 The Ancestors and Descendants Of Anne Marbury Submitted By: Don Wright dpwright@footprints.org  Anne Marbury, born 20 Jul 1591, daughter of Francis Marbury and Bridget Dryden, married William Hutchinson, son of Edward and Susan Hutchinson, 9 Aug 1612. Anne, who had been the gifted prophetess of the doleful heresies that shook and almost subverted the Colony of Massachusetts. Because of her violent heats of religious controversy she and her husband and family as well as others were banished from Massachusetts. In November 1637, she was committed to the custody of Joseph Weld, brother of Thomas Weld, in the town of Roxbury, her banishment postponed until spring. While thus a prisoner for more than four months, all access of husband, children, and friends were denied, except with leave of the court, she was exposed to visitations of any holy inquisitor; and the minister of Roxbury. Thomas Weld, must have used his sacred office with equal ardor for her conversion, and vexation at his ill success. At one time she was called "the American Jezebel". Her son Francis, for siding with his mother and for maintaining those opinions and own church rights had been fined and imprisoned, at Boston in 1641. After the death of his father in 1642, he went with his mother to the Dutch Province, where in 1643 he was killed by the Indians. The family, along with Coddington and other prominent men, was forced to remove to Rhode Island, where in 1638, they formed a new civil compact, not much unlike that of Massachusetts. When her husband died in 1642, she removed next year beyond Connecticut to the Dutch Province and before being fairly established in her new plantation was, with several children and servants to the number of sixteen, cut off by the Indians. She and son Francis and a daughter were killed by the Indians in Sep 1643.
Children of Anne and William (All but one baptized at Alford, England) A large report of the case of Mrs. Hutchinson, in Hutchinson's History, Vol II, page 482-520, should be read by ever one that desires to know the full extent of her tyranny. Also, see "Fun Letter" on Anne Hutchinson. Please place in the Subject Line: WEBPAGE-HISTORY 
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