Much of this material comes from NEHGR 20:355-367

Edward, the son of John and Ann Hutchinson of Lincolnshire, England, was born about 1564 in the parish of St Mary le Wigford in town of Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, buried at Alford, Lincolnshire on 14 Feb 1632[/3], and married Susanna _______, b. c. 1565, living in New England in the early 1640s. Edward was a mercer and a resident of Lincolnshire, England, most noted for the careers of his children in New England.

While his father and several of his uncles and brothers became prominent as clergymen, aldermen, sheriffs, and mayors in the city of Lincoln, Edward focused his efforts on his business after moving to the town of Alford. Remarkably, not a single record for him has been found in Alford, other than his burial and the baptisms of his eleven children, but he likely gained a considerable estate, and his children married into prominent families.

What was most exceptional about Edward Hutchinson occurred following his 1632 death. Beginning in 1633, five of his nine surviving children and his widow immigrated to New England, and all six of them were exiled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a result of the events of the Antinomian Controversy from 1636 to 1638. From Boston two of his children went south and became founding settlers of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, and three of them, with his widow, went north to establish Exeter in the Province of New Hampshire, and then proceeded to Wells, Maine. Because of their involvement in the controversy, his children had a disproportionately large role in the establishment of these new settlements in New England. Children, all baptized at Alford, Lincolnshire:

* William, bapt. 14 Aug 1586, m. 1612 Ann MARBURY

* Theophilus, bapt. 8 Sep 1588, prob. died in infancy, perhaps away from Alford

* Samuel, bapt. 1 Nov 1590, d. spring 1667, either didn't marry, or left no surviving wife or child if he did.

* Esther/Hester, bapt. 22 July 1593, living 1644.

* John, bapt 18 May 1595, bur. Alford 20 June 1644, m. Little Ponton, near Grantham, Lincolnshire 5 Oct 1626 Bridget BURY.

* Richard, bapt. 3 Jan 1597/8, d. 1670, m. Mary _______, living in 1669.

* Susanna, bapt. 25 Nov 1599, bur. Alford 5 Aug 1601

* Susanna, bapt. 9 Aug 1601, d. 1651, m. (1) Alford 21 Nov 1623 Augustine STORRE, d. c. 1644, the son of Rev. Thomas Storre, vicar of Bilsby, Lincolnshire; m. (2) c. 1645, as his second wife, Atherton HOUGH, b. c. 1593, d. Boston 11 Sep 1650.

* Anne, bapt. 12 June 1603; nothing more, unless she is the one mentioned in her brother John's 1644 will as "sister Levitt." Ralph Levet was a witness to the will. A theory has been presented that her husband was Thomas Leavitt who was baptised at Melton in County York on 8 July 1594, the nephew of Reverend Ralph Leavitt of Grainsby, Lincolnshire, but none of this has been substantiated. If true, however, then Thomas and Anne Leavitt are likely the parents of the New England immigrant, Thomas Leavitt, who signed the compact in Exeter, New Hampshire in 1639, then moved to Hampton.

* Mary, bapt. 22 Dec 1605, m. c. 1630, as his second wife, John WHEELWRIGHT. Wheelwright's first wife, Mary Storre, sister of Augustine, died in 1629, leaving him with three small children. Following his marriage to Mary, the couple had three children baptised in England (one died young) and five more in New England. Wheelwright had been the vicar of the parish church in Bilsby, Lincolnshire for ten years when in 1633 he was released from the position, apparently for simony when he tried to sell his position back to the patron. He may have been trying to gather funds for a trip to New England, but instead was forced to find other employment until he was finally able to emigrate in 1636. Mary's mother, the widowed Susanna Hutchinson, likely sailed to New England with the Wheelwrights, because she lived with this family for the remainder of her life. Once in New England, Wheelwright quickly became embroiled in the events of the Antinomian Controversy that was shaking the foundation of the young Massachusetts colony. When he was banished, and spent the winter of 1637-1638 in southern New Hampshire, Mary, her children, and her mother stayed at their farm in Mount Wollaston, about ten miles south of Boston. They then joined him in the foundling settlement of Exeter, where they stayed for a few years. They were then compelled to move once again, by early 1642, this time to Wells, Maine, and this is where Mary's mother died. This was close to the time that Mary was mentioned in the 1644 will of her brother John. Early in 1647 Wheelwright was given a pastoring position at the church in Hampton (then a part of the Bay Colony), where the family moved next. They were together here as a family for almost ten years, but by 1655 they were back in Mary's home town in England where on 12 December a salary augmentation of £60 was to be granted "to John Wheelwright, minister of Alford, co. Lincoln, who has a great charge of children, beside[s] the £40 already allowed." Upon their return from England in 1662 the family moved to Salisbury, Massachusetts where Wheelwright died in 1679. Mary's death date is not known, other than the fact that she predeceased her husband.

* Edward, bapt. 20 Dec 1607, living in 1669, m. Sarah _______, living in 1669.