Amy (Godfrey) Hutchings (1693 - 1763)

Born 1693 in Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia

Ancestors

Wife of John Hutchings — married 1710 in Virginia Colony

Descendants

Died 15 Feb 1763 at about age 70 in Norfolk, Virginia

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Biography

Amy (Godfrey) Hutchings was a Virginia colonist.

Amy Godfrey was born in 1693 in Norfolk County, Virginia. She married John Hutchings. Parents of Christopher and Mary. Amy died 15 Feb 1763 at Norfolk, Virginia.

Family

Daniel Hutchings, mariner, of Norfolk county, and grandson of John Hutchings, of "Pembroke Tribe," Bermuda, was born in 1691 and died in April, 1768. He was an eminent merchant of Norfolk; was mayor of the borough in 1737, 1743 and 1755; and burgess from 1738 to 1756. He married Amey, daughter of John Godfrey, of Norfolk, and had issue John, Jr. (q. v.), Joseph (q. v.), Elizabeth married Richard Kelsick, Mary Married Dr. John Ramsay, Frances married Charles Thomas, and Susanna married Edward Champion Travis.^[1]

Death and Burial

Amy Godfrey Hutchings

BIRTH 1693 Norfolk City, Virginia, USA DEATH 15 Feb 1763 (aged 69–70) Norfolk City, Virginia, USA BURIAL Saint Pauls Episcopal Churchyard Norfolk, Norfolk City, Virginia, USA MEMORIAL ID 38728502 · View Source Amy was a d/o John Godfrey and Mary Nichols. She was married to Col. John Hutching. ^[2]

"Thomas Newton (1713-1794) —the first of three of this name—mayor in 1747, vestryman in 1755, was married to Amy Hutchings, daughter of Colonel John Hutchings and his wife who was Amy Godfrey.' ' The latter's most interesting tombstone can still be seen in the churchyard, giving her husband's name and the fact that she was daughter of John and Mary Godfrey. She died on 15 February 1763 in her seventieth year, which means she was born about 1693/4; thus her presence here takes us back to the very beginnings of Norfolk history (her father's first grant was in 1695/6) and hers is the only grave of such an early settler which has survived.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Under the Editorial ..., Volume 1 edited by Lyon Gardiner Tyler
2. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #38728502
3. ↑ [https://archive.org/details/historyoflowerti01whic/page/401 History of Lower Tidewater Virginia by Whichard, Rogers Dey]

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genealogy Ancestors

• Amy Godfrey Hutchings

• Amy or Anne Hutchings (Godfrey)

• Capt. John & Amy Godfrey Hutchings

• Amy GODFREY