Hello, Yesterday I made a spur-of-the-moment decision to go to Probate Court and the Registry of Deeds (same bldg.) in Cambridge to look for 2 things. o I found the "will" of Miss Mary HUTCHINSON of Winchester, and she refers to "her" plot in the cemetery in Winchester, which she was leaving money for (perpetual care and stone). She then left a small amount of money to her friends, and to her cousin, Mrs. George? SPAULDING. The rest of her money was to be "share and share alike" to her "second cousins," John B. HUTCHINSON, Mrs. Mabel SPICER, Mrs. Ruth LYNCH, and the sisters, Miss Edith RICE and Mrs. Louise (RICE) KIDDER. That was the handwritten page. The typed version mentions where the rest of her money went - mostly to pay bills and taxes, etc, and this included the real-estate tax to Winchester. (The "will" of her brother, Thomas HUTCHINSON, who died 3 years before, was "among the missing." (probably mis-filed) ) o With information from my sister, I just went across the building to find the Deeds for the "HUTCHINSON Farm." The "family story" we had heard was that the unmarried siblings, Thomas and Mary HUTCHINSON, had left the Farm to our Great-grandmother in their "wills" - because she was a devoted Caretaker for them. So, I was quite surprised to find out this was not true ! According to a 1937 Deed, the owners of the land and house were: John B. HUTCHINSON, Miss Edith RICE, Miss or Mrs. Ruth LYNCH of NY, and Mrs. Mabel SPICER of CT. And, they are the ones who "granted" the Farm to Mrs. Louise (RICE) KIDDER. We had no idea that Grandma's sister was already a part-owner in the land, and, up until yesterday, I had never heard of Ruth LYNCH and Mabel SPICER. An earlier Deed from 1866 showed that John B. and Ruthy (WYMAN) HUTCHINSON and William and Elizabeth (HUTCHINSON) DODGE, both merchants in Brooklyn, NY, Jacob and Eliza (CROSBY) HUTCHINSON, and Mrs. Gardner SYMMES, and Mrs. Francis JOHNSON (Winchester, MA), were "granting" the land to Thomas O. HUTCHINSON "for $1." Now, we had heard that the "2" HUTCHINSON Farms, bordering each other on opposite sides of Ridge Street were originally owned by William DODGE (brother-in-law) and Thomas O. HUTCHINSON. But, with the above statement, I remembered an old document I have which said : "John HUTCHINSON died in 1819 and willed the farm to his son, Thomas. .... This Thomas died in 1863, and the land was divided among four of his six heirs. ...." This would have been Thomas and Betsey (HOMER) HUTCHINSON (Thomas, b1784), and their married children were: John B. and Ruthy (WYMAN) HUTCHINSON Thomas O. and Mary (MASTERS) HUTCHINSON (brief marr. to Harriett LOCKE) Jacob Homer and Eliza (CROSBY) HUTCHINSON William and Elizabeth DODGE Gardner and Adeline SYMMES Francis and Maria JOHNSON (All died between 1875 and 1910 - some in Winchester.) Jacob and Eliza were my ancestors, and they only had 2 children live to adulthood: George HUTCHINSON and Adelaide Crosby HUTCHINSON. Thomas and Mary lived across the street in late 1800's, and they only had 2 children, Thomas and Mary, who never married (died 1933, 1936). John and Ruthy seem to have lived in Brooklyn, NY, from at least 1860 until the 1880's. I do not know about their children, but the 1870 census showed them with a son, Edward, 27, and a daughter, Sarah, 24. (In 1880 in NY Sarah was still living with them.) William and Elizabeth seem to have lived in Brooklyn, NY, from at least 1860 until the 1880's. The 1860 census has their children as: Elizabeth, 18, Maria, 16, Ann, 12, and Agnes, 2. The 1880 census has Elizabeth and Agnes still living with them. I haven't had time to look for the SYMMES and JOHNSON families in the censuses ! (But, I'm pretty sure that Gardner was related to the "SYMMES Hospital" family.) .. What is very curious to me is why I have never heard of Thomas and Mary's "second cousins," Miss or Mrs. Ruth LYNCH and Mrs. Mabel SPICER. .. Since I have just started looking for the MASTERS family of Mrs. Thomas O. HUTCHINSON (Mary Anna MASTERS), they could be cousins from that family. But, a researcher sent me the 1850 census showing William and Lydia (ROBINSON?) MASTERS and it only shows their daughter, Mary. I know this is a long posting, but I hope it will help someone else. By the way, I received more information on George HUTCHINSON and his son, Carleton HUTCHINSON, yesterday. And, it now appears that Carleton had a son, Leslie HUTCHINSON, who might have spent his life living in Cambridge, dying 1973 ???? ... Betty (near Lowell, MA)