Our 8X great grandaunt. She was baptized on this day in 1591. One reason that she and her family were banished from the Puritan community is that she dared to instruct men.
Anne Marbury Hutchinson Historie Dames Although her exact birth date is uncertain, on July 20, 1591, the infant Anne Marbury was baptized in Alford, #Lincolnshire, England. The first female religious leader among North America’s early European settlers, Anne Marbury Hutchinson was the daughter of an outspoken clergyman silenced for criticizing the Church of England. Better educated than most men of the day, she spent her youth immersed in her father’s library. At twenty-one, Anne Marbury married William Hutchinson and bore the first of their fourteen children. The Hutchinsons became adherents of the preaching and teachings of John Cotton, a #Puritan minister who left England for America. In 1634, the Hutchinson family followed Cotton to New England, where religious and political authority overlapped. Many criminal laws in the early #NewEngland colonies were based on the Bible, especially the Old Testament. Often called “Bible Commonwealths,” the New England colonies sought guidance from the scriptures in regulating the lives of their citizens. Serving as a skilled #herbalist and #midwife in the #Massachusetts Bay Colony, Anne Hutchinson began meeting with other women for prayer and religious discussion. Her charisma and intelligence soon also drew men, including ministers and magistrates, to her gatherings. She emphasized the individual’s relationship with God, stressing personal revelation over institutionalized observances and absolute reliance on God’s grace rather than on good works as the means to salvation. Hutchinson’s views challenged religious orthodoxy, while her growing power as a female spiritual leader threatened established gender roles. Called for a civil trial before the General Court of Massachusetts in November 1637, Hutchinson ably defended herself against charges that she had defamed the colony’s ministers and that as a woman she had dared to teach men. Her extensive knowledge of Scripture, her eloquence, and her intelligence allowed Hutchinson to debate with more skill than her accusers. Yet because Hutchinson claimed direct revelation from God and argued that “laws, commands, rules, and edicts are for those who have not the light which makes plain the pathway,” she was convicted and banished from the colony, a sentence confirmed along with formal excommunication in the ecclesiastical trial that followed. Refusing to recant, Hutchinson accepted exile and in 1638 migrated with her family to Roger Williams’ new colony of #RhodeIsland, where she helped found the town of #Portsmouth. After her husband died in 1642, Hutchinson moved to #Dutch territory near Long Island Sound (across from an area now known as Co-op City, along New York’s Hutchinson River Parkway, named for Anne Hutchinson). In 1643, Hutchinson and six of her children were killed by Siwanoy Indians, possibly with the encouragement of Puritan authorities. “Proud Jezebel has at last been cast down,” was the supposed comment of Hutchinson’s nemesis, Massachusetts Governor John Winthrop.
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17-year-old Lady Jane Grey, our 3rd cousin 12X removed, is a tragic figure in English history, the pawn of a cruel, abusive mother and an ambitious father. She was very intelligent and spoke Greek, Latin, Hebrew, French, and Italian. Her grandmother, Mary Tudor, was a younger sister of Henry VIII. Jane, a Protestant, was queen for just 9 days before Henry VIII’s Catholic daughter Mary declared herself queen after the death of young Edward VI and imprisoned Jane in the Tower of London for treason and had her executed. Jane’s reign ended 468 years ago today. Her father and her husband were also beheaded.
‘Lady Jane Grey Edward Hall Jones (AKA Emery Hall Shaw) had two older brothers, Wylie Meyer (June 4, 1885-July 28, 1963) and Charles Allen (November 20, 1886-April 6, 1969). Both brothers worked for the United Shoe Manufacturing Corporation based in Beverly, MA. The company monopolized the show machine industry after it merged with three other companies: Goodyear Shoe Manufacturing Company, Consolidated McKay Lasting Machine Company, and McKay Shoe Manufacturing Company, During both World Wars I and II and the Cold War, USMC developed and manufactured various land and aircraft armaments and military hardware in addition to shoes. They were in business from 1899-June 1989.
Wylie married Helen Florence Kingsbury (1889-1988) in 1908 in Holliston, MA, and raised two sons—Philip Houston (1910-2000) and Kingsbury Knowlton (1918-1998). Wylie served in Europe during World War I and once ran into his younger brother Emery while they were stationed there. He died in Collier, FL, and is buried in Holliston, MA. His wife Helen ran for office in 1932 as a Republican and held a law degree. Her family was one of the first to settle Holliston, MA. Charles Allen Shaw joined the British Army in 1915 and served in France during World War I. According to his obituary, he received the Croix de Guerre with a bronze star for heroism in action during their Battle of Champagne. There were two Battles of Champagne fought between 1914 and 1915 with Allied forces trying to beat back the Germans. Both sides suffered heavy losses with little gain. He enlisted in the U.S. Army on October 1, 1917 and rose to the rank of Sergeant. He was discharged on November 1, 1918. While in France, Charles married a French woman, Marie Jeanne Francoise Genevieve Rousannes (1896-1988) and lived in Paris after the war. He and Genevieve raised five children: Evelyn Huguette (1921-1995), Emline (1922-?), Myrtle (Abt. 1923-?), Maybelle Winifred (1923-2003), and Thomas Houston (1925-1995). Paris started mobilizing for war in 1939. The Germans marched into the city on June 10, 1940. The Shaw family must have seen the danger that was coming and left their home from the port Le Vernon on October 15, 1939 and arrived in New York on October 22. They may have visited the family in the United States at least twice before in 1924 and 1932. Charles and Genevieve are buried in Lake Grove Cemetery with his sister Inez Anita Shaw and her husband Herbert Gordon Weston. Margaret Tudor, your 1st cousin 14X removed, married King James IV when she was just 14 years old. She would marry 3 times in her life and died at the age of 52. She was the granddaughter of King Edward IV of England.
Scottish monarch, queen consort of James IV. Eldest daughter of Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York. She married James on August 8, 1503 at Holyrood. He was 30, she was 14. The marriage was accompanied by a treaty of "perpetual peace" between England and Scotland. They had six children, only their son James survived childhood. The peace treaty ended when James IV invaded England in 1513, where he was killed at Flodden. Margaret became regent for the young James V. On August 6, 1514 she married Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus, which led to her losing the regency to John Stuart, Earl of Albany. She had one daughter, Margaret, by Douglas. John Stuart obtained custody of the young king, and Margaret fled home to England. She returned to Scotland in 1517, when Douglas abducted the king. Margaret obtained a divorce, and the king escaped Douglas' control and began to rule in his own right in 1527. Margaret then married Henry Stewart, 1st Lord Methven, on April 2, 1528. The couple served as the king's chief advisors for a time. Margaret had one daughter, Dorothea, by Stewart. She died of "palsy" at Methven Castle in Perth at the age of 52. It is because of Margaret that the thrones of England and Scotland would become one after the death of Elizabeth I. |
Bonnie EastonHi! I am a Jones cousin, daughter of Evelyn Jones Easton. Since retiring as a reference librarian after 20 years, I have become a genealogy addict. Our ancestors want to tell us their stories.
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