Enoch Hutchins
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Enoch Hutchins (abt. 1641 - 1698)

Enoch Hutchins
Born about in Devon, Englandmap [uncertain]
Ancestors ancestors
Son of [uncertain] and [mother unknown]
Husband of — married 5 Apr 1667 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshiremap
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 57 in Kittery, York, Massachusetts Bay Colonymap
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Biography

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Enoch Hutchins was born in England.

The first record of Enoch Hutchins in the New World is prior to June 1652 when he was transported to Maryland by William Ayres, a gentleman from Nancemond County, Virginia. Mr. Ayres came to Maryland in May 1651, and Enoch probably arrived at that time. In 1655, Enoch Hutchinson and 45 other people were transported to Virginia by William Wright, also of Nancemond County. Enoch probably completed his seven years service and left Virginia. A New England reference book reportedly states that his possessions were taken to Portsmouth, New Hampshire by John Hutchins in 1659 but the original source has not been located. Enoch, progenitor of the Hutchins family in York, appears first in Maine records as a signer of the Kittery Petition in 1662. Enoch and John Hutchins settled at Spruce Creek, Kittery, in 1667 and were among the first settlers there.

He was a farmer and a surveyor. At the time of his death Enoch owned three houses and a hundred acre farm

From Minerdecent.com: [1]

Enoch Hutchins bought of Thomas Withers, 7 July 1675, a tract of land “the one end facing upon Spruce Cricke, being twenty foure pooles in breadth, & runneng up by a brooke on the South side of It, one hundred & sixty pooles.” It thus contained twenty-four acres. Its location is more definitely stated in Hutchins’ will, wherein he speaks of his Garrison house and “about thirty acres more or less fronting the maine Creeck Bounded in breadth by Rowland Williams and Martins Cove.” This was in 1693. He built a garrison house and lived there the rest of his life, Enoch Hutchins was killed by Indians in his own door, 9 May 1698, and his wife, who was Mary Stevenson of Dover, was carried into captivity. This seems to locate Hutchins’ lot between Peter Lewis on the north and Nicholas Weeks and John Phoenix on the south, at Martin’s Cove, just south of Pine Point.

He was killed by Indians at Spruce Creek, near Oyster River Plantation (Kittery, York County, Maine.) as he was at work in his field, and 3 of his sons carried away. Tradition says the wife of Hutchins was also taken, but she was back in time to show his estate to appraisers on 7 June 1698.[2] Apparently she kept house for the next thirty years for Rowland Williams, for she billed his estate for this care after his death. Benjamin returned from Canada before May 29, 1701. Samuel returned in January 1699, and Jonathan returned in 1705.

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Sources

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  2. York County, Maine Probate Records, No. 1, 1687-1707, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89JS-L9ZS-C  : 6 April 2021), FHL microfilm 007600380, image 60-63.
  • Passenger List: "U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s"
    Place: Maryland; Year: 1652; Page Number: 248
    Ancestry Record 7486 #1338206 (accessed 25 January 2024)
    Name: Enoch Hutchins; Arrival Year: 1652; Arrival Place: Maryland; Primary Immigrant: Hutchins, Enoch; Source Publication Code: 8510; Annotation: Index from manuscript by Arthur Trader, Chief Clerk in the Maryland Land Commission, 1917. And see nos. 4507-4511, Land Notes.; Source Bibliography: SKORDAS, GUST, editor. The Early Settlers of Maryland: an Index to Names of Immigrants, Compiled from Records of Land Patents, 1633-1680, in the Hall of Records, Annapolis, Maryland. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1968. 525p. Repr. 1986.;
    Household Members (Name):
    Enoch Hutchins.
  • Marriage: "The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1847-2011"
    Original data: New England Historic Genealogical Society. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston: The New England Historic Genealogical Society
    Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 2129 #178325 (accessed 25 January 2024)
    Enoch Hutchins marriage to Mary Steevenson on 5 Apr 1667 in New Hampshire, USA.
  • Stackpole, Everett S., Lucien Thompson and Winthrop S. Meserve, History of the town of Durham, New Hampshire (Oyster River Plantation) with genealogical notes, Durham N.H., Pub. by vote of the town, 1913, 2 vol.
  • Stackpole, Everett S. Old Kittery and Her Families, Lewiston, ME., Lewiston Journal Co., 1903.
  • Bradbury, Charles. History of Kennebunk Port, from its first discovery by Bartholomew Gosnold, May 14, 1602, to A.D. 1837, Kennebunk, ME., n.p., 1837.
  • Noyes,Sybil, Charles T. Libby and Walter G. Davis, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire Southworth Press, Portland, ME, 1928-1939. 5 Vol.
  • Hutchins, Jack Randolph, and Richard Jasper Hutchings. Hugh Hutchins of Old England: The History of the Hutchins Families of the Old and New Worlds. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1984.
  • Maine Genealogical Society, comp. Maine Families in 1790. Vol. 5. Camden, ME: Picton Press, 1996.
  • The Maine Genealogist Vol. 23, #4,
  • Historical Society of Wells and Ogunquit, Waves & Furrows, Vol. 14 pg 11
  • Link to Minersdecent.com [2]
  • Hugh Hutchins of Old England", by Jack Randolph Hutchins and Richard Jasper Hutchings, pg 684
  • 1688 Census: "Maine, U.S., Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1800-1890"
    Original data: Jackson, Ron V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp.. Maine Census, 1800-1890. Compiled and digitized by Mr. Jackson and AIS from microfilmed schedules of the U.S. Federal Decennial Census, territorial/state censuses, and/or census substitutes; Page number: 351
    Ancestry Record 3551 #12445274 (accessed 25 January 2024)
    Enock Hutchings in Kittery, York, Maine.




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Added sources for indian attack and tracts of Land. Enjoy! :)
posted by Lissa (Rosa) Debrees
This branch of the Hutchins family usually used the spelling "Hutchings".

An extensive secondary source for Enoch Hutchings II is “Enoch Hutchings of Kittery: A Genealogy of the Family of Enoch Hutchings of Kittery, Maine” by Richard Jasper Hutchings (reprinted in the book Hugh Hutchins of Old England: The History of the Hutchins Families of the Old and New Worlds. by Jack Randolph Hutchins and Richard Jasper Hutchings. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1984.)

posted by R. Hutchins
For all the copied text on this page - it would be better to summarize it, or link to the original source of it. With so much here, it makes it hard to read.
posted by S (Hill) Willson
Hutchins-247 and Hutchins-342 appear to represent the same person because: They are the same.
posted by [Living Fitzgerald]

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