Gordon Hutchins (1733 - 1815)

Born 1733 in Concord, Merrimack County, New Hampshire

Ancestors

Husband of Dorothy (Stone) Hutchins — married 12 Oct 1757 in Harvard, Worcester Co., Massachusetts

Husband of Lucy Lund — married 1780 in Merrimack, New Hampshire

Descendants

Died 8 Dec 1815 at about age 82 in Concord, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, USA

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Biography

Lieutenant Colonel Gordon Hutchins served with 1st New Hampshire Regiment (1775), Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Gordon Hutchins is an NSSAR Patriot Ancestor.
NSSAR Ancestor #: 189035
Rank: Lieutenant Colonel

"Gording Hutchins and Dolly (Dorothy, int.) Stone, [were married] Oct. 2, 1757" at Harvard, Worcester, Massachusetts.^[1]

The following is from Bartlett, describing his wife, Dorothy Stone Hutchins;

Dorothy (or Dolly), b. abt. 1737; m. at Harvard, 12 Oct. 1757, Col. Gordon Hutchins, born in Exeter, N. H., in 1733, son of William and Bethia (Carleton) Hutchins. They lived in Harvard until 1772 and then removed to Concord, N. H., where she d. 17 Dec., 1777; later he removed to Pembroke, Coventry. Haverhill, and Rumney, all in New Hampshire, and finally returned to Concord, N. H., where he d. 8 Dec. 1815. He was a merchant, a soldier in the French and Indian Wars, and successively captain, lieut.-colonel, and colonel in the Revolution. Children (Hutchins):

1. Ephraim, b. 16 Jan. 1758, d. 7 Jan. 1761.

2. Levi, b. 17 Aug. 1761.

3. Abel, b. 16 Mar. 1763.

4. Bethia, b. 29 Aug. 1765.

5. A child, b. and d. 4 Sept. 1768.

6. Ezra, b. 26 May 1770.

7. Pamelia, b. 31 July 1772.

8. Matilda, b. 11 Sept. 1777.^[2]

Research Notes

The following quotation differs from this profile in the name of his father:

Col. GORDON HUTCHINS. Gordon Hutchins was a son of Ephraim Hutchins, and born at Exeter in 1733. At about the age of 13, he accompanied his father, who commanded a company in the expedition against Louisbourg, in the capacity of waiter ; but subsequently, held a lieutenancy in the army. Returning from the war,he married and settled in Harvard, Mass. ; from which place, in 1773, he removed to Concord. On hearing of the battle of Lexington, Lt. Hutchins repaired to Cambridge ; and soon afterwards, enlisted a company, which served an eight months' campaign. In 1777, on learning the perilous situation of the northern frontiers, Capt. Hutchins, who had again been at Cambridge, returning on a Sunday morning, entered the meeting-house ; addressed the minister, (Mr. Walker,) and after briefly stating the intelligence he had received respecting the situation of the northern armies, urged his fellow-citizens to volunteer in defence of their country. The appeal was seconded by their worthy and patriotic pastor, and a company of about thirty men was enrolled, and with them, he sat out on the following morning. Before their arrival at Bennington, Stark had immortalized himself, and averted the threatened danger; but they had the satisfaction to witness the surrender of Burgoyne and his army at Saratoga. Previous to this, Capt. Hutchins had been at White-Plains, where he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. From Saratoga, Col. Hutchins returned to domestic life, and died at Concord, December 8th, 1815, aged 82 years. He married two wives, and by them had twenty children.^[3]

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Sources

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• Byam, Edwin Colby. Jack Hutchins, ed. Descendants of John Hutchins of Newbury and Haverhill, Massachusetts. Rockville, MD: Hutchins, 1975. pp 39-42.

1. ↑ Harvard (Mass.) Vital records of Harvard, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 [Wright & Potter printing company] Boston, Mass. 1917. Accessed at Open Library on 4 May 2016 (http://openlibrary.org/books/OL23357105M/Vital_records_of_Harvard_Massachusetts_to_the_year_1850.) Page 185
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Bartlett, J. Gardner, "Ancestry and Descendants of Dea. Gregory Stone of Cambridge, Mass. 1320-1917", Boston, Stone Family Asso., 1917, page 182, Google Books
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Moore, Jacob B., "Historical Sketch of Concord, in the county of Merrimack, N. H.", Collections of the New Hampshire Historical Society for the Year 1824, Concord, Jacob B. Moore, 1824, page 212, Google Books

• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 2022-04-01), "Record of Gordon Hutchins", Ancestor # A061126.

• Documents Relating to Towns in New Hampshire (1867-); Vol. 14