Joseph Hutchinson (1755 - 1801)

Born 1755 in District of Maine, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 24 Feb 1801 at about age 46 in Hebron, Cumberland, Massachusetts, United States

Biography

Birth

Joseph Hutchinson was born in the District of Maine of the Province of Massachusetts Bay in 1755; the 1889 Free Baptist Cyclopaedia says he was born in Penobscot County, but Penobscot County was not formed until 1816.^[1] He was the son of Stephen Hutchinson and Abigail (Haskins) Hutchinson.^[2]

Marriage

Joseph Hutchinson married Rebecca LeGrow in 1778.^[1]

Biographical Details

The 1889 Free Baptist Cyclopedia, says that Joseph Hutchinson was a soldier of the Revolution and moved with his father to Windham, Maine (then in Massachusetts) about 1780, by 1790 had become the ruling elder and an unordained preacher of a Freewill Baptist congregation at Hebron, Maine (also then in Massachusetts), and was ordained in the denomination nine years later.^[1] Cutter's Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts says the move to Hebron did not occur until 1794,^[2] and the 1790 Census shows a Joseph Hutchinson living at Windham with five males under 16 and three females in his household,^[3] so he was almost certainly still been living at Windham in that year.

Children

The 1889 Free Baptist Cyclopedia says that Joseph Hutchinson was the father of 11 children.^[1] Nine of those children, born between 1779 and 1799, are listed in the 1915 history of Buckfield, Maine.^[4]

Death

Joseph Hutchinson died at Hebron, Maine (then in Massachusetts), on 24 Feb 1801.^[1][5] A FindAGrave memorial, with no photo, says he is buried at the Bog Brook Cemetery in Hebron.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} G. A. Burgess and J. T. Ward, Free Baptist Cyclopaedia, Historical and Biographical (Boston, Mass., 1889), page 285
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} William Richard Cutter, Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts (New York, volume 4, 1908), page 1436
3. ↑ Joseph Hutchinson household, in United States Census, 1790, database with images, FamilySearch > Maine > Cumberland > Windham > image 1 of 2; citing NARA microfilm publication M637, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
4. ↑ Alfred Cole and Charles Foster Whitman, A History of Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, from the Earliest Explorations to the Close of the Year 1900 (Buckfield, Me., 1915), page 603
5. ↑ Undated transcription by the town clerk of Hebron, Maine, of the death record of Joseph Hutchinson, citing "Town Records," in Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921, database with images, FamilySearch > Delayed returns for vital records 1670-1891 > Huntoon, 1862-Ireland, 1818 > image 2722 of 4851; multiple sources, Maine.
6. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #152950303 for Elder Joseph Hutchinson