Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-11-12
A ROMANCE or LONG AGO.
Peggy Hutchinson'sN dnirer of Noble
Birth Who Was Turned Away,

Peggy Hutchinsom's Almirer of Noble
Birth Who Was Turned Away.
Among the thousands of documents
stored in the state house in Boston. |
Mass, are three letters and part of a
journal that outline romance of the
days when Massachusetts was prov
ince governed by Thomas Hutchinson.
1t is a story that has not been known
to the world and not even to the per-
sonal friends of those interested. The
characters in this romance are titled
lover, father who refused his sane
ton to proposed marriage, and New
England maiden who died in ignorance
of both the love and the lovers vain
plea. Some letters are missing
The first document in the story is
letter to Gov. Hutchinson, dated April 6,
1871. The writer was William, son of
Lord Fitzwillam, and in this letter he
recites his love for the governors
daughter, telling his story with old
time courtesy. He says: II have had
the honor of seeing Miss Hutchinson,
| but have never spoken to her. need
not tell you admire her when l say that
l wish to call her mine.'' The lover
pleads for the fathers consent to visit
the daughter, "as the most honorable
method of proceeding to get acquaint-
ed with her" Gov. lIutchinson's meth
odical reply, in duplicate, in his own
cramped handwriting, is preserved. In
it he says:
"In my station should, from respect
to my Lord Fitzwilliam, think it my
duty to do all in my power to discour-
age his son from so unequal a match
with any person in the province, and
should most certainly be highly Grim
| inal if l should countenance or encour-
age match with my own daughter
trust you will think this a sufficient
reason for my not acceding to your
proposal, and sincerely wish you
happy in a person more suited to your
birth and rank, and who may be APP
proved of by your honorable parent"
AT this point there is gap in the
story. The young man evidently wrote
a second time, but neither the sec
ond letter nor the governors reply is
in the archives. 1t is certain, though,
that the governor did not relent, and
in third letter the young man craved
a personal interview, as the ship to
which he was attached, the Boston, was
to sail that day, not, as he says, "that
l shall desire you to give me the least
encouragement with regard to my for
mer letter, but as think it necessary
| to wait on YOU" There is no record of
the interview, but it must have been
sad one if held, for the governor was
kind-hearted man.
The beautiful Miss Hutchinson for
whose hand the young man was suing
was the governors second daughter,
Margaret, of whom the father always
| speaks in his letters and journal as
Peggy" Peggy was but II years old
when the letter was written, and she
died of consumption at Chelsea, Eng
land when she was 90. The delicate
beauty which young William admired
SO much arose partly from her con-
sumptive tendencies. For several years
the family was in England. According
to the fathers journal he called upon
the queen on August %, 1777. "The
queen asked where l had BEEN" he
writes, "anl l told her had been six
months in the country with my sick
daughter. The queen expressed the
hope that she would soon recover" But
Peggy died on the 2lst of the follow
ing month. Almost on that date her fla
ther wrote in his diary that her ma
jesty's ship, the Boston, was again on
the Massachusetts coast. There is
nothing in any of the governors jour
nails to show that Peggy was ever told
of young Fitzwilliams love for her, and
nothing to show that the young man
ever saw the girl of his early love after
the father had crushed hope out OF his
heart.-N Y. Sun.
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