Hutchins, Abel (1763-1853)

Name:

Hutchins, Abel (1763-1853)

Title:

Member, F. & A. M.
Member, Whig party

Born:

03/16/1763

Birthplace:

Harvard, MA

Died:

04/04/1853

Death Location:

Concord, NH

Residence:

Harvard, MA 1763-1772
Concord, NH 1772-1778, 1786-1853
Grafton, MA 1777
Roxbury, MA 1778-1784?
Warner, NH

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Farmer
Clock and Watchmaker 1786-1819
Owned and operated Phenix Hotel, Concord, 1819-1832

Father:

Hutchins, Gordon (1733-1815)

Mother:

Stone, Dorothy (1737-1777)

Relations:

Brother of Levi Hutchins
Partnership with brother Levi Hutchins 1786-1807.
Peabody Atkinson, Apprentice
Jesse Smith, Apprentice
Albert Fowler, Apprentice, 1797

Spouse:

Elizabeth Partridge (1767-1853), January 22, 1786

Children:

Charles, born November 6, 1787
Sally Gridley, born July 3, 1788
Dolly, born July 18, 1790
Catherine, born July 21, 1792
Eliza, born November 16, 1794
George, born October 21, 1797
Jane Johnson, born July 15, 1799
Lewis, born September 30, 1801
Ephriam, born October 4, 1803
Hamilton, born July 10, 1805
Mary Ann, born June 1, 1807
Hannah Taylor, born December 22, 1810
Martha Currier, born March 1, 1813

Notes:

J. Gardner Bartlett, Ancestry and Descendants of Dea. Gregory Stone of Cambridge, Mass. 1320-1917. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Murray Printing Company, 1918), 189.

Nathaniel Bouton, The History of Concord, From Its First Grant in 1725, to the Organization of the City Government in 1753... (Concord, New Hampshire: Benning W. Sanborn,1856), 342, 374, 376, 382, 387, 390, 476, 478, 514, 603-604, 670.

Edwin Colby Byam, Ph.D, ed. Jack Randolph Hutchins, "Descendents of John Hutchins of Newbury and Haverhill Massachusetts, 82-85.

John Clayton, "NH's Alarming Inventor Does Time in Jail," New Hampshire Sunday News, May 15, 2005, A21.

James E. Conlou, "The Boston Clock Club Papers," A Talk, 5 Feb 1938.

"Indenture of Apprenticeship Able Hutchins to Simon Willard of Grafton, Massachusetts, December 6. 1777," NHHS Collection,

Hands that Built New Hampshire: The Story of Granite State Craftsmen Past & Present. (Brattleboro, Vermont: Stephen Daye Press, 1940), 58-59.

Levi Hutchins, The Autobiography of Levi Hutchins: With a Preface, Notes, and Addenda by His Youngest Son. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Riverside Press, 1865.

Augustus Woodbury, Old Age. A Discourse Preached in the Meeting-House of the Unitarian Congregational society, Concord, N.H., Thursday, April 7, 1853, On the Occasion of the Burial of Abel Hutchins. Concord, New Hampshire: McFarland & Jenks, 1853.

Donald K. Packard, "Levi and Abel Hutchins," Historical New Hampshire, 6(April 1950)1, 10-14.

John W. Willard, A History of Simon Willard, Inventor and Clockmaker, Together with Some Account of His Sons, His Apprentices, and the Workmen Associated with Him, with Brief Notices of Other Clockmakers of the Family Name. (Boston, Massachusetts: Cockayne Press for John Ware Willard, 1911), 104-05.

Charles S. Parsons, New Hampshire Clocks & Clockmakers. (Exeter, New Hampshire: Adams Brown Company, 1985), 20-21, 319-321.

Philip Zea and Robert C. Cheney, Clock Making in New England, 1725-1825: An Interpretation of the Old Sturbridge Village Collection. (Sturbridge, Massachusetts: Old Sturbridge Village,1992), 61-63, 77, 165, 167.

Obituary, Farmer's Cabinet, Amherst, New Hampshire, April 14, 1853.

Death Notice, New Hampshire Patriot and State Gazette, Concord, NH, April 6, 1853, 3.

Old North Cemetery, Concord, NH