THE TOWN OF PELHAM. 3 1 



The family of Hutchinson is supposed to be derived from Mitonensis, 

 who came over to England from Castle Cronenburgh with Harold Har- 

 fager, and settled at or near Bishop Middleham, then a fortified place. 

 A family of Hutchinson was settled at Cowlam or Cowland, in York- 

 shire, about the middle of the thirteenth century, and from which de- 

 scended Hutchison, of Lincoln, who had four sons — William 



Hutchinson, mayor of Lincoln in 1552; Rev. Christopher Hutchinson, 



Hutchinson, and John Hutchinson, mayor of Lincoln in 1556 



and 1565, whose son, Edward Hutchinson was the father of William 

 Hutchinson, who emigrated in 1663 to this county from the neighbor- 

 hood of Boston, County Lincoln, England. Truly has it been said that 

 this family " of the Hutchinsons," up to the day " when Anne Hutchin- 

 son commenced her expoundings," had been the most favored of the 

 day ; wealth, rank and influence had been the portion of successive gen- 

 erations, and had, in truth, been merited by the ability of many of the 

 name. "« 



Anne Hutchinson, wife of William, the emigrant and owner of the 

 colony called " Anne Hook's Neck," was of gentle descent. Her father 

 was the Rev. Francis Marbury, of Gresby, County of Lincoln, of a fam- 

 ily in good position there, 6 and her mother was Bridget, daughter of 

 John Dryden, of Canon Ashby, County of Northampton. Erasmus Dry- 

 den, grandfather of the poet, was the brother of Bridget, and was cre- 

 ated a baronet 16th of November, 1619.^ 



One wonders in amazement at the singular elevation of purpose and 

 daring heroism that could have induced a woman of such rare mental 

 powers and gentle descent as Anne Hutchinson to tear herself away 

 from the civilized society of Rhode Island to bury herself and family in 

 the wilderness between Connecticut and New Netherland, right in the 



lands which we occupy, being as yet unpaid for, the Indians come daily and complain that 

 they have been deceived by the Dutch secretary, called Cornelius, whom they have charac- 

 terized even in the presence of Stuvvesant, as a rogue, a nave, and a liar ; asserting that he 

 himself hud jnat put their names down in a book, and saying that this was not a just and 

 lawful payment but a pretence and fraud similiar to this which occasioned the destruction 

 of Joes Huchiusou and Mr. Collins to the number of nine persons." Holland, Doc. ix. relating 

 to Col. Hist, of N, Y., vol. li. 151. Underliill's testimony however must be received with some 

 caution. 



a Notes upon ancestry of William nutchinson and Anne Marbury by Joseph Samuel 

 Chester of Boston, 1868, 9 to p. 24. The arms of the Hutchinsons of Lincolnshire, and now 

 borne by Bingham Hutchinson, Esq., of England, the descendant of William and Anne Hut- 

 chinson, are: Per pale gu. and az. seme'e of crosses crosslet or, a lion rampant, grg. armed 

 and langued of the third. Crest— a cookatrice az. crested jeloped, and armed gu. issuing out 

 of a ducal crown or. 



b The Marburys of Gresby, County of Lmcoln, were of the same family as the Marburys or 

 Merbarye of Walton, in the County of Chester, temp. Edward Third as their arms and crest 

 prove viz. arg on a f ess engr. gn. three garbs or — crest — a mermaid ppr. holding in the dex- 

 ter hand a mirror, and in the sinester a comb or. 



c Notes upon ancestry of William Hutchinson and Anne Marbury by Joseph Samuel Ches- 

 ter of Boston, 1868, q. to p. 24. The Baronetcy is now represented by the Kev. Sir Joshua 

 Dryden of Canon A.-liiy. "In Canon Ashly, savs Brydges, (Hist, of Northarnpshire,) there is 

 one ronrn of thirty feet long, upon twenty feet wide, which is reported to be entirely, floored 

 and wainscoted with the timber of a single oak which grew In that lordship.* ; (.Burke's Ex- 

 tinct and Dormant Baronetcies.) 



