The featured speaker on Saturday, February 11, 2006, at the Sudbury Senior Center, 40 Fairbank Road, Sudbury, MA will be Elna Headberg, lecturer, family historian and secretary of the Middlesex Chapter of the Massachusetts Society of Genealogists, Inc. Elna's topic will be Anne Hutchinson: The Marlborough Connection. Anne Hutchinson (1591-1643) was a Puritan, a religious pioneer and some believe she was a forerunner of the women's liberation movement. So why did Governor John Winthrop, in 1638, order her banished from the Mass Bay Colony as a woman not fit for society? If so, then why is there a bronze statue of her outside the State House in Boston, MA today? And what is Anne Hutchinson's connection to Marlborough, MA? These matters and more will be revealed by Ms. Headberg along with the use of overheads pictures and a brief video presention. The meeting starts at 1:30 p.m. and concludes at 4:00 p.m. Refreshments will be served. The meeting is free and the public is welcome to attend. Directions: From Route 128, exit Weston/Marlboro onto Route 20 West, thru Weston, Wayland to Sudbury. Turn Right at traffic lights Rte.20 and Concord Road. (Goodnow Library is on Concord Road.) Travel two miles on Concord Road to intersection of Sudbury Center. Move into Left lane approaching traffic light. Take Left onto Hudson Road, Sudbury and travel one mile. Right side, sign says FAIRBANK COMMUNITY CENTER. Turn Right onto Fairbank Road, and park in lot for Sudbury Senior Center. From Route 20 heading East to Sudbury, pass Shaws Supermarket and Sudbury Farms on right side of Boston Post Road (aka Rte 20). Approaching traffic lights, stay in Left lane: Mobile Gas Station at lefthand corner. Bear Left at Union Ave. Union Ave will converge into Concord Road (about one mile ahead). Follow directions above along Concord Road to traffic lights at Sudbury Center intersection. Also please note: In the event of major snow or ice storms meetings will be cancelled. We notify libraries before noontime when we must cancel.

" Anne Hutchinson (1591-1643) was a Puritan, a religious pioneer and some believe she was a forerunner of the women's liberation movement. So why did Governor John Winthrop, in 1638, order her banished from the Mass Bay Colony as a woman not fit for society? If so, then why is there a bronze statue of her outside the State House in Boston, MA today? And what is Anne Hutchinson's connection to Marlborough, MA?" The oldest known grave in Marlborough, exists in the Springhill Burial Grounds It is that of Captain Edward Hutchinson, born May 28, 1613 in Alford Lincolnshire England. He was the son of William Hutchinson, born 1586 in England and died 1642 in Boston, Massachusetts and Anne Marbury born Alford Lincolnshire, England and died August 20, 1643 in New York N.Y.. He, along with his parents came to the New World in 1634 aboard the "Griffen". He married Katherine Hamby on October 13, 1636 in Ipswich, Suffolk England. Edward had gained the Rank of Captain during those early times. It was Saturday July 17, 1675, the morning after Captain Hutchinson returned with his troops from a skirmish with the Indians......... For the rest of the story go here>>>>> http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~historyofmarlborough/hutchinson.htm