Update: I may have found the parents of Ann Simpson. Father Arthur Simpson, Mother Mary Ester Tilton. Looks like this family is a Monmouth Co NJ family.
Sometimes I am amazed at how much bum information gets tied into our ancestor's stories. One such case was my 7th great-grandmother Ann Simpson.
After years of searching for a record to prove where researchers found the maiden name of Simpson, using a tool many genealogists are not aware of "The Wayback Machine" which archives old websites, I was able to access my deceased cousin Richard S Hutchinson's website, long removed from the Internet is this statement:
Source via Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20101002020619/http://www.richardshutchinson.com/
"In the Will of Dorothy Newberry, widow of Richard Newberry, carpenter, of the City of Philadelphia, PA, dated 7 April 1731/2, proved 1 June 1731, Book E-Page 163, comes the following abstracted material - "sisters - Catherine Stout, Anne Hutchinson; brothers - William and Peter Simpson; cousins - John and Haskar Newberry; friends - Jenkin Jones, Jane Pearce; nurse - Alice Haig; brother-in-law: William Hutchinson; executrix-Anne Hutchinson; trustee- Jenkin Jones; witnesses- John Kearsley, Jno. Cadwalder." [PA Wills - 1682-1834].
Her place of birth has been listed as Rhode Island. I can find no record of that. In the source noted above, the same person who stated she was a Simpson stated she was from Long Island, not Rhode Island. That is a much better fit with all the New Jersey connections.
After additional research, I found where the Vohn middle name came from and it does not belong to this Ann Simpson. From Charles Frederick Gross, Cincinnati The Queen City 1788-1912, Vol. 4 (Cincinnati: S.J.Clark Publishing Company, 1912), 148, [HathiTrust] via website: https://www-personal.umich.edu/~bobwolfe/gen/mn/m3137x3138.htm
"There are reports [likely wrong] that Ann was born in Amsterdam, Holland. "William Hutchinson was born in 1695, and his wife, whose maiden name was Ann Von, was born March 6, 1700. She was a native of Amsterdam, Holland, and at the age of six years was kidnapped and brought to America. There is speculation that she is of royal lineage. They were married in 1723. Ann Von was born on March 6, 1700, in Amsterdam, Holland. When a child of six years, she was kidnapped and brought to America."
This claim has been proven wrong and she was not a Vohn nor did she have a middle name Vohn.
Ann Simpson. She lived 101 years, 9 months, and seven days. You can see her tombstone at Find A Grave https://www.findagrave.com/.../30304729/ann-vohn-hutchinson
