This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hutchinson, Homer, Blackington Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AFB.2ACE/1837.1 Message Board Post: Hi David. I have a copy of that book. I cannot comment on the accuracy of the information in it ! But, I can say that the genealogy part of it is difficult to understand sometimes ! For instance, in the HUTCHINSON section, it lists a paragraph under .. 4. Thomas, son of John (2), and included in the paragraph is a statement on the Thomas HUTCHINSON who married Betsey BLACKINGTON of West Cambridge in 1823. And, then it says Betsey B., w. of Thomas, d. 1835, Age 41. The average person would think that Betsey HOMER was the first wife of Thomas HUTCHINSON from 1813 marriage, and that Betsey BLACKINGTON was his second wife ! But, this is not true ! (I don't have my notes handy, but Mrs. Betsey (HOMER) HUTCHINSON lived long after 1835 ! Possibly into 1850's !) There are other examples in the genealogy section where people with the same name .. are grouped into one paragraph - where they might not necessarily be directly related ! (From memory, I think I read that the Thomas HUTCHINSON who married Betsey BLACKINGTON was born in NH.) Betty (near Lowell, MA) FYI: Thomas and Betsey (HOMER) HUTCHINSON were my ancestors, through their son, Jacob Homer HUTCHINSON. And, Jacob and his brother, Thomas O. HUTCHINSON, owned the adjoining HUTCHINSON Farms in Winchester during the 1800's !