34 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



offended God. The Puritans believed, or affected to believe, that all 

 who disagreed with them in their peculiar dogmas were in league with 

 t'.-.e devil ; and would surely be visited, sooner or latter, by some terrible 

 retribution from on High."' 1 " When the news of her sad fate was told 

 in Boston, her clerical enemies rejoiced over it as a new proof of her 

 guilt. The ruling faction smiled at the recital, if never before, like 

 Philip II. at the news of St. Bartholomew." "The Lord," said Welle, 

 "heard our groans to heaven, and freed us from our great and sore 

 affliction." 6 "The Indians set upon them and slew her and all her 

 children, save one that escaped (her own husband being dead before) a 

 dreadful blow. Some write that the Indians did burn her to death with 

 lire, her house, and all the rest named that belonged to her; but I am 

 not able to affirm by what kind of death they slew her, but slain it is, it 

 seems she is, according to all reports. I never heard that the Indians 

 in those parts did ever before this commit the like outrage upon 

 any one family or families ; and, therefore, God's hand is the more 

 apparently seen herein, to pick out this woful woman to make her and 

 those belonging to her an unheard oj \ heavy exaj?iple of their cruelty above 

 others." c "Heaven, they thought had avenged them of their sharp- 

 tongued foe. They even invented shocking calumnies to prove that she 

 was Satan's minister. No tales were too gross and shameless, even for 

 the wise Winthrop and the haughty Dudley; their hate pursued her to 

 her lonely grave, and they sought to hold her up for the execration of 

 posterity as the heavenly detested enemy of the church." 



Anne Hutchinson's family did not wholly die out ; one of her sons 

 had remained in Boston and was the ancestor of Hutchinson, the Tory 

 governor of Massachusetts in the Revolution. A daughter, too, was 

 married and settled in Boston ; and the blood of Annie Hutchinson 

 still flows in the veins of several New England families."^ 



The next proprietor, as we have had occasion to show previously, 

 was Thomas Pell of Fairfield, Connecticut, gentleman, (as he is styled) 

 who obtained a grant from the Indians on Tuesday, 14th of November, 

 1654 — embracing all that tract of land called West Chester, which is 

 bounded on the East by a brook, called Cedar Tree Brook or Gravelly 

 Brook, and so running Northward as the said brook runs into the woods 

 about eight English miles, thence West to the river Aquebung or 

 Bronck's river to a certain bend in the said river, thence by marked 

 trees South until it reaches the tide waters of the Sound, which lyeth 



a The Manhattan Papers, No. 10, by .Ian Vogelvanger, Sunday Times, New York. 

 6 Anne Hutchinson by Eugene Lawrence, Hist. Mag., March, 'lSGT, p. 15S, by Dawson. 

 c Welde's Rise. Reign and Ruin of the Antmomiaiis. 1'r 

 d Annie Hutchinson— By Eugene Lawrence, E.-q., Hist. Mag., March 1567, p. 158, 



