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It has been alleged that the name of Richard Maxson's wife was Rebecca Marbury. There is no known evidence to support this. We don't even know if the given name of Richard Maxson's wife was Rebecca -- there isn't any record that gives her name. And we have no way of knowing if her surname was Marbury. Furthermore, there is no reason to think that Francis Marbury (the father of Anne Hutchinson) had a daughter Rebecca.
There seems to be no connection via the Marbury or Hutchinson family trees, which are well documented- nor via Rev. Francis Marbury's first wife, Elizabeth Moore.
It may have been that the Maxsons were simply of like religious mind and ended up accompaning Anne Hutchinson on her journey to Portsmouth, RI and eventually to Eastchester, NY. where they both [?] died at the hands of the local American natives in 1643.
The sale in Portsmouth RI of land to her seems to address her as simply "Goodwife Maxson".
"Rebecca Marbury" should not be attached as the the daughter of Francis Marbury or unless there is some documentary evidence to support such connections.
In 1990 Mildred Chamberlain and Laura Clarenbach concluded that both John Maxson and Rebecca Mosure were children of Richard Maxson, and that John Harndell must have married the widow of Richard Maxson [Desc. of Hugh Mosher and Rebecca Maxson through 7 generations, pp. 1-3.][1]
Richard Maxson and his wife are believed to have come to Boston in 1634 on board the ship "Griffin". Richard was a follower, and his wife, possibly a relative, [not sister] of the religious dissenter Anne Hutchinson who also came on the Griffin.
Richard joined the Church in Boston. On 2 Oct 1634, "Richard Magson servant to our brother James Everill," was admitted to Boston church [BChR 18].
When Anne Hutchinson was banished from Boston, the Maxson family went with her to Rhode Island. They were granted 36 acres of land in Newport and additional land in Portsmouth (Pocasset), where they were some of the original settlers. [2]
On 7 Feb. 1639 Richard, while a blacksmith in Portsmouth, was accused of "oppression by way of his trade" (profiteering) and "promised amendment and satisfaction."[3]
He sold their property in Rhode Island to William Roulston in 1642, but followed Anne Hutchinson to Long Island Sound before he received payment for the property. They were part of the first settlers of Throgs Neck, then called "Maxson's Point," on the north shore of Long Island Sound, in the present county of Westchester, NY.
The family lived near what is now Pelham Bay and peacefully traded with the Indians until Kieft's War of 1643. The local Indians stopped trading with the settlement and used as their excuse that they were afraid of the unconfined dogs. They then attacked the settlement and massacred many townsmen.
Richard and his family escaped by boat, but he and Richard Jr. went back ashore for supplies and were killed. Rebecca and her two remaining children made it back to Rhode Island, where in 1644 she received money from William Roulston for the property he purchased of them in 1642.
Rebecca Maxson [Mosher], daughter of Richard Maxson, blacksmith, [testified that] her father had been killed by the Indians, while she and her brother John Maxson were still infants and her mother had later married John Harndell.[4]
She married (2) by 1647 John Harndell (Mary, daughter of 'John Harndell,' born at Newport 6 Jul 1647 [RIVR 7:64]).
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Rebecca Ann HUTCHINSON, d/o Cuthbert & Mary (de Neville) EYRE HUTCHINSON; born 02 Jul 1604 Saint Margaret, Durham, Durham, England; married first Richard MAXSON 02 Jan 1627 in London, England; married second John HARNDELL/HARNDALL after 1643 - they had a child Mary born 06 Jul 1647.
In addition she was not the wife of Richard Maxson Objections to disconnecting?
The Hutchinson family sailed from London in 1634 with other Christians from Alford. One hundred passengers were crammed on the 'Griffin.' By God's goodness, they survived the stormy 3,000 mile sea journey. When they arrived, on September 18, 1634, John Cotton was there to meet them.
Were Richard and his wife friends of the Marbury/Hutchinson family or related in some way? At least, they were apparently part of the group of Christians who chose to go with them to America and were or became closely tied to Anne Marbury Hutchinson and followed her to the end.
The Alford Facebook page gives a nice summary of the Griffins passage in 1634: Anne was devoted to God. She was helped in her spiritual journey by John Cotton, who was a pastoral leader in Boston.
I have found only one marriage record for Richard Megson, who married Anne Hodgson at Covenham St. Mary, Lincolnshire, 22 May 1627. In searching for a birth record for Anne Hodgson, there is one for Anne Hodgson, daughter of William Hodgson, baptised 1 August 1602, at Hogsthorpe, Lincolnshire.