Hello, My HUTCHINSON ancestors before me, for several generations, and my sister and I have tried to learn more about the two HUTCHINSON Farms in Winchester, MA. My sister and I - only when we have time ! I dabbled in the research last week and over the weekend, and tried to get the Census information and summarize it ! I know that the HUTCHINSON's were on these Farms throughout the 1800's and possibly from the 1700's, and family members continued to live on the Farms up near 1910 for one farm and up to 1960 for the other farm (19 and 21 Ridge St., at the intersection with Hutchinson Road). So, I was quite surprised when I couldn't find the HUTCHINSON's living on the Farms in ..1900.. ! I checked some more and found out one brother, Jacob, and his wife, Eliza, had died during the 1890's ! And, their adult-children who lived with them probably couldn't afford to maintain the large farm, so they moved to Arlington ! (Two IRWIN brothers seem to have moved there just prior to 1910.) I checked further and found Mrs. Mary HUTCHINSON (wife of Thomas O.), and their 2 adult children living on High St., in .. Westford ! I found this very strange ! Adding to the confusion was that there is no High Street in Westford ! Mrs. HUTCHINSON was living right next door to a very large LOCKE family (8 children, 5 servants). So, I posted a query on the LOCKE List and a person who researches these LOCKE's in Arlington and Winchester wrote to tell me this is a major mistake ! That LOCKE family and Mrs. HUTCHINSON were living on High Street in ..Winchester.. in 1900 ! (High St. runs off of Ridge St., so it was very near the HUTCHINSON Farms.)* So, I wanted to alert researchers that not all Census information you read is correct ! I access the HeritageQuest Census data through my Library ! The LOCKE researcher got his Census data from another source ! Betty (near Lowell, MA) FYI: A quick summary of the families I'm discussing is that: Thomas HUTCHINSON and Betsey HOMER (of Arlington and Winchester) had several children, including 2 sons, Jacob Homer and Thomas Oliver HUTCHINSON. During most of the later 1800's, Jacob and Eliza (CROSBY) HUTCHINSON lived on one farm and Thomas and Mary (MASTERS) HUTCHINSON lived on the other farm (across the street from each other - Thomas' farm was much larger). Jacob and Eliza only had 2 children, a son, George HUTCHINSON and a daughter, Adelaide Crosby HUTCHINSON, my great-great-grandmother, born on farm in 1851. Thomas and Mary HUTCHINSON only had 2 children, Thomas Masters HUTCHINSON and Mary A. HUTCHINSON. (Thomas O. HUTCHINSON had a very brief marriage to Harriett LOCKE; she died in 1848, and he then married Mary MASTERS in 1851.) (By the way, Mrs. Betsey (HOMER) HUTCHINSON didn't die until 1858. So, the researchers having Thomas HUTCHINSON with a second wife are incorrect. It was another Thomas HUTCHINSON who married Betsy BLACKINGTON (sp?) (don't have my notes handy).) My gr-gr-grandmother, Adelaide HUTCHINSON, married Charles W. RICE from Maine, and they had 2 daughters, Louise and Edith. We knew that they "separated" at some point, but the 1880 census has Mrs. RICE and her young daughters living in her parents' home (HUTCHINSON Farm). My great-grandmother, Mrs. Louise (RICE) KIDDER, had also separated from her husband. Around 1915-1920, he returned to his hometown of Princeton, ME, near Calais, ME, and remained there until his death in 1943. She became a single-parent of 3 school-age children. At some point she became the housekeeper and caregiver of two siblings, Thomas M. HUTCHINSON and Miss Mary HUTCHINSON. I am told that they never married ! So, when Mary died in 1936, she left the farm to my great-grandmother ! It was a very large farm, and an old (not well built) Farmhouse with not very many amenities. So, she and her disabled son had trouble maintaining it ! My father moved his young family into the farmhouse in 1946. I lived there for 7 years ! My great-grandmother died in 1958, and my "Uncle Clinton" was forced to sell the large farm in 1960. "Within months" - the farmhouse came down, and the building of a large subdivision of fancy houses began ! And, part of the farm was across the street, and that is where St. Eulalia's Church was built !! I don't know how long the IRWIN family kept the other HUTCHINSON Farm, possibly up to the 1960's or 1970's ! The last time I drove through that neighborhood .. the Farmhouse was still there, but most of the land had been sold off ... for a large subdivision of new, fancy houses !