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Excerpt from A Genealogy of the Hutchinson Family of Yorkshire, and of the American Branch of the Family: Descended From Richard Hutchinson, of Salem, Mass The antiquity of the family of Hutchinson in England is very great. Its origin has been assigned to one Uitonensis, said to have been a Norwegian, and to have come from Normandy with William the Conqueror. This statement, however, rests upon the barest tradition, and as there are no records or evidences concerning the family for a period of more than two hundred years immediately succeeding the conquest, it would be impossible, even if it were desirable, to claim that somewhat mythical personage as the founder of the race. The first positive date that may be relied upon in the history of the family is the 10th Edward I. (1282), when, according to evidences extant about 1640, it was represented by Barnard Hutchinson, of Cowlam, in the county of York, and, as he must have been then advanced in life, it is certain that we may now (1867) trace the family back through a period embracing more than six centuries. The authority for the first six descents rests with Sir Henry St. George, Garter King of Arms, who sometime before his death (which occurred in 1644) prepared a pedigree of the family, which, with subsequent additions, remained in the possession of the successive heirs until the present century, and was printed in the quarto edition of the Life of Col. John Hutchinson, published in 1806. So far as the present writer has been able to investigate that pedigree, he has found it strictly accurate, and it is therefore adopted without hesitation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.