrop wrote, “Indians near the Dutch, having killed 15 men … came to Mrs. Hutchinson’s in way of a friendly neighborhood, as they had been accustomed, and taking their opportunity, killed her and Mr. Collins, her son-in-law, … and all her family.” [22]

William Hutchinson’s English Ancestry

JOHN HUTCHINSON (d. 1565)

John Hutchinson died on 24 May 1565 at four in the morning and was buried the same day in the Church of St. Mary le Wigford in Lincoln. He married first Margaret, probably last name Browne. John and Margaret had six children. He married second Anne Unknown. She had been married at least once before as she refers to children not with John in her will. She was probably Edward's mother; she refers to him in her will as "her son". [5]

Edward was apprenticed on 23 September 1529 to Edward Atkinson of Lincoln, glover, for seven years.  He was Sheriff of Lincoln on September 1547. He was an alderman on 11 April 1556. He was mayor in September 1556. On 21 October 1558 and again on 2 October 1561 he was Justice of the Peace. He was mayor again in Sep 1564 and he held this office until his death. His will of 21 April 1564 indicates he had considerable property. [6]

Child of John Hutchinson and probably Anne Unknown:

EDWARD HUTCHINSON (c. 1564–1632)

Edward Hutchinson was born about 1564 in St. Mary le Wigford in Lincoln. He was buried on 14 February 1631/2 in Alford. He married Susan (Susanna) Unknown. Susanna went with her daughter Mrs. Wheelwright to Wells, Maine and died there in 1642. [7]

The Corporation of Lincoln recorded: "Edward Hochynson, son of John Hochynson, Alderman, deceased, enrolled apprentice to Edmund Knyght [his uncle], Alderman and Merchant of Lincoln for eight years from the Feast of Pentecost 19 Elizabeth [27 May 1577]." [8]

The Hutchinson family was from the market town of Alford in Lincolnshire. The immigrants to New England from this family were an aged widow, her four middle-aged sons and her daughter, married to the Rev. John Wheelwright. It is believed that Edward accompanied Mr. Cotton in the Griffen, arriving in Boston in Sep 1633. The rest of the family arrived in the same ship a year later. The family immediately purchased land at Boston and also purchased large amounts of land elsewhere from the Indians. [9]

Children of Edward Hutchinson and Susanna Unknown:

i. William Hutchinson, the immigrant.
ii. Samuel Hutchinson was baptized on 1 November 1590 in Alford. He never married. He lived in Boston until his death in 1667. He died between 7 April and 16 July 1667 and 16 July 1667.
Samuel Hutchinson of Boston signed his will on 7 April 1667 and his witnesses testified on 16 July 1667. In his will he refers to his sister Wheelwright and her daughters, his sister Rushworth and her son, Elifal Stratton, Faith Savage and her children, his cousin Peleg Sanford, his cousin Elizabeth Hutchinson and her daughter, his cousins Restcome, William, Ezbon and Elisha Sanborn; his cousin Edward Hutchinson and his children, Edward, Katherine and Hannah Hutchinson, his cousin Susan Cole, his cousin Bridget Phillips (transcribed as Willis), his cousin Eliakim Hutchinson, his brother Edward Hutchinson and Elizabeth Hutchinson, Ann Diar and Susan Hutchinson. [10]
iii. Esther Hutchinson was baptized on 22 July 1593 in Alford. She married Thomas Rushmore on 7 October 1613. She proved her husband's will on 20 November 1632.
Samuel Hutchinson mentions his sister Rushmore in his will of 7 April 1667. [11]
iv. John Hutchinson was baptized on 18 May 1595 in Alford. He was buried on 20 June 1644 in Alford. He married Bridget Bury on 5 October 1626 in Little Ponton, near Grantham, Lincoln. Bridget was baptised on 1 Aug 1602 in Grantham. She was the daughter of William Bury, Esq. and Emme Drydon and the sister of Sir William Bury. She was the cousin of Anne Marbury.
John described himself as a woolen draper.
v. Richard Hutchinson was baptized on 3 January 1597/8 in Alford. He was living in London on 7 June 1614.
Richard Hutchinson did not go to Rhode Island. He went back to England and became a wealthy merchant in London. He supposedly lost £60,000 in the great fire of London in 1666. He was an agent for the Massachusetts Colony in England for a long time.
vi. Susanna Hutchinson was baptized on 25 November 1599 in Alford. She was buried on 5 August 1601 in Alford.
vii. Susanna Hutchinson was baptized on 9 August 1601 in Alford. She married first Augustine Storre on 21 November 1623 in Alford. She married second Atherton Hough. [12]
Susanna came to New England. [13]
viii. Anne Hutchinson was baptized on 12 June 1603 in Alford.
ix. Mary Hutchinson was baptized on 22 December 1605 in Alford. She married Reverend John Wheelwright.
Samuel Hutchinson mentioned his sister Wheelwright in his will of 7 April 1667. [14]
Mary went to Exeter, New Hampshire and then to Wells, Maine.
x. Edward Hutchinson was baptized on 20 Dec 1607 in Alford. He married Sarah Unknown. He left no known children.

Edward is mentioned in the 3 April 1667 will of his brother Samuel. [15]
Edward went to Newport, but returned to England. Sarah was admitted to the first church in Boston in 1663. Edward Hutchinsons appears on the 4 March 1633/4 and 3 September 1634 lists of freemen. One of these, at least, must be his nephew.