Hutchins, Gordon (1733-1815)

Name:

Hutchins, Gordon (1733-1815)

Title:

Constable, Harvard, MA, 1766
Captain, New Hampshire Militia, 1775
Lieutenant Colonel, Continental Army, 1776
Representative, Provincial Congress, Exeter

Born:

00/00/1733

Birthplace:

Harvard, MA

Died:

12/08/1815

Death Location:

Concord, NH

Residence:

Exeter, NH 1733
Harvard, MA 1757, 1772
Concord, NH 1772-1779, 1800-1815
Pembroke, NH 1779-
Coventry, NH 1783-1786
Haverhill, NH 1786, 1788
Rumney, NH 1793-

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Farmer
Merchant
Grist Mill Operator

Father:

Hutchins, William (1695/6-1772)

Mother:

Carleton, Bethiah (1700-1758)

Spouse:

(1) Dorothy (Dolly) Stone (1737-1777), 1757
(2) Lucy Lund (1756-1833), 1780

Children:

Ephraim, born January 16, 1758, Harvard, MA
Levi, born August 17, 1761, Harvard, MA
Abel, born March 16, 1763, Harvard, MA
Bethiah, born August 29, 1765, Harvard, MA
Infant, born 1766, Harvard, MA
Ezra, born May 26, 1770, Harvard, MA
Pamelia, born July 31, 1772, Concord, NH
Matilda, born September 11, 1777, Concord, NH

Stephen, born November 27, 1780
Nancy, born July 10, 1782
Gordon, born April 5, 1785, Concord, NH
Lucy, born November 26, 1787
Dolly, born May 15, 1790
Horatio Gates, June 10, 1792
Betsey Tarbox, born March 12, 1794
John Adams, April 17, 1798
Stephen, born November 13, 1801

Notes:

Born 1733, probably in Harvard, MA; took part in the Louisburg expedition; moved to Concord, NH, 1773, as a merchant. In 1775, raised a company of men, elected Captain, fought Battle of Bunker Hill and White Plains, raised to rank of Lieut. Col.; chosen Representative to Provincial Congress at Exeter. Raised a company of volunteers in Concord at meeting and left for Battle of Bennington next day. He moved from Concord to Pembroke in 1780, then to Coventry, Haverhill, Rumney, and finally back to Concord where he died Dec. 8, 1815, age 82. He married twice and had about twenty children. Levi and Abel were clockmakers.

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), 265, 271, 272, 275, 512, 603-604, 670.

Edwin Colby Byam, Compiler and Jack Randolph Hutchins, Editor. Descendents of John Hutchins of Newbury and Haverhill Massachusetts. (Rockville, Maryland: Jack R. Hutchins, 1975), 82-85.

Levi Hutchins, The Autobiography of Levi Hutchins: With a Preface, Notes, and Addenda by His Youngest Son. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Riverside Press, 1865), 7-13, 69-75, 156-158.

Old North Cemetery, Concord, NH