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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http://www.mainegenealogy.net/maine_wills.asp?source=probatecourtvol1&testator=EnochHutchings
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.)