Edward Hutchinson ( captain ) Edward Hutchinson ( 1613 - 1675 ) ( sometimes referred to as " junior " to differentiate him from his uncle ) was the oldest child of Massachusetts and Rhode Island magistrate William Hutchinson and his wife , the dissident minister Anne Hutchinson . He is noted for making peace with the authorities following his mother ' s banishment from Massachusetts during the Antinomian Controversy , returning to Boston , and ultimately dying in the service of the colony that had treated his family so harshly . Born in Alford , in eastern England , Hutchinson sailed to New England at the age of 20 , a year ahead of the remainder of his family . Following the events of the Antinomian Controversy , he , his father , and his uncle Edward were among 23 signers of a compact for a new government which they soon established at Portsmouth on Rhode Island . Young Hutchinson only remained there a short while , and had returned to Boston to occupy the family house . Here he had 11 children with two wives , and became active in the artillery company of the local militia , eventually holding the rank of Captain . He also served as a Deputy to the General Court , and in this capacity voiced his opposition to the persecution of the Quakers that took place in the late 1650s . During King Phillips War , in 1675 , Captain Hutchinson and Captain Thomas Wheeler were given an assignment to negotiate with the Nipmuck Indians to keep them out of the war . While searching for the tribal chief , Muttawmp , the two captains , with a company of men , were ambushed , and both were wounded . Two weeks later Hutchinson died from his wounds , and was interred in a cemetery in Marlborough , Massachusetts . Hutchinson is the ancestor of three United States presidents , as well as the loyalist governor of Massachusetts , Thomas Hutchinson . Early life . Baptized in Alford , Lincolnshire , England on 28 May 1613 , Edward Hutchinson was the son of cloth merchant and magistrate William Hutchinson and his famed wife Anne Hutchinson . Edward was the oldest of the Hutchinson ' s 15 children , and in 1633 when Edward ' s pregnant mother realized that she was going to emigrate from England , she allowed Edward to travel to New England a year ahead of the family , and he sailed aboard the " Griffin " with his uncle Edward Hutchinson ( Sr . ) and wife , also being on the same ship as the Reverend John Cotton who soon became teaching minister in the Boston church . While Edward ' s uncle , Edward , was admitted to the Boston church in 1633 , the young Edward wasn ' t admitted until 10 August 1634 , just about the time that the remainder of the family arrived in Boston from England . In 1636 Hutchinson sailed back to England , and while there he married Katherine Hamby , likely in Lawford in Essex . His father - in - law , Robert Hamby , had been a legal counselor in Ipswich . With his wife , he returned to the colonies later the same year , and it was about this time that his mother became embroiled in the events of the Antinomian Controversy . As the controversy came to a peak , his mother was brought to trial in November 1637 , then sentenced to banishment by the General Court of the colony . She was not allowed to leave , however , until enduring a second trial in March 1638 , this time by the clergy , and she was held in detention in the interim . Many members of the colony who shared the views of Mrs . Hutchinson , including Edward , met on 7 March 1638 to sign a document establishing a new government , and most of the signers left the Massachusetts colony shortly thereafter to go build houses on Aquidneck Island . Edward was one of the few family members who stayed in Boston in March , and was present at his mother ' s church trial , when he argued on her behalf that she should not be condemned for holding opinions in which she was not yet settled . It was then deemed by the church that since he showed natural love for his mother , that he too should be admonished , along with a few others who were also close to Mrs . Hutchinson , and by removing the dissent from the family members , the ministers were able to proceed with the excommunication against her . Hutchinson likely accompanied his mother and siblings from Boston to Aquidneck Island in early April 1638 , and there he became one of the founding settlers of the island community that was initially named Pocasset , but was soon renamed Portsmouth . However , since no charges were ever preferred against him by the Massachusetts authorities , he soon returned to Boston , and he and his young family became the residents and caretakers of the family house there . Ownership of the house went to his uncle , Richard Hutchinson , ironmonger of London , who never came to New England , but had many land and business interests there . Hutchinson ' s mother , Anne Hutchinson , and many of his younger siblings perished in an Indian massacre in New Netherland in August 1643 , and he likely learned of this in early September , about the same time that Governor John Winthrop recorded it in his journal . It is not clear when he learned that one of his siblings survived the attack and was taken hostage , but it was two and a half years after her capture that Winthrop wrote , " A daughter of Mistress Hutchinson was carried away by the Indians near the Dutch . " After several years of living with the Siwanoy natives , Edward ' s young sister Susanna was released in an exchange , and brought back to Boston . While no record has survived detailing which of her siblings took her in , Kirkpatrick believes that it was Edward ' s house where she came to live . Hutchinson ' s wife had seven children before her untimely death about 1650 , and he soon after married the widow Abigail Button . Court records from the time show that in 1656 Abigail testified against Eunice Cole at her witch trial , Cole likely being the only woman convicted of witchcraft in New Hampshire . Later life . In the late 1650s strict laws had been enacted against the Quakers by the Massachusetts colony , but this didn ' t prevent Quaker evangelists from coming into the colony from outside . It was during this period that Hutchinson served for a year as a Deputy to the General Court from Boston , elected in 1658 . While the magistrates were the most zealous enforcers of the laws against the Quakers , the general population was more sympathetic to their plight , and the Deputies , of which Hutchinson was one , made their opposition to the law known . Hutchinson ' s first cousin , 11 - year old Patience Scott , the daughter of Providence Quakers Richard and Katherine Scott , had arrived in Boston unaccompanied . It then became Captain Hutchinson ' s " undertaking to send her home , " and the Court took no action against her . Historian James Savage stated that Hutchinson " deserves honor for his firmness in opposing cruelty to the Quakers , " and he was also tolerant of the Baptists , signing a 1668 petition for the release of those who were imprisoned . In November 1659 , Hutchinson was admitted to an equal share with the seven original purchasers of the Humphrey Atherton land investment company for lands in the " Narragansett Country " ( later North Kingstown , Rhode Island ) , with his share being about 1000 acres . The land was in disputed territory , with the three colonies of Connecticut , Rhode Island and Plymouth all staking claims to the area . Whether Hutchinson actually occupied his land is uncertain , but he and two others were appointed by the Connecticut colony as selectmen to the area which was given the name Wickford in 1663 . Hutchinson ' s youngest living sister , Susanna , with her husband John Cole , left Boston to become caretakers of his property , and they ended up staying there for the remainder of their lives . Hutchinson was active in the militia of the colony , and as early as 1641 he was a junior sergeant of the local artillery company . In 1654 he was given the rank of lieutenant , and three years later in 1657 was elevated to the rank of captain . As a captain in the colonial militia , Hutchinson was called to action during King Philip ' s War in 1675 , and was given command of a company which fell under the overall command of his brother - in - law Thomas Savage . On 28 July 1675 he co - lead an expedition with Captain Thomas Wheeler and a small company of men to negotiate a peace settlement with the Nipmuc sachem Muttawmp . The natives evaded the party , however , until on the 2nd of August , near the town of Brookfield , the captains and their men were ambushed in what became known as Wheeler ' s Surprise . Hutchinson was seriously wounded during the engagement , and Wheeler was also wounded , but the survivors managed to get to a garrison house in Brookfield , where they spent over a week , while being continuously attacked by the natives . With some reinforcements , they eventually escaped from Brookfield , and Wheeler later recounted Hutchinson ' s fate : " We came to Marlborough on August the 14th when Capt . Hutchinson being not recovered of his wounds before his coming from Brookfield , and over - tired with his long journey , by reason of his weakness , soon grew worse , and more dangerously ill , and on the 19th day of the same month , died , and was there the next day after buried . . . " He was buried in the town cemetery , now the Springhill Cemetery , where a marker was later erected in his honor . Commenting on his giving his life for the cause of the Massachusetts colony , historian Oliver Roberts noted that " he , who , with his mother , was persecuted , poured out his blood in the service of that uncharitable country . " Family . Hutchinson had 11 children with two wives . His first wife was Katherine Hamby ( Hanby / Hambie / Hemby ) whom he married shortly after 19 October 1636 ( the date of the marriage license ) , probably at Lawford , Essex , England . Katherine was baptized at St . Matthews parish in Ipswich , Suffolk on 10 December 1615 , the daughter of Robert Hamby and Elizabeth Arnold , her father being a " counsellor at law in Ipswich , in England . " Katherine descends from King Henry I of England ( the son of William the Conqueror ) , Alfred the Great , and King Henry I of France and his wife Anne of Kiev . Of the seven children of Edward and Katherine , Elishua was baptized in Boston on 5 November 1637 and probably died young , and Elizabeth ( 1639 - 1728 ) married Edward Winslow , the son of John Winslow and Mary Chilton , and grandson of Mayflower passenger James Chilton . Elisha ( 1641 - 1717 ) married first Hannah Hawkins , and second Elizabeth ( Clark ) Freak , and had 12 children . Anne ( 1643 - 1717 ) married first Samuel Dyre ( Dyer ) , the son of William Dyer and Mary Barrett , then married second Daniel Vernon , and had a total of 11 children with both husbands . William , baptized 18 January 1645 and Katherine , baptized 14 May 1648 both probably died young . Susanna ( 1649 - after 1716 ) married Nathaniel Coddington , the son of Rhode Island Governor William Coddington and his wife Anne Brinley , and the couple had six known children . Katherine died sometime after 10 June 1649 when her last child was born , but by 1650 when Hutchinson was married to his second wife . His second wife was Abigail ( Fermayes ) Button , the daughter of Alice ( Blessing ) Fermayes ( or Vermais ) , and widow of Robert Button . The oldest child of this marriage was Edward , who was born 4 January 1651 and died unmarried in 1692 . Katherine , born in 1653 , married Henry Bartholomew and was still living about 1730 ; and Benjamin , born at Boston 2 June 1656 probably died young . The youngest child of this marriage was Hannah , born at Boston 16 May 1658 , who married Peter Walker , probably at Taunton ; the couple had six children . Descendants of Hutchinson , through his son Elisha , include United States Presidents Franklin D . Roosevelt , George H . W . Bush and George W . Bush , as well as the loyalist governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay , Thomas Hutchinson .