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                   Ancestral File Number: 4JF3-XS
REFN: 146
Katherine also sometimes spelled Catharine
HUTSON also spelled HUTSOUN.

She was previously married to Robert Shorthus or Shorthose who lived inCharlestown during the time period 1634-1638. The name Shorthouse iscommon in English records during the 1500's and 1600's. This nameoccurs near where the Smedley's grew up and it is possible thatKatherine knew Baptist Smedley earlier before she left England. It isalso possible that Baptist Smedley, upon his arrival in America, wentfirst to Charlestown and met her and her husband there.?The NEGH Register for October 1935 has an article about a letter from awoman in Hempstead, New York to her attorney in Charlestown,Massacusetts concerning the disposal of a house there, The house wasowned by Dr. Thomas Starr and passed through inheritance to his widowRachael Starr. The letter, written September 5, 1666, says to "SellStarr house or let it out for rent...lett my Aunt Smedley have the refusalof it, for if shee will give anything likely I had rather shee had it ratherthan another..."