Random History Bytes 126: Anne (Marbury) Hutchinson

http://jytangledweb.org/randomhistorybytes/

John H. Yates

Last Update: Wed Mar 08 08:37 EST 2023


Random History Bytes 126: Anne (Marbury) Hutchinson
----------

In documenting the Monmouth County lineage of Amelia Throckmorton I found there may be some speculation in her on line lineage. It is taking some time to sort that out and look for more records. So the next installment on Amelia's lineage will be delayed. It shouldn't change her ultimate Throckmorton lineage, just which precise Monmouth County path it takes.

Meanwhile, I discovered Relative Finder which has taken me on a few detours. It claimed Jesse James is my 7th cousin 4x removed. Examining the lineage, it holds up, but even more interesting is our common ancestor, Anne (Marbury) Hutchinson.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Hutchinson

She is my 10th great grandmother on the Marbury -> Hutchinson -> Raynor -> Rose -> Leek -> Sears -> Yates line. The lineage reached Little Egg Harbor when Ephraim Rose (Abt. 1689-Bef. 1747) married Martha Amelia Raynor (1695-1753). [Hints for any curious LEH genealogists who may be descendants of that couple.]

She was murdered in 1643 with many of her family by Siwanoy Indian warriors in New Amsterdam, in what is now the Bronx.

She was a Puritan reformer. Banned from Boston. Joined Roger Williams in Rhode Island. Afraid Massachusetts was going to take over Rhode Island, she left for New Amsterdam. Too trusting of Indians, who warned settlers away, was massacred by Siwanoy warriors, because of Willem Kieft's war on Indians.

Inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1994. Statues of her and her daughter, Susanna (who was spared in the massacre, perhaps because of her red hair, and lived with the Indians for a number of years, but eventually ransomed back to her family in Boston.)

All documented in the link above. It sure brings home some of the major events in the early history of colonization.