Better known by her married name, Anne Hutchinson, she was the religious leader who founded the state of Rhode Island.

     Anne was raised as an educated woman in England and spoke out against the politics of the church.  She spent a year in jail for expressing her views.  At 21 she was married, and her parents as well as herself and her husband began to follow the Puritans and eventually moved to the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

     In Massachusetts Bay she again was in trouble.  She felt that the religious environment was too stifling and did not support the religious freedom that she had been seeking.  She claimed religious vision and said that she had known ahead of time that the families decision to move to Massachusetts Bay had been a bad decision.  She began to have meetings with women where they discussed religion.  At the time, women were considered inferior minds and were not allowed to have meetings outside of the leadership of men.

    Anne was thrown out of the Colony.  She and some of her followers moved to the island of Aquidneck.  Subsequently her husband died and a year after that she, her servants, and most of her children were killed by Native Americans in East Chester, New York.

    Anne is considered to be one of America's first feminist leaders and one of America's important religious leaders.  More about her can be found at the Anne Hutchinson website.

Below is a commonly published genealogy with some explanation of what is wrong with it.  Anne Hutchinson is not a direct ancestor of the Cactus.  She is as best a great aunt of some sort, though even that seems doubtful.

William Hutchinson (1586 - abt. 164) & Anne Marbury

Katherine (Katherene) Hutchinson (1629 - 1643) & John Walker (abt. 1599, Eng. - 1647)

     Katherine came from the community that went with Anne Hutchinson when she was banished from Massachusetts Bay.  However, she was definitely not the daughter of William & Anne Hutchinson.  It is unclear whether her last name was Hutchinson.  If it was, she was probably the daughter of one of William's brothers.  Detailed source references can be found on this genealogy forum comment.

      It is clear however that Katherine was the wife of John Walker and had the daughter shown below.

From here through the next note all resided in Rhode Island.

Mary Walker (1650 - 1718) & William Earle (abt. 1634 - 1715)

Mary Earle (1655 - 1734) & John Borden (1640 - 1716)

Richard Borden (1671 - 1732) & Innocent Wadell (1676)

     I am finding nothing definitive about whether Richard Borden married Innocent Wadell (daugher of Gersham Wadell and Mary Tripp) or Innocent Cornell (daughter of Thomas Cornell and Sarah Earle).  I am changing my personal file in favor of Innocent Cornell because the only on-line reference I found that showed references went with her.

Sarah Borden (1694 - unk.) & Robert Hazard (1689 - 1762)

     Many, many listing on the internet show Sarah Borden as having died at age two weeks and also as having been the wife of Robert Hazard.  Ut, oh.  The good news is that it appears that the death date is wrong and that the marriage is correct.  The Rhode Island Historical Society Manuscripts Division has the Robert Hazard Papers, and that organization states that Sarah Borden is the mother of Robert Hazard's children.

Mary Hazard (1716 - 1773) - Stephen Champlin (1710 - 1771)

Sarah Champlin (b. 1737) - Samuel Congdon (1733 - 1813)

Stephen Congdon (1764 - 1820) & Martha Peckham (b. 1768)

     The genealogy of Mary Hazard through Stephen Congdon is well documented through the efforts of those wishing to document the descendents of the Hazard family.  However, since at this point the family line moves from Rhode Island to Connecticut, this line of documentation stops here, simply noting that the couple had two children.

     Stephen Congdon moved from Rhode Island to Connecticut; Martha Peckham was from Connecticut.

Martha Peckham Congdon (1808 - 1869) & George Gorham (1809 - 1836)

Charles Miner Gorham (1831 - 1912) & Sarah Stoddard Holt (1826 - 1867)

     I am working on confirmation of the Charles Miner Gorham / Sarah Stoddard Holt marriage.  Charles' wife was definitely named Sarah and many, many secondary sources state Sarah Stoddard Holt, but I have no primary verification of that.

     This family moved from Connecticut to San Francisco, California.

etc.

When I was searching for a link to the Bush family, the only link I found was to Anne Hutchinson.  As the Cactus's link to Anne Hutchinson has been disproven, there is still no known link to the Bush family. Nontheless, it is noted that the Bushes are descended from Anne Hutchinson's son Edward Hutchinson through the 41st President's grandfather, Samuel Prescott Bush.

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