Anne Marbury Hutchinson
1591? - 1643
Any family relationship between Anne Marbury Hutchinson and my family is somewhere between iffy and no place, but I wanted to honor her in this part of my Women's History series because there is that remote possibility of a connection and besides, she is the mother of Women's Rights and Religious Freedom in America. Anne Marbury was born somewhere around 1591 in England. She married William Hutchinson sometime before 1634 when they immigrated to Boston with their eleven children. Anne was a preacher's daughter and a nurse midwife. She was very educated for a woman of her times. She disagreed with the church and political leaders of Boston about their church doctrine of good works and rules and was an advocate of free grace. She held studies in her home. She became a popular religious leader among the citizens of Boston so the leaders of the church and government who didn't think anyone should disagree with them had her arrested. They also didn't think a woman should be allowed to say any thing critical. They excommunicated her for heresy and she fled to Rhode Island which was a more liberal environment. After her husband died she moved again to New York where all of her family but one daughter were killed in an Indian raid on their cabin. Please click HERE to read more about her.
Since only one of her children lived she doesn't have a lot of lines of descendants but any connection to my family would have been through her husband William's family anyway. In reading the family linage books of the Hutchinson family it is clear that there are a lot of mistakes. It is my personal conjecture that the person that traces down to my family is through her husband William's brother Edward. My Catherine Hutchinson's father being Edward is based on conjecture. The book "Direct Forefathers And All The Descendants Of Richardson Sands" byBenjamin Aymar Sands states on page 55 that Catherine was the daughter of Captain Edward and Sarah Hutchinson. Captain Edward Hutchinson was not married to Sarah but his uncle Edward who was a baker was married to Sarah. So I am basing placing my Catherine as Edward the baker Hutchinson's daughter based on that source and the fact that there doesn't seem much information about Edward the baker Hutchinson's children to prove or disprove Catherine's place among them. I will continue to look for more information to substantiate or disprove this theory. Catherine married John Walker and had a child named Sarah who married James Sandys. They had a son named James Sands who had a daughter named Bathsheba. Bathsheba Sands married Thomas Everett. They had a son named John who married Maria Holder. For a long time I believed that Peter Moyer/Meyer of my lines married John and Maria Everett's daughter Maria, based on the following sources - LEHIGH COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA AND A GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF ITS FAMILIES BY CHARLES RHOADS ROBERTS, REV. JOHN BAER STOUDT, REV. THOMAS KRICK, WILLIAM J. DIETRICH, Vol III and also - Anniversary History of Lehigh County, Vol. III, Copy write 1914. But new information came to light in the form of a compilation of pastoral records of a Rev Hilffrich. I ordered and viewed the microfilm of those records and conferred with other researchers whom I trust and I decided that based on the other family members included in the pastoral records the Peter mentioned in them is ours and his two wives were Magdalena Schmidt and after her death, Anna Maria Frey. Never the less, the Everette family, the Moyer family, and the Frey family were neighbors and friends and most likely there is a marriage connection in there somewhere, probably with a different Peter and Maria. In fact upon the death of a Frey couple the Everett's raised one family of Frey children. So I have left Ann Marbury Hutchinson in my tree - although disconnected - because I think I will eventually find a place to plug that line back into. To move on down from Peter Moyer/Myer that is ours to my line, Peter and his first wife Magdalena Schmidt had a son named Peter Moyer who had a daughter named Amelia and she married Solomon Zelner. Amelia and Solomon had a daughter named Sarah Amanda who married Herman August Funk. Their son was Harry Elbert and his daughter was Thelma Funk who was my mother's mother.
There is a lot of great information online about Anne Marbury Hutchinson in addition to the link that I provided. Those that are interested can easily google more information. Please enjoy the video that follows. It is one of many videos that can be found on YouTube about her life.
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