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She was married about 1612, to William Hutch- inson, of Alford, Lincolnshire, whose younger sister, Mary, was married to the Rev. John Wheelwright, of Lincohisliire. Edward, the eldest son of William and Anne (Marbury) Hutchin- son, accompanied the Rev. John Cotton to Mas- sachusetts Bay colony in 1633, and he was followed by his father and mother, in September, 1634, and by his uncle, the Rev, John Wheel- wright, in 1636. Mrs. Hutcliinson for three years made sweeping criticisms of all the preachers of the Bay, except Cotton, whose teachings she upheld. The clergy considered her doctrines " dangerous errors," claiming that she taught : that the person of the Holy Ghost dwells in a justified person ;" that " a devout Christian re- ceives from God immediate revelation of His will ; " and that " no sanctification can help to evidence to as our justification." She gave public lectures, first to women, and afterward to both men and women, in which she repeated and commented on sermons she had heard in England. Her only supporters among the clergy were her brother-in-law, the Rev. John Wheel- wright, who had been placed over the church at Mount Wollaston (Braintree), and who was out- spoken in his advocacy of the doctrine of the " Antinomians," and her pastor, John Cotton, who was less outspoken. Sir Harry Vane, the governor, was her defender. Two parties, one claiming to be " under a covenant of grace," and the other " under a covenant of works," were formed in Boston, and when the Pequot war called for soldiers, a company of militia would not march, as their chaplain was con- sidered to be "under a covenant of works." This brought the church to a determination to put an end to the matter, and Wheelwright was found guilty of preaching a seditious sermon and banished, and Mrs. Hutchinson was exiled from the colony on the civil charge that she disturbed their peace, and, " being convented for tra- ducing the ministers and their ministry, she declared voluntarily her revelations for their ground, and that she should be delivered and the court ruined with their posterity." This action was taken, Nov. 2, 1637. With her husband and fifteen children, she went to the Narragan- sett country, and purchased the island of Aquid- neck from the Indians, and founded the town of Portsmouth, and the Rev. John Wheelwright went to New Hampshire, and with his followers founded Exeter and Dover. Her husband died in 1642, and with her children, she journeyed toward New Netherlands, and settled west of Mill river in Connecticut. They had been in the place less than a year when the Indians attacked the settlement, and murdered sixteen of the set- ters, including Mrs. Hutchinson, and most of her

children and servants. One child, Susanna, ten years old, was carried into captivity and ran- somed four years afterward, and in 16ol, was married to John Cole, of Rhode Island. Anne Hutchinson died in September, 1643.

HUTCHINSON, Charles Lawrence, banker, was born in Lynn, Mass. , March 7, 1854 ; son of Ben- jamin P. and Sarah (Ingalls) Hutchinson; grand- son of Ira and Hannah (Wilson) Hutchinson, and of William and Lydia (Atwell) Ingalls. His father removed with his family to Chicago, 111., in 1856, became a leader on the board of trade of Chicago, and died at Lake Geneva, Wis., March 16, 1899. Charles L. was graduated at the high school, and in 1873 engaged in business with his father, a dealer in cereal products. He was made president of the Corn Exchange bank, and also became a director in various large cor- porations. He was a liberal patron of the Art Institute of Chicago, and was elected and served for over twenty years as its president. With Martin A. Ryerson, he advanced to the institute $200,000 to secure a valuable collection of paint- ings. He was a director of the Columbian ex- position of 1893, and chairman of the committee on fine arts, and was also promoter of the Chicago university, and other educational interests of the city of Chicago. He was married in 1883 to Frances, daughter of Herbert M. Kinsley. He was president of the general convention of the Universalist church for three terms.

HUTCHINSON, Enoch, editor and author, was born in Marion, N.Y., June 25, 1810. He was graduated at Waterville college, A.B., 1834, A.M., 1837, and at the Newton Theological insti- tution, Newton Centre, Mass., 1837. He was or- dained a clergyman in the Baptist church in Boston, Mass., Nov. 26, 1837 ; and was pastor of the Baptist church at Framingham, Mass., 1840- 41. In the latter year he accepted the chair of tlieology in the Maine Baptist Theological insti- tute, Tliomaston, Maine, and was subsequently for many years editor of the Baptist JMemorial published in New York city. He was a thorough oriental student and is the author of a volume entitled. Music of the Bible (1864); and also of a translation of Uhlemann's Si/riac Grammar (1875) . He died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Marcli 1 , 1885.

HUTCHINSON, Israel, soldier, was born in Dan vers, Mass. . in November, 1727; son of Elisha and Ginger (Porter) Hutchinson, and a descend- ant in the fifth generation from Richard Hutchin- son, who came to Salem, Mass. , in 1634. His father was one of the first board of the governor's council of Massachusetts Bay. Israel served his country as sergeant in a company of rangers in 1757, in the colonial wars against the allied forces of the French and Indians, and was one of the non-commissioned olBcers who led the