John and Elizabeth (Pearson) Hutchinson Line

by Charles Robbins Hutchinson

with additions by Richard S. Hutchinson

Charles Robbins Hutchinson descends from John (I) & Elizabeth (Pearson) Hutchinson. In his research, he writes: "Of the origin of John Hutchinson, nothing is certainly known.  He appears in Burlington County some seven years earlier than William and Jonathan, who may have been his brothers, although there is nothing to show that such was the case, excepting, perhaps a constant recurrence of Christian names, physical types and traits of character, and the intimate relations which appear to have existed between the families of all three, particularly those of John and Jonathan. Besides, it appears probable that they all came here from Perth Amboy."

Robert Pearson, in his will, dated September 13, 1751, and proved June 22, 1753, devised to his daughter, Elizabeth Hutchinson, and after her death to her four eldest sons; John, Robert, Jonathan and Thomas, a tract of land which his father, the first Robert Pearson, purchased, in 1696, from John Hutchinson of Hutchinson's Manor; for 500 acres, together with fifty acres more, which he added from his own plantation.  This tract, which upon a re-survey, was found to contain 663 acres, was bounded northerly, at least in great part, by the old road through Nottingham Square toward Trenton, which road then ran between the farm late of William H. Hughes, deceased, and that of Albert Hooper, and others, to a point south of Sandtown or Mercerville.  Thence it extended southerly beyond Pond Run to Robert Pearson's other lands.  Its easterly line was at about the present road from Nottingham (now Hamilton) Square to Yardville, and the present road to White Horse or Pearsonville appears to divide it into nearly equal parts. If John and Elizabeth  lived upon this tract, it was probably not until after the death of Robert Pearson in 1753, when they had been married twenty five years.  that they afterwards did so is likely.  The town book of Nottingham for the years between 1710 and 1752, is lost.  At the former date there were no Hutchinsons in the township. The next list of inhabitants obtainable was made in 1758, and among these are found John Hutchinson and John Hutchinson, Junr.  The question arises:  Where did John and Elizabeth live during the first twenty three years of their married life?

Elizabeth, wife of John Hutchinson, died previous to April 6, 1770, and on that date the tract of land before mentioned was surveyed by Gervas Phares, and divided among her four eldest sons, as ordered in the will of their Grandfather Pearson.  At what time John Hutchinson died I am unable to say, unless, as is possible, he is the person mentioned in the following items, and , it is also probable that the Amos Hutchinson therein mentioned as his administrator, was his youngest son: "May 31, 1782, Letters of Administration were granted ...unto Amos Hutchinson, administrator to the estate of John Hutchinson, late of Burlington County, deceased, ... Given under the prerogative seal, the 31st May, 1782."

The children of John & Elizabeth (Pearson) Hutchinson were ten in number, five sons and five daughters, viz: John (2), Robert (3), Jonathan (4), Thomas (5), Amos (6), Sarah (7), Elizabeth (8), Rachel (9), Anne (10), Mary (11).

(2) John Hutchinson, the eldest son of John and Elizabeth (Pearson) Hutchinson had arrived at man's estate in 1758, and was then probably about twenty six years of age.  At the division of the homestead tract in 1770, he received as his portion thereof 182 acres, bounded southerly by the southerly line of the whole tract, at or near the brook known as Pond Run, easterly by the easterly line of said whole tract, northerly by the land set off to his brother Robert and westerly by that of Jonathan and Thomas.  The plantation of John included the three farms which in 1875 were in the possession of William Clarke, Edwin Hill and Isaac Dey.  He was taxed as a land owner in Nottingham in 1762, eight years before the above division; was an overseer of highways for that township in 1772; and was a private in the Burlington County militia in the Revolution.  He was identified with the Presbyterian Church at Nottingham Square, and signed the call to its pastorate of Rev. Joseph Clark in 1786. He died in the early part of the year 1791, leaving a will dated January 13, and which was proved May 17, of that year.  In it he names as his executors "my son Jonathan and my son Amos Hutchinson, and my friend David Cubberley.  The will was witnessed by William Willgus, Mary Willgus, Jonathan Hutchinson. The inventory of his personal property amounted to 267.5.0 pounds.  He left a wife, named Jerusha, and nine children, the four last named of whom were minors at the time of his death.  His children were: Amos (12), Jonathan (13), Elizabeth (14), Mary (15), Pamelia (16), John (17), William (18), Anna (19), Abigail (20).

Amos Hutchinson (12), son of John & Jerusha Hutchinson was born in 1767, inherited from his father the southern part of the homestead plantation, the farm where William Clarke formerly lived.  He was known as "Captain" Amos Hutchinson, and his gravestone thus designates him.  He died May 21, 1845, in the 79th year of his age, and was buried in the Presbyterian Graveyard at Hamilton Square, of which church he was a prominent member.  He married Elizabeth Ford, who survived him many years, dying January 3, 1863, in her ninety fourth year. [See photo of Elizabeth (Ford) Hutchinson - thanks to a descendant who visited this website. Photo #1 , Photo # 2] They had thirteen children, as follows: John & Elizabeth (Pearson) Hutchinson

Major Hutchinson (21), who lived in Trenton, where he died about 1880.  He had two daughters who never married: Rosetta and Naomi.  I think another daughter was the mother of William I. Vannest, of Trenton.

John A. Hutchinson (22), also lived in Trenton, where he carried on a bow factory in which he was succeeded by his sons.

George Hutchinson (23), born in 1794, married Sarah Hutchinson, daughter of Sylvanus and Betsy (Barber) Hutchinson; lived on the farm which fell to Thomas Hutchinson and which Robert Hutchinson inherited from his father, Silvanus; died of "spotted fever" March 16, 1864.  His daughter, Eleanor, died the following day, of the same disease, aged 47 years.  His daughter Sarah married Clark Hooper.  His only son, Robert L. Hutchinson, became quite prominent in public affairs, was a member of the New Jersey Legislature, Sheriff of Mercer County, and United States Marshall for New Jersey.  Sarah Hutchinson, wife of George, died January 5, 1881, aged 82 years.  They are buried in the Presbyterian Graveyard at Hamilton Square.

Pearson Hutchinson (24) - No information known.

Eli Hutchinson (25) - No information known.

Daniel Hutchinson (26) -  No information known.

Francis Hutchinson (27), born October 23, 1805, died unmarried, March 4, 1862.

Amos Hutchinson (28), died a young man.  He left a son, William Henry Hutchinson, formerly of Trenton.

Naomi Hutchinson (29), born September 7, 1794, married Joseph Lee; died May 14, 1868, leaving children - Amos H., George, David, James M., Charles and Samuel S. (twins), and Caroline, who married Charles Henry Hughes.

Mary Hutchinson (30), married first; David Cole and second, his brother, George Cole of Windsor. 

Jerusha Hutchinson (31), born February 28, 1808, married Randal C. Robbins and lived at Windsor.  Their children were: George R., Aaron, Charles, Amos, Courtlandt, and Elizabeth, who is unmarried.

Theodosia Hutchinson (32), born 20 December 1810 - died 18 August 1898, married James B. Coleman, and lived and died near Mercerville.  They had one son, John H. Coleman, who died March 10, 1905; and several daughters, one of whom married Samuel Bennett, of Cranbury; another George A. Morris of Hamilton Square; and another Randolph B. Totten of Robbinsville. [See Photo of James Baremore Coleman (11 July 1808 - 14 March 1887)- thanks to a descendant who visited this website.]

Margaret Hutchinson (33), married Ezekiel Tindall, son of William I. and Amy (Hutchinson) Tindall, who was born March 12, 1818, and died April 19, 1869.  They lived on the farm which Jonathan Hutchinson [son of John & Elizabeth (Pearson) Hutchinson] inherited from his mother, and which was afterwards owned by David Lee, son of Joseph and Naomi above mentioned.  Their children were: Ellen, who married Ralph Hooper; Charles, Emeline, Jane, Amanda, and William Henry Harrison.

Jonathan Hutchinson (XIII), son of John (2) & Jerusha Hutchinson, was probably their eldest son.  In the division of his father's plantation, he received the northern portion.  He died about 1810. i know of no children of his excepting one son, viz; Henry Hutchinson, who lived and died on the same farm, and whose children were: Jonathan E., John Voorhees, Henry B., and Achsah, who was the first wife of Isaac Hunt.

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Jonathan Hutchinson (IV), son of John (1) & Elizabeth (Pearson) Hutchinson, after the death of his mother in 1770, received as his portion of the homestead tract, 177 acres, bounded northerly by the land set off to his brother Thomas, southeasterly in part by that of his brother John and part by 22 acres of meadow on Pond Run which was also set off to Thomas, and westerly by the bound line of the whole tract.  In 1811, this farm was owned by Asher Quigley, and then contained 152 acres.  When I was a boy, (some sixty years ago), Ezekiel Tindall lived there.  In 1898, it was owned and occupied by David Lee and contained 102 acres.  Jonathan married Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Hill.  By the bond for their license of marriage, dated February 25, 1771, "Jonathan Hutchinson and John Hutchinson, both of the County of Burlington," were sureties for "said Jonathan Hutchinson and Elizabeth Hill." The children of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Hill) Hutchinson were:Samuel (35), Pearson (36), Thomas (37), Israel (38), Joel Hill (39), Smith (40), Johanna (41), and Christeen (42).

Israel Hutchinson, son of Jonathan & Elizabeth (Hill) Hutchinson, born September 14, 1772; died December14, 1825.  His wife, whose name was Abigail, died February 27, 1868, aged 86 years, 6 months and 27 days.  Their children were: Smith, who died October 13, 1831, aged 17 years, 8 months and 15 days; John Cornell, who died November 15, 1847, aged 36 years, 1 month and 16 days; Abigail, who died unmarried, August 27, 1854, aged 45 years, 8 months and 9 days; Israel Hill, who died September 10, 1848, aged 28 years, 1 month and 26 days; and Elizabeth, born in 1805, married Charles Skelton of Trenton, and died in 1875.  All of these are buried in the Skelton lot in the Presbyterian [Church] Cemetery at Hamilton Square [previously Nottingham Square], as is also Abraham M. Hutchinson of Trenton, born March 8, 1829; and died October 18, 1878, who was of the same family.

Smith Hutchinson, son of Jonathan & Elizabeth (Hill) Hutchinson, was once the owner of a certain high day clock which is now in my [Charles Robbins Hutchinson] possession, and which was purchased by my grandfather, Robert Hutchinson, at a Sheriff's sale of his effects....[In the Monmouth County Historical Association, Freehold, Monmouth Co, New Jersey, there is an account book of Clark Hutchinson - Blacksmith - Ledger #3, dated 1818 - 1821. In the account book, Smith Hutchinson had four entries beginning on 27 May 1819 to 7 Feb 1820. A history of Israel Hutchinson in the History of LaSalle Co, Illinois, by Hoffman, in 1906 states that Smith Hutchinson, Israel's father, died when Israel was 6 years old, which would make his death date 1824 based upon the birth date of Israel at 1818.

Joanna Hutchinson, daughter of Jonathan & Elizabeth (Hill) Hutchinson,  the first wife of Asher Quigley, who, in 1811, owned the farm which had formerly belonged to Jonathan.  After her death, Quigley married Susan Barber, whose sister, Betsy, was the wife of Sylvanus Hutchinson.

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Jonathan Hutchinson (4), son of John & Elizabeth (Pearson) Hutchinson, left a Will dated February 14, 1792, and which was proved April 26, of the same year.  It mentions his wife, Elizabeth, and his children above name, some of whom were minors at that time.  His executors were Smith Hill, Amos Hutchinson, Junr., and Samuel Hutchinson.  The witnesses to the will were David Cubberley, Robert Phares and William Phares.  [William Phares, Sr. and William, Jr. and other family members (sometimes spelled Ferris in Ohio) and the Hutchinson descendants from the Nottingham Township area can be found intermarried and in the Hamilton County, Ohio area; ie John Hutchinson, grandson of John & Elizabeth (Pearson) Hutchinson marrying Amy Cubberley and naming one of their children Jerusha, who married William Phares, Jr.]

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Thomas Hutchinson (V), son of John (1) & Elizabeth (Pearson) Hutchinson, at the death of his mother in 1770, inherited that part of the homestead tract bounded southwesterly by the land set-off to his brother, Jonathan, southeasterly by the lands of John and northeasterly by that of Robert, and extending northwesterly to the corner of the original tract, containing 139 acres and 50 perches; and also a piece of meadow on Pond Run, south of Jonathan's plantation, containing 22 acres, 3 rods and 13 perches.  His wife was named Mary and they had eight children. 

Thomas Hutchinson was in private in the Burlington County Militia during the Revolution, and was still a resident of Nottingham in 1786, for in that year, he was one of the five persons bearing the name of Hutchinson who are found among the eleven signers to the call then made by the Presbyterian Church at that place to Rev. Joseph Clark as it's pastor.  He afterwards removed to Dover Township, in Monmouth (now Ocean) County, where he was living when he made his will, which is dated May 1, 1790, and was proved July 25, 1797.  By it, he devises "to my loving wife sixty pounds in money, one bed and furniture, one looking glass, and the use of my place in Nottingham Township, [now Mercer County] Burlington County, for the term of ten years; then my son John will be fifteen years old..."  He appoints Daniel Clark in Trenton one of my executors until my son Benjamin is twenty one, then to settle up with him, and John Hutchinson my loving brother, the other executor, till my son Daniel is twenty one, then to settle up with him...."

March 10, 1811, "Mary Ford, late Mary Hutchinson, and widow of Thomas Hutchinson deceased, and now intermarried with William Ford of the township of Nottingham, "... released to Benjamin Hutchinson of the place aforesaid, for one dollar, all her right of dower in the estate of her aforesaid husband, Thomas Hutchinson.  The children on Thomas (5) and Mary Hutchinson were: Benjamin, Daniel, Jonathan, John born in 1785, Elizabeth, Ruth, Mary, Phebe, born in 1790.

Benjamin Hutchinson, son of Thomas (5) and Mary Hutchinson, was perhaps, their eldest child.  He succeeded to the homestead farm in Nottingham, purchasing the shares of his brothers and sisters as they came of age, and probably occupied it until the spring of 1811, when he exchanged it with his cousin, Sylvanus Hutchinson, for the tavern property at Sandtown (now Mercerville), containing ten acres, "and which was then known as Hutchinson's Tavern." Benjamin was a carpenter by trade, and his wife was named Jane.  They only child of his of whom I have ever heard was a son named Thomas, who lived in that part of old Nottingham Township, which remained for a time after the township of Hamilton was created.

The following case, #15871, was filed in 1832, in the NJ Supreme Court by Benjamin Hutchinson against Samuel Bayard and Robert F. Stockton, Executors of Richard Stockton, deceased, who was the Executor of Barnt De Klyn, deceased, for Trespass and a Bill of Debt. 

NJ Supreme Court Case, #15871, Benjamin Hutchinson vs. Barnt DeKlyn

1832 - September Term – To the Sheriff of Hunterdon County – We command you that you secure Samuel Bayard and Robert F. Stockton, Executors of Richard Stockton, deceased, which sd. Richard Stockton was Executor of the last will and testament of Barnt De Klyn, deceased, to be and appear before the Justices of our Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of New Jersey to be held at Trenton on the first Tuesday of September next to answer unto Benjamin Hutchinson of a plea of Trespass and also to a bill to be exhibited against the sd. Samuel Bayard and Robert F. Stockton, executors of Richard Stockton, deceased, and which sd. Richard Stockton was Executor of the last will and testament of Barnt De Klyn, deceased, upon promises to the damage of the sd. Benjamin Hutchinson, one thousand dollars.  And, have you then, there this witness Charles Ewing Esquire, Chief Justice of our sd. Court at Trenton afsd. the second Tuesday of May in the year – 1832.

Filed – 27 February 1832 - Filing of William Halsted, Atty. for Benjamin Hutchinson – Burlington County – Benjamin Hutchinson complains of Samuel Bayard and Robert F. Stockton, Executors of the last will and testament of Richard Stockton, deceased, which sd. Richard Stockton who was the Executor of the last will and testament of Barnt De Klyn, deceased.  The sd. Robert F. Stockton being in the custody of the Sheriff, etc.  And, the same Samuel Bayard, returned not found.  For that whereas, the said Barnt De klyn, in his lifetime, to wit, on the third day of August, 1824, at Nottingham, Burlington Co., was indebted to the sd. Benjamin Hutchinson, in the sum of $500, … for the work and labor, care and diligence of the sd. Hutchinson, by him the sd. Hutchinson, before that time, done, performed and bestowed in and about the business of the sd. De Klyn, and for the sd. De Klyn, in his lifetime, and at his special instance and request.  And, also for divers materials and other necessary things by the sd. Hutchinson, before that time found and provided and used and applied in and about that work and labor for the sd. De Klyn, in his lifetime, and at his like special instance and request, and being so indebted, De Klyn, in his lifetime, in consideration thereof afterwards, to wit, on the day & years last afsd., at Nottingham afsd., in Burlington Co., afsd. under took and then and there faithfully promised the sd. Hutchison, to pay him the sd. last mentioned sum of money, when he to pay the same should be thereunto afterwards requested. 

            And, whereas also the sd. De Klyn afterwards, to wit, on the day and year last of next and at Nottingham afsd. in the county afsd., was indebted to the sd. Benjamin Hutchinson, in the further sum of $500, of the lawful money for the work and labor, care and diligence of the sd. Hutchinson, by him, the sd. Hutchinson, his journeyman, apprentices and servants, before that time, done performed and bestowed in and about the building, mending, repairing, certain houses, barns, buildings, tenements and banks of the sd. De Klyn in his lifetime, and for the sd. De Klyn at his special instance and request.  Also, for diverse materials and other necessary things by the sd. Hutchinson before that time found and provided, and used and applied, in and about that work and labor and for the sd. De Klyn, in his lifetime, and at his like special instance and request, and being so indebted, he the sd. De Klyn in consideration thereof, afterwards, to wit, in the day and year last afsd. at Nottingham afsd. in Burlington Co., afsd., undertook and then and there faithfully promised the sd. Hutchinson, to pay him the last mentioned sum of money when he, the sd. De Klyn, should be thereunto afterwards requested.

            And, whereas also the sd. De Klyn in his lifetime, to wit., the 5^th of August 1824, at Nottingham, Burlington Co., was indebted to the sd. Hutchinson, in the further sum of $500 dollars for the work and labor, care and diligence of the sd. Hutchinson before that time done and performed in and about the business of the sd. De Klyn in his lifetime, and at his special instance and request.  And, also for diverse materials and other necessary things by the sd. Hutchinson before that time fund and provided and used and applied in an about that work and labor for the sd. De Klyn, in his lifetime, and at his special instance and request.  And, also for diverse materials and other necessary things by the sd. Hutchinson, before that time found and provided and used and applied, in and about that work and labor and for the sd. De Klyn, in his lifetime, and at his like special instance and request.  And the sd. De Klyn, since deceased, in his lifetime, being so indebted in the sd. sum of money in this count mentioned, being and remaining wholly due and unpaid, the sd. Richard Stockton, as Executor, as afsd. in his lifetime, in consideration thereof afterwards, and after the death of the sd. De Klyn, to wit., 5 November 1827, to wit, at Nottingham afsd. in the county afsd., undertook and then and there faithfully promised the sd. Hutchinson, to pay him that sd. last mentioned sum of many, in this Court mentioned, when he the sd. Richard Stockton, Executor as afsd. should be thereunto afterwards request.  And, whereas also the sd. Richard Stockton, executor afsd., in his lifetime, afterwards, to wit, on 6 November 1827 at Trenton, to wit., Nottingham, in the county afsd. accounted with the said Benjamin Hutchinson, of and concerning diverse other sums of money from the sd. De Klyn, in his lifetime, and at the time of sd. accounting, to the sd. Hutchinson, due and owing, and then in arrears and unpaid and upon that accounting, the sd. De Klyn, in his lifetime, and at the time of his death was found to be in arrears and indebted to the sd. Hutchinson in the further sum of $500, and being so indebted and in arrears and the sd. last mentioned sum of money being and remaining wholly unpaid, he the sd. Richard Stockton, executor as afsd., in his lifetime, in consideration thereof afterwards, to wit, on the day and year last afsd., at Trenton, to wit. at Nottingham afsd., undertook and then and there faithfully promised the sd. Hutchinson, to pay him the sd. last sum of money last mentioned wherever afterwards he the sd. Richard Stockton, executor, as afsd., should be thereunto afterwards requested.  And, whereas the sd. De Klyn, in his lifetime, to wit., on 5 August 1824 at Nottingham, afsd., in the county afsd.,  was indebted tio sd. Hutchinson in other $500, for so much money before that time and then due and payable from the sd. De Klyn to the sd. Benjamin Hutchinson, for interest upon and for the forbearance of divers other large sums of money before then due and owing from the sd. De Klyn, and at the time of his death, and by him the sd. Hutchinson [?] to the sd. De Klyn for divers long spaces of time before then elapsed at the like special instance and request of the sd. De Klyn and being so indebted, he the sd. De Klyn in his lifetime in  consideration thereof afterwards to wit., the day and year afsd. at Nottingham, in the county afsd., undertook and then and there faithfully promised the sd. Hutchinson to pay him the last mentioned sum of money, when he the sd. De Klyn should be thereunto afterwards requested.

            And, whereas also the sd. De Klyn deceased, to wit, in his lifetime on 1 September 1824, to wit., at Nottingham afsd.… was indebted to the sd. Hutchinson in the further sum of$500…before that time and then due and payable from the sd. De Klyn to the sd. Hutchinson, for interest upon and for the fore-bearance of divers other … of money before then due and owing from the sd. De Klyn to sd. Benjamin Hutchinson… and fro divers large spaces of time before then elapsed at the like special instances and request of the sd. De Klyn.  And the sd. De Klyn, deceased, in his lifetime being so indebted, and the sd. sum of money in this count mentioned being and remaining wholly due and unpaid, the sd. Richard Stockton as Executor, as Executor afsd. in his lifetime, afterwards, to wit., on 5 November 1827 at Trenton, to wit at Nottingham, … and after the death of sd. De Klyn undertook and faithfully promised the sd. Hutchinson, to pay him the sd. last mentioned sum of money when he, the sd. Richard Stockton, Executor, as afsd. should be thereunto afterward requested, yet the sd. De Klyn, in his lifetime, and the sd. Richard F. Stockton, Executors, of the of the sd. Richard Stockton, who was Executor as afsd., since the death of the sd, Richard, not regarding the sd. Several promises and undertaking above mentioned, have not nor have either of them, as yet paid the sd. several sums of money or any or either of them or any part thereof, to the sd. Benjamin Hutchinson, although often requested so to do, but to pay the same or any part thereof to the sd. Benjamin Hutchinson, the sd. De Klyn, in his lifetime, wholly refused, and the sd. Richard Stockton, Executor, afsd. in his lifetime, and since the death of sd. De Klyn, wholly refused, and the sd. Samuel Bayard  and Robert F. Stockton, executors of Richard Stockton, who was executor of the sd. De klyn, have ever since the death of the sd. Richard Stockton, executor afsd., wholly refused and still refuses to the damages of the sd. Benjamin Hutchinson , $1,000 and therefore he brings suit.  Signed; William Halsted, Atty.

[Benjamin Hutchinson married Jane Taylor and they had 8 children - Thomas, Robert T., Phebe, Daniel, Mary, Louisa W.,  Benjamin, Samuel. He was described as a carpenter in Middlesex County deed, Vol I-P595, dated 18 October 1800. Record of his death is in the Daily True American, 3 June 1853. [The names of Benjamin's children:  Robert, Daniel, Louisa, Phebe and another sister come together from a Will of Daniel Hutchinson, died 1870, in Cedar Co, Iowa per Bill Hutchinson, of Nichols, Iowa. See DNA Relationships on this website.] After Benjamin's death, his wife Jane, lived with their daughter, Louisa Doudney, and ended up in Iowa. Benjamin was buried in the Trenton/Lamberton Baptist Church; now known as the First Baptist Church of Trenton, NJ. However, the stones of the burials there have been removed from the cemetery. The last sale of land in New Jersey, by Benjamin and Jane Hutchinson, appears in Burlington Co Deeds was Vol L-4, P10, dated 1 July 1845. In Burlington Co Roads - Book "A", Pages 295-297, there is found a road survey with map which goes through the property of Sylvanus & Amos Hutchinson, and that of Jonathan Hutchinson, deceased, and Benjamin Hutchinson's Tavern. The Baptist Church in Trenton on Centre St shows that Benjamin is buried in their cemetery which is now covered over. Their records show no burial for Jane being she died in Iowa.] However, they show that she, by letter, transferred to Columbus, Burlington County, New Jersey. The records of the Columbus Baptist Church show that both Benjamin and Jane transferred there from Trenton by Letter and were accepted into the church on 24 July 1847 by the "Right Hand of Fellowship". Benjamin can be found in their records in 1847,1848,1849,1850. The only other notation for Jane is "Deceased" with no date or any further info.]

[Here is info on some of Benjamin's children: Robert T. Hutchinson - He was in Allen Co, Ohio in 1842; Auglaize Co, Ohio, in 1847; and in Defiance, Ohio, in 1856. He moved to Cedar Co, Iowa, in May 23, 1864 (All of the above by deeds.) They were missed in the 1840 & 1850 census counts but are in the 1860 census of Defiance, Ohio, he married Margaret H. Wilbur and they had 10 known children-Benjamin, Samuel, Robert, Lucinda, Albert, Alexander, Hannah Jane, Mulford, George Washington, and Clinton. Phebe Hutchinson - She was in Cedar Co, Iowa in 1870 and was mentioned as a niece in Daniel Hutchinson's will in Cedar Co, Iowa. She died 9 October 1889 aged 77.5.7, which gives her a birth date of 2 May1812.  Her obit is in the "Tipton Advertiser", dated 17 Oct 1889, page 3: "Mrs. George Ford ... passed away on the 10th inst. at the age of 78 years ... came to Cedar in 1852 ... funeral, on the 12th instant ..." Record of their marriage is found in the Burlington Co Clerk's Marriage records, Book C.  Bill Hutchinson of Nichols, Iowa, advises me that both Phebe (Hutchinson) Ford and her husband, George, were listed as heirs in Daniel's Will with the provision that in ten years of Daniel's death, they would provide the following six nieces and nephews with their shares: Daniel Ford, son of George & Phebe (Hutchinson) Ford; Daniel H. Moore, son of Snowden and Mary (Hutchinson) Moore; Benjamin H. Doudney, son of William and Louisa (Hutchinson) Doudney; Anna A. Doudney, daughter of William & Louisa; Sarah H. Doudney, dau of William and Louisa; and Hannah Jane Hutchinson, dau of Robert T. and Margaret (Wilbur) Hutchinson. Daniel Hutchinson - Bill Hutchinson found his grave in an abandoned cemetery, 40 rods off a country road in back of a corn field. He died just after the 1870 Census was taken and left a will in Cedar Co, Iowa which left his farm to "his beloved sister, Louisa and her husband" for 10 years. He then mentioned the names of 6 nieces and nephews. Daniel and his mother went to live with the Doudney family after Benjamin died in 1853. Apparently, Daniel never married. His birth date is calculated from his gravestone age of 55.9.18.  Mary Hutchinson - Mary married Snowden Moore. Her married name Moore comes from Daniel Hutchinson's will in Cedar Co, Iowa in the 1870's. He mentions Mary's son, David Moore, as his nephew. The record of their marriage is found in the Burlington Co Clerk's Marriages, Book D. Her age comes from the 1850 Census of Camden Co, NJ, Page 52. Louisa W. Hutchinson - Louisa and family were found in the 1870 Census of Cedar Co, Iowa. Living with them in the 1870 Census was Jane Hutchinson, aged 86, and a Daniel Hutchinson, aged 55. The Doudney family moved out of Iowa and were in Allen Co, Kansas in 1883. After William died in Kansas, she went to Texas with her family and died there. See the 1878 History of Cedar Co, Iowa for Doudney. A female named Louisa H. Moore, age 20, was living with Snowden Moore in the 1840 Camden Co, NJ, Census, page 52.]

Daniel Hutchinson, son of Thomas (5) & Mary Hutchinson, released his share in the homestead to Benjamin, October 18, 1800, at which time he does not appear to have been married.  He is then described as "of Nottingham."

Jonathan Hutchinson, son of Thomas (5) & Mary Hutchinson, released his share of the homestead to Benjamin, February 17, 1803.  He is then described as "of Nottingham."  No wife is mentioned.

John Hutchinson, son of Thomas (5) & Mary Hutchinson,  born in 1785 and who appears to have been their youngest son, released his share of the homestead to Benjamin, May 2, 1806.  He seems to have been still unmarried in 1810, when he is described as "John Hutchinson, of Nottingham, blacksmith."  He is mentioned as an early blacksmith at Nottingham Square.

Elizabeth Hutchinson, daughter of Thomas (5) & Mary Hutchinson, married James Phares, of Nottingham, mason, previous to May 2, 1806, when they released their interest in the homestead to Benjamin.

Ruth Hutchinson, daughter of Thomas (5) & Mary Hutchinson, married William Cubberley, and they lived on a farm located on the old turnpike, near Newtown or Robbinsville.  They released their interest in the homestead farm to Benjamin, October 4, 1803 for $160.  Their children were: James; Thomas; Tobias; Enoch; Daniel; John H., who was a carpenter & married Mary Nelson and lives at Hamilton Square; Dilerhe; Francis, who succeeded to a part of his father's farm; Angeline, who married first ________ Barlow and second Samuel Cubberley; and William.

Mary Hutchinson, daughter of Thomas (5) & Mary Hutchinson, released her interest in the homestead to Benjamin, May 22, 1807, but then under twenty one years of age, she made another release January 1, 1816, when she is described as "Mary Hutchinson of Trenton."

Phebe Hutchinson, daughter of Thomas (5) & Mary Hutchinson, was born after the date of her father's will in 1790, wherein, nevertheless, he provided for the expected child.  She released her interest in the homestead to Benjamin, May 9, 1810, but being then, like her sister Mary, under the age of twenty one years, a later release was made July 9, 1818 by "Tobias Piper and Phebe, his wife, of the township of Torbit, in the county of Northumberland, in the state of Pennsylvania," to Sylvanus Hutchinson who had then become the owner of the farm.  Tobias Piper above mentioned was a doctor, the son of Doctor Frederick Piper, who was located at Nottingham Square about the year 1815, and was associated with him in his practice.  They removed to Pennsylvania before 1819.  A later Doctor Frederick Piper, who a few years ago was located for a short time at Hamilton Square, was perhaps of the same family.

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Amos Hutchinson, son of John (1) & Elizabeth (Pearson) Hutchinson, is first mentioned in 1751, in the will of his grandfather Pearson, who in devising to him a legacy of five pounds does not give his name, but designated him only as "the youngest son" of his daughter, Elizabeth Hutchinson, from which it appears likely that he was born about that time.  Although he probably outlived all his brothers and sisters, I have little information concerning him.  Grace, daughter of the third Robert Pearson and wife of Robert Gill, who was born November 21, 1782, and died March 27, 1860, remembered him as an old man, who in her earlier years, used to visit the Pearson homestead.  The records are silent concerning him.

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The five daughters of John (1) and Elizabeth Hutchinson: Sarah, Elizabeth, Rachel, Anne and Mary, are all mentioned by name in the will of their grandfather Pearson who devised to each of them a legacy of five pounds.  What became of them?  When I was a boy, about 1848, there lived in Hamilton Township Nathaniel and Betty Morgan, old people, with grown up sons named Benjamin, William and Charles.  The family was not very much account, especially the sons, but Nathaniel always insisted on calling my grandfather Hutchinson, "Cousin Robert;" and Richard Morgan, who was perhaps the father of Nathaniel, was a witness to the will of may great-grandfather, Robert, son of John (1) and Elizabeth; from which I am led to believe that Richard Morgan is likely to have married one of the daughters of the said John and Elizabeth.  The Wilgus family of Hamilton Township was also some way related to my grandfather.  The second oldest stone in the Presbyterian Graveyard at Hamilton Square is rudely inscribed as follows:  "R. Wilgus, agd 47. died 27 of ye 12 mo:1786" and it marks the grave of Richard Wilgus who was the grandfather of William Wilgus formerly of Hamilton Square, our next door neighbor when I was a boy at home.... Another family to which my grandfather was related, was the Phares family.  John and Robert Phares were taxed in Nottingham Township in 1762. John as a "householder," and Robert as a "freeholder," and they were still there in 1772.  John Phares, "cooper," and William Phares, appear in the store ledger of "Judge" John Imlay, of Allentown 1751-1757.  John Phares, in the Revolution, was Ensign in Captain Gulick's company, third regiment, Middlesex County, November 1, 1780.  March 24, 1783, the account of Mary Phares and John Lawrie administrators of William Phares, deceased, was settled and approved and on the same date, William Phares was appointed guardian for Robert Phares.  Robert Phares signed the call to Rev. Joseph Clark to the pastorate of the Presbyterian Church at Nottingham Square in 1786; was a witness to the will of Jonathan Hutchinson (4) in 1792, and to that of John Steward of Hanover Township, Burlington County, March 12, 1798. William Phares was also a witness to the will of Jonathan Hutchinson above mentioned, and appears to have been in Hanover Township in 1796.  James Phares, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Hutchinson (5) Hutchinson was also of this family, and was probably the first cousin of his wife..  When James and Elizabeth Phares released their interest [in] her father's homestead to Benjamin, the deed was witnessed by Washington Phares.  Charles Phares appears as witness to a deed from Asher Quigley and Sylvanus Hutchinson to John Hutchinson, "Blacksmith," for a small lot, part of the homestead of Thomas Hutchinson, December 9, 1809. John Phares, in 1806, lived in Nottingham Square, in a house on the northerly side of the Trenton Road at what was then the easterly end of the village, and which was the residence of David Cubberley until his death in 1845, and of his widow for some years afterwards. Joseph Phares was taxed in Upper Freehold as a "householder" in 1790, and kept the tavern at Imlaystown in 1793 and 1794.  I have a theory that William Phares (1) married Mary Hutchinson, daughter of John (1) and Elizabeth, and that she is the Mary Phares who was one of his administrators in 1783; and that William Phares (2), James and Robert, and perhaps others here named, were their children.  Robert Phares was an old man when I was a small boy and I remember him as sometimes a visitor at my fathers's house.  I never heard of any wife or children of his.  He had been a soldier in the Revolution and was called "Major Phares."  He was formany years an Overseer of Roads in Nottingham, and had a habit of going along with a hoe after a rain, and making little gutters to lead off the water, and these gutters the people of the neighborhood called "little majors."  He died about as long ago as I can remember, and his unmarked grave is in the Presbyterian Graveyard at Hamilton Square.

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Robert Hutchinson (III), the second son of John (1) and Elizabeth (Pearson) Hutchinson, and my great-grandfather, is mentioned as being a freeholder in Nottingham in 1762. At the division of the homestead tract in 1770, he received the northerly part of it, containing 162 acres "strict measure," lying nearly in the form of a triangle. bounded southwesterly by the land setoff to Thomas and John, northwesterly by the old road through Nottingham Square towards Trenton, and easterly by the easterly line of the whole tract, at or near where is now the road leading to Yardville, apparently including all that part of the village of Hamilton Square lying on the southerly side of the road leading to Trenton and west of the Yardville road, the Presbyterian Churchyard, where so many of the descendants of both John and Jonathan Hutchinson are buried being also within its limits.

In the spring of 1769, when Robert Hutchinson was probably about thirty five years of age, he married Sarah Clutch [Mc Clutch], of Burlington County, a widow.  The bond which was given for their marriage license, and which is filed in the office of the Secretary of State, at Trenton, is as follows:  "Know all men by these presents: That we, Robert Hutchinson and John Hutchinson, both of the county of Burlington and province of New Jersey, are holden and do stand justly indebted unto His Excellency William Franklin Esquire, in the sun of Five Hundred  Pounds, current lawful money of New Jersey, to be paid to his said Excellency William Franklin, his successors or assigns.  For which payment well and truly to be made and done, we do bind ourselves, our heirs, executors and administrators, and every of them, jointly and severally and firmly by these presents.  Sealed with our seal. Dated this third day of April, Anno Domini, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty Nine.  The consideration of this obligation is such that whereas the above bounden Robert Hutchinson hath obtained a License of Marriage for himself of the one party and for Sarah Clutch of the other party: Now if it shall hereafter appear that they, the said Robert Hutchinson and Sarah Clutch have any lawful let or impediment of Pre-Contract, Affinity or Consanguinity to hinder their being joined in the holy Bonds of Matrimony and afterwards their living together as Man and Wife, then this obligation to stand and remain in full force and virtue, and otherwise to be void and of no effect.  Witnessed by Wm. Taylor; signed by Robert Hutchinson John Hutchinson."

Sarah Clutch was the daughter of John and Sarah (Smith) Adams, of Burlington County.  Her first husband was Daniel Mc Clutch, of Nottingham Township, who died in 1763, leaving her with three small children, the eldest being about seven years old. December 25, 1763 - "Letters of Administration were granted to Timothy Abbott, upon the goods, chattels and credits of Daniel Mc Clutchey, late of the township of Nottingham, in the county of Burlington...deceased." Amount of Inventory - 23.11.6 pounds.

The Clutch family appears to have been of Irish origin.  They are found in Burlington County at least as early as 1742.  The name is variously given in the early records, and appears to have been evolved from "Mc Clutche," or "Mc Clutchey," or something of the sort. The children of Daniel and Sarah Clutch were Daniel, John, and a third son, whose name is lost, and of whom nothing further is known than that he went to Kentucky when it was a wilderness, and was there killed by Indians.

The residence of Robert (3) and Sarah Hutchinson was upon the tract of 162 acres which was set off to Robert after the death of his mother in 1770. My father, one day in 1877, went with me to the cornfield of William H. Hughes, who was then the owner of the farm, and pointed out the spot where once stood the log house in which his father and the other children of Robert and Sarah were born.  It was gone, he said, before his time, but when he was a boy, at work in the field, he remarked the great number of brickbats in the locality, and his father explained that it was there the old house stood.  At that time an old pear tree stood there. A darker shade in the soil and a few of the remaining brickbats, only remained to mark the spot when I saw it.  It stood a short distance from the old road which once ran between this farm and the land now belonging to Albert Hooper and others, and about equidistant from the house in which William C. Sinclair formerly lived, (now a double house belonging to William Cady), and the present house on the farm lying south of this, which fell to Thomas Hutchinson, and which, in 1875, was owned by Robert C. Hutchinson, now deceased.

Robert Hutchinson died in 1781, leaving a will, of which the following is a copy:  "Know all Christian people that I, Robert Hutchinson, of Nottingham, in the county of Burlington and state of New Jersey, being weak in body but of perfect and sound mind and memory, thank God, do make and ordain this my last will and testament. First, I will that all my just debts and funeral charges be fully paid.  Second, I will and ordain that my beloved wife, Sarah, have a good and sufficient maintenance out of the proffits of my plantation so long as she shall remain my widow, with liberty to keep two cows also for the use of herself and children, with liberty also to live in my now dwelling house during her widowhood id she chooses, and also one bed and bedding. Third, i give and bequeath unto my two sons, Robert and Sylvanus, all my plantation whereon I now live, to be equally divided between them according to quantity and quality to them, their heirs and assigns forever. But, if either of my said sons should die before they arrive at the age of twenty one years, the survivor to take all my said plantation, he paying unto his sisters; Sarah, Catharine and Elizabeth, the sum of ten pounds, current money, each, when he shall arrive at the age of twenty one years.  Fourth, I will and ordain that my executors hereinafter named dispose of all my personal estate at public sale, within three months after my decease, and the money arising from the sale thereof I give and bequeath (after my just debts and funeral charges are paid), unto my three daughters, Sarah, Catharine and Elizabeth, to be equally divided between them or the survivor of them, when they shall arrive at the age of eighteen years.  I will and order that my said executors rent out my said plantation from time to time untill my sons arrive at age, and the money arising from the rent thereof, I will and order that it be applied towards supporting my widow and also towards supporting and bringing up my children, and if any overplus remain after giving my widow and children a necessary support and maintenance as aforesaid, the remainder I order to be equally divided between my three daughters, Sarah, Catharine and Elizabeth, or the survivor of them. I further will and require that my executors bind out my two sons as they arrive at the age of fourteen years, to some usefull trade, and I hereby constitute and appoint my beloved brothers, John Hutchinson and Jonathan Hutchinson , or the survivor of them, sole executors of this my last will and testament.  In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the twenty seventh day of June, one thousand seven hundred and eighty one (1781)."  Signed - Robert Hutchinson; witnessed by Jno. Watson, Mary Richardson, Richard Morgan [made his mark]; proved at Trenton, September 21, 1781.

Both Robert and Sarah Hutchinson were probably buried in the old Presbyterian Graveyard at Nottingham Square.  She certainly was, although there is nothing there to indicate the fact.  She died of paralysis, or palsy as it was then called, at the house of her son, John Clutch, in Allentown, sometime between 1793 and 1800.  The children of Robert and Sarah Hutchinson were: Sarah, born January 1771; Robert, born November 12, 1772; Catharine, (twin) "died when a girl;" Elizabeth, (twin); Sylvanus, born April 5, 1775.

Sarah Hutchinson, daughter of Robert & Sarah Hutchinson, born January 1, 1771, was ten years old when her father died. She married June 28, 1801, William Preston, of Monmouth County, and for thirty eight years thereafter, they lived on a farm on the road leading from Smithburg to Sweetman's Lane, where he built a woolen mill on Manalapan Brook, which was afterwards destroyed by fire, but was rebuilt, and a few years ago still in existence, together with a saw mill. July 12, 1839, William and Sarah (Hutchinson) Preston, and all their children excepting Joseph (who remained on the homestead farm) removed to Baldwin, Randolph County, Illinois. Sarah died there, April 13, 1846, and her husband, who survived her, also died there, but I do not know at what date.

William & Sarah (Hutchinson) Preston had eight children, viz.: (1) Susanna, born June 1, 1802, died unmarried, at Baldwin, Illinois, February 1851; (2) Sarah, born November 28, 1803, married January 5, 1831, Isaac Johnson, in 1876 was a widow living in Baldwin, Illinois, (3) Joseph, born March 21, 1805, married September 23, 1834, Elizabeth Conover, died on the homestead farm near Smithburg, in the winter of 1881-2, and was buried at Tennent Church [Monmouth County, NJ]; (4) Elizabeth, born November 23, 1806, died unmarried, at Baldwin, Illinois, October 1847; (5) Daniel Clutch, born July 19, 1808, married February 5, 1829, died Baldwin, Illinois, June 2, 1870; (6) Robert H., born September 23, 1810, married August 22, 1830, Elizabeth Fleming and in 1876 was living at Baldwin, Illinois; (7) Rachel, born September 9, 1814, died at the age of about two years and was buried in the family burying ground on the Preston homestead farm near Smithburg, NJ; (8) William, born June 6, 1816, died unmarried, at Baldwin, Illinois, January 18, 1871.

Elizabeth (Betsy) Hutchinson, daughter and surviving twin of Robert & Sarah Hutchinson, was born about the year 1774, married Abraham Rogers, and they lived and died on a farm near Edinburgh, Mercer County, where he also operated a cider press and distillery which disappeared long ago.  The farm is, or was a few years ago, in the possession of Isaac H. Carson. [This may be Isaac Hutchinson Carson, Sr., born 1820.] Both lived to be very old, but they had no children.  Abraham died about 1840 and Betsy about 1845.  They were buried in the Baptist Graveyard at Hamilton Square, but their graves were unmarked and are now unknown.  The =estate, which ought to have been considerable, was chiefly absorbed in a lawsuit between Aaron Eldridge and Daniel Carson, claiming under different wills, which suit Carson eventually won.

Sylvanus Hutchinson, son of Robert & Sarah Hutchinson, born April 5, 1775, married, September 3, 1797, Elizabeth Barber.  In early life, he kept a tavern, at one time at Nottingham Square, and at another, at Sandtown (Mercerville).  March 27, 1811, he purchased of Benjamin Hutchinson, son of Thomas (5); his homestead farm for $3,666, a part of which was paid by the conveyance to Benjamin of the tavern property at "Sandtown," which Sylvanus then owned.  Upon this farm he afterwards lived most of his life, although at the time of his death, he was the tenant of the Olden farm at Princeton.  The children of Sylvanus and Betsey Hutchinson were: Sarah, born in 1799, died January 5, 1881; Robert C., born March 16, 1801; Catharine, born November 29, 1804*, died April 10, 1883; Eliza; and Harriet.

*In mid-December 2004, I was contacted by M. Finkel & Daughter, "America's Leading Antique Sampler and Needlework Dealer," located in Philadelphia regarding a sampler they had in their possession.  I was advised that it had been seen and purchased from a dealer at a show in the New Hope, PA area. It was immediately known to have been made in or around the Princeton, New Jersey area due to its specific "regional characteristics," which dated it circa 1815-1825. The information stitched into the sampler indicated it was the work of a Catharine Hutchinson, born November 29, 1804 and it had been completed in 1817.  I was advised by the dealer that they had their researcher in New Jersey begin to search for information on this Catharine Hutchinson to verify the genealogical info on the sampler. Verification of the Catharine Hutchinson was first found in my previously published work on the Hutchinson family in New Jersey, done in the 1970s, which was located in the New Jersey State Library. From the information found there, the researcher conducted her own research and verified both my genealogical work and the sampler's stitched data by obtaining various documents from the NJ State Archives.  From my contacts at the NJ State Archives, the researcher was able to obtain a phone number for me in Delaware. 

As I have stated, on Catharine's sampler she verifies her birth date for us as "29 November 1804" and also tells us when she completed the sampler by stitching "finished her work in 1817" on it. The rest is history, as Catharine's sampler has finally made its way back into the Hutchinson family in December 2004 after all these years. The sampler measures 16.5" x 12" and framed into a beveled cherry frame with conservation glass, it measures 19" x 14.5." It is worked in silk on tan linen   [To view the sampler, click on the following - Photo #1 , Photo #2.]

Sarah Hutchinson, daughter of Sylvanus & Betsy (Barber) Hutchinson, was born in 1799. She married George Hutchinson [son of Capt. Amos and Elizabeth (Ford) Hutchinson, the son of John & Jerusha Hutchinson].

Robert C. Hutchinson, only son of Sylvanus and Betsy (Barber) Hutchinson, was born March 16, 1801, married first Christina Hill [daughter of Smith and Elizabeth (Nutt) Hill], who died March 20, 1836, aged 33 years, 4 months and 18 days.  He married second, Ellen Elizabeth Hicks, of New York, who survived him, dying at Bordentown, NJ, September 16, 1902.  He was a wealthy and prominent man, living at "Sandhills" (Yardville), Mercer County, where he carried on for many years the mills, lumber business, store, and other interests, was Assemblyman and Senator for Mercer County, and at the time of his death, was president of the Bordentown Banking Company.  He died September 4, 1882, and is buried in the Baptist cemetery at Hamilton Square.  He succeeded his father in the ownership of the Thomas Hutchinson farm above mentioned, which was occupied by his brother-in-law, George Hutchinson, until the death of the latter in 1864.  He also owned the farm lying south of it, later owned and occupied by David Lee.

His children were: Clarke, born in 1828, married Phebe Ann, daughter of Jonathan & Rachel (Forman) Hutchinson, of Windsor, (of the Jonathan Hutchinson family); succeeded to his father's business at Yardville, where he died December 31, 1897, and was buried at Hamilton Square. Clarke & Phebe Ann had one child,[he actually had three children - Robert; Jonathan, born 24 August 1857, died 30 November 1857; & Ida Louise, born 12 February 1861, died 19 June 1964], Robert, who became a physcian, married a daughter of Adam Exton [Eleanore] of Trenton, and died, leaving a daughter, [Ida] who married ________ Schweizer, also, of Trenton; [Sarah, born 29 December 1833, died 26 January 1834]; Sylvanus, married Maddellen [Maddellen S.; born in CT], daughter of John C. Viot, and lived at Yardville; both now deceased, leaving no children; Elizabeth S., married Edward T. Combs, of Upper Freehold; Julia, married Hugh Newell, of Bordentown; Christiana, married Franklin Howard, of Ellisdale; Robert C., a lawyer, of Bordentown.

Catherine Hutchinson, daughter of Sylvanus & Betsy (Barber) Hutchinson, was the second wife of James A. Hutchinson, son of Amos & Phebe Hutchinson,[who was a son of Jonathan Hutchinson, of the Jonathan Hutchinson family.]

Eliza Hutchinson, daughter of Sylvanus & Betsy (Barber) Hutchinson, married Rev. Alden Scovel, a Presbyterian  minister who for many years kept a boarding school in Bordentown, and to whom more than to any other person, the Presbyterian Church in that town appears to have owed its origin,  Of their children were: Philip S. Courtlandt, S. William C. and Alden C, all of whom, I think, were all  lawyers, and all now deceased. She died November 5, 1892, aged 87 years.

Harriet Hutchinson, daughter of Sylvanus & Betsy (Barber) Hutchinson, married John R. Combs of Bordentown.

Robert Hutchinson, eldest son of Robert (3) and Sarah (McClutch/Clutch) Hutchinson, born on the homestead farm at Nottingham Square, November 12, 1772, was nine years old at the death of his father in 1781.  He learned the blacksmith trade in the shop of his half-brother, Daniel Clutch, at Allentown, but does not appear to have ever made any use of it afterwards, but was always a farmer.  He also taught school, in the winter months, at various times and places of which I can give no definite account.  By the will of their father, Robert and his brother Sylvanus, upon reaching their majority, came in to possession of the homestead farm, which they appear to have immediately sold to Thomas Butcher, and April 13, 1796, they purchased of Samuel P[?] Forman, for 700 pounds, a farm of 252 acres, lying on the north west side of Manalapan Brook, in what was then Freehold but is now Millstone Township, Monmouth County; bounded south by lands of William Cubberley, north by Peter Johnson and William Cheeseman; east by Jonathan Forman and Joseph Preston; being part of the tract formerly belonging to Captain Michael Sweetman, of Revolutionary memory.  The money with which they paid for this farm was in silver, and they carried it in a half bushel measure.  They lived there one year, their sister, Sarah, being their housekeeper, and incidentally making the acquaintance of William Preston, who afterwards became her husband.  During this year, too, Robert was married to Rebecca Forman, a daughter of Jonathan Forman above mentioned and Margaret his wife.  They were married in "Old Tennent Church," and doubtless by Rev. John Woodhull, D. D., who was pastor of that church from 1777 until his death in 1824. On April 1, 1797, "Robert Hutchinson of the township of Lower Freehold, ...and Rebeckah, his wife, and Sylvanus Hutchinson, his brother, of the same place," convey the above farm of 252 acres to "Joseph Hendrickson, of the township of Nottingham in the county of Burlington, for $2,523.60...."

November 15, 1800, Robert Hutchinson and Rebecca, his wife, of Lower Freehold... Monmouth County...released to Levi Nutt, of Nottingham...for 100 pounds... all their right and title to a piece of land that ... appears to have been the old tavern property at Hamilton Square.  In 1808, Robert and Rebecca Hutchinson had returned to Nottingham, and were living on what was formerly known as the Samuel Hughes farm, on the northeasterly side of the road leading from Hamilton Square to Mercerville, and my father was born there on the twelfth day of May in that year; but the first place he remembered living was the farm lying southeast of that, afterwards known as the Narraway farm, which he purchased at about that time....About the year 1814, Robert rented from Henry Hutchinson the farm of 182 acres which was set off to John (2) in 1770, to which he removed, but continued also to farm his own place until about three years later, when he sold it to one Samuel Nutt. My father in trying to fix the date of this removal, remembered being pleased because in his new home he could reach the door latch, which was lower than that in the Narraway house.  They remained there for seven or eight years, until about 1820 or 1821, when Robert having become the owner of the homestead farm which he and his brother Sylvanus had sold when they went to Sweetman's Lane, they removed there.  Not to the old log house, which was gone at that time, but to a new frame house located on a separate lot, on the northerly side of the road, opposite the house, which, when I was a boy, was one of the best in the village. Squire William C. Sinclair then owned the farm and lived there.  It is still standing, is a double house, in good condition, owned by William Cady and occupied by tenants.  Where the apple orchard used to be east of it to the Presbyterian Church Sheds, is now a row of dwellings. Its connection to the farm ceased many years ago, when the late John Clark built the present residence thereon.  The lot on which it is located appears to have been that already mentioned as having been sold by William Appleton and wife to Robert Hutchinson in 1829, and to have included the premises where William Cady now lives.

March 7, 1833, Robert Hutchinson and Rebecca his wife of the township of Nottingham...county of Burlington, sold to William Sinclair, of the township of West Windsor, county of Middlesex... All that arm... in Nottingham ... of 123.66 acres strict measure.  Upon leaving the homestead farm, now shorn of many of its acres and much changed from the three cornered tract of the first Robert Hutchinson, my grandfather removed to a farm lying north of Newtown or Robbinsville, in what is now Washington Township, Mercer County, and which, in 1822, was described as being [then] in East Windsor Township, Middlesex County...containing 74 acres...The public road which passes through this farm was laid out in 1844, chiefly at the instance [insistence] of Robert Hutchinson.  He lived on this farm until his death, which occurred May 28, 1848, at the age of seventy-five years, being stricken with apoplexy while alone in his barn, shearing sheep. It is said of him that in all his life he was never ill enough to lie in bed.  He was a large framed, well built man, and for a number of years was Constable in Nottingham Township, an office for which he was well suited by his strength and courage.  I have heard mentioned a number of instances in which these qualities were brought out in the discharge of his duties. Living at a time when pedestrianism had not yet become a fad or a profession, he was probably one of the greatest walker of his time.  It was no uncommon thing for him to take a school half a dozen miles distant from his home, and walk to and from it every morning and night, leaving his horses standing idle in the stables. When he was bout forty years old (about 1812), he took a trip to what was then Miami Territory, now the state of Ohio, his object being to see the country with a view of settling in it.  He went out with parties who were removing there by wagon, but he returned home on foot, walking the whole distance, from Cincinnati to Trenton Bridge, seven hundred miles, in fourteen days; just fifty miles a day.  Soon after he started homeward, he fell in with a man on horseback and for several days they traveled at about the same speed, lodging at the same houses each night until their routes diverged.  He was at that time very anxious to secure a tract of land which long ago became a part of the city of Cincinnati, and remove there, but his wife, my grandmother, was unwilling to go, and the idea was abandoned.  His was the first "Dearborn" wagon brought into the neighborhood; and his neighbors considered him remarkable in that he always took a weekly newspaper.

    Rebecca, wife of Robert Hutchinson, survived her husband many years.  After his death, the farm was purchased by their son, Sylvanus, with whom she made her home until she died, February 9, 1870, in her ninetieth year.  Both Robert and Rebecca Hutchinson are buried in the Methodist graveyard at Hamilton Square.

[The Methodist Church then in Nottingham, Burlington County, outgrew their building on what is now known as Nottingham Way, in Hamilton Square, Mercer County, NJ, and the building was sold. Eventually, the owners of the property destroyed the graveyard and had it paved over for a parking lot. For many years, the building and property was used as an auction house. The new United Methodist Church in another location in Hamilton Township has a plaque of the wall which supposedly lists the names of those buried under the parking lot. Robert & Rebecca's names are on it.]

They were originally Baptists but went over to the Methodist Church after their son, Aaron, became a preacher of that denomination.  They had eight children, as follows: Margaret, born October 15, 1798; Jonathan Forman, born July 16, 1800; Elizabeth Rogers, born July 12, 1803, John Forman, born March 4, 1806; Abraham Rogers, born May 12, 1808, Sylvanus, born June 14, 1811; Caroline Matilda, born March 22, 1814; and Aaron Forman, born November 22, 1816.

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Margaret Hutchinson, the daughter of Robert and Rebecca (Forman) Hutchinson, , born October 15, 1798, married February 1830, Lemuel S. Combs.  He was a young man in the employ of William Tindall, Esq. on the farm near Dutch Neck where the late Elwood Rue afterwards lived, and was said to be of good repute, although of his farming and past life, nothing was known.  About two years after his marriage with "Peggy" Hutchinson, a stranger who stopped at the tavern in Nottingham Square saw him there, and identified him as a former inmate of the New Jersey State Prison.  He told this to the landlord (Thomas Butcher), who told Sylvanus Hutchinson.  Sylvanus told his brother Robert, and they two visited the State Prison, where, upon an examination of the records, it appeared that Lemuel S. Combs had served a term in that institution for stealing a horse.  This, which was related to me by my father in 1877, is all I know about the matter.  The after life of Lemuel Combs was correct enough, according to the standard of those times; although his occupation was keeping tavern, a business which was then considered quite respectable.  He first kept the tavern at Edinburgh, or Assanpink, as it was then called & then at Plainsboro, and last at Red Tavern (now Applegarth), below Hightstown.  He died at Hightstown, in the winter of 1838-9, and was buried in the old Baptist graveyard there, but his grave is unmarked and unknown.  His widow returned to her father, with three small children, of whom the eldest could hardly have been more than seven years old at that time....

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Jonathan "Forman" Hutchinson, son of Robert and Rebecca (Forman) Hutchinson, , born July 16, 1800, married, first, Lucy Mc Chesney, who died a few months later, and whose grave, at Old Yellow Meeting House, is unmarked and unknown. [I dispute this first marriage and believe that he only married four times based upon the evidence available per marriage notices and obits.] He married second, Mary, a daughter of William W. Cubberley, Esq., who died July 28, 1857, and was buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, at Hightstown, N.J.  He married third, Catalina, widow of John H. Forman, who died February 13, 1866, and was buried by the side of her first husband, in the Baptist Graveyard at Hamilton Square.  He married, fourth, Margaret, widow of Daniel Stryker, a sister to Catalina, who died February 16, 1878.  He married fifth, Sarah, widow of John Rue Stults, and daughter of John C. Bergen, who survived him.  This much married man had only one child, viz; Lucy Ann, the daughter of his second wife. She married Josiah Gordon, and they lived on a farm in Washington Twp.,which Robert Hutchinson had given his son Forman when he grew up and married, and which Forman sold to his son-in-law after his marriage to his daughter.  Josiah became a very large land owner in that locality.  He died April 1, 1900, and was buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery at Hightstown.  They had two children, viz; (1) Mercy H., who married Voorhees Cubberley, son of Ezekiel, who died early, leaving her a widow, without children.  She lives, with her mother, on the home farm above mentioned. (2) Forman H....when Robert Hutchinson, [father of Jonathan Forman Hutchinson] died, his whole estate amounted to less than what he had given Forman.  This being the case, he devised to Forman a legacy of five dollars, and left the residue to his other children.  Forman rebelled, and tried to break the will, but only succeeded in showing a good deal of bad principle without accomplishing any results.  After his daughter's marriage, he removed to Hamilton Square, where he lived a number of years on a farm owned by Allison E. Nutt.  His last residence was in the village of Windsor, where he died [10 September 1884].  He is buried by the side of his second wife, in Cedar Hill Cemetery, at Hightstown.

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Elizabeth Rogers Hutchinson, daughter of Robert & Rebecca (Forman) Hutchinson, born July 12, 1803, married Eli Cubberley, son of William W. Cubberley, Esq., and a brother to the second wife of Forman Hutchinson above mentioned.  He died May 5, 1864, and she died April 3, 1866.  Both are buried in the Baptist Graveyard at Hamilton Square.  They lived on a farm lying near the province line in Hamilton Township, which was afterwards owned by the late George C. Dye.  Their children were: (1) Lucy, born July 28, 1823, married Caleb Austin, who died in Trenton, August 5, 1889.  She died November 18, 1906, leaving children. (2) Rebecca, married George Katzenbach, of Trenton; both deceased, leaving children. (3) Sylvanus H., married Ellen, daughter of Richard Hughes, was a baker in Princeton, where he died recently. (4) Catharine married Charles Kranft; now a widow living in Trenton. (5) Samuel, married Maggie Quick; died in Trenton several years ago.

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John Forman Hutchinson, son of Robert & Rebecca (Forman) Hutchinson,  born March 4, 1806, married Gertrude Ann Snedaker.  He was a wheelwright by trade and carried on that business at various places, then for some years he lived at the corner of Broad and Front Streets in Trenton, where Washington Markets now is, and where he kept a grocery store, which failed, as all his enterprises appears to have done.  He died in Trenton, September 15, 1888.  his wife died ....Both are buried in the Methodist Graveyard at Hamilton Square.  Their children were: Louisa, married Andrew Smock, of Forked River, NJ; George Woodhull, married Ann; John, married....

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Sylvanus Hutchinson, son of Robert & Rebecca (Forman) Hutchinson, born June 14, 1811, married November 15, 1837, Phebe, daughter of Hartshorne Thompson, of Monmouth County. He succeeded his father on the farm near Newtown, where he died July 24, 1892.  Phebe, his wife, died January 9, of the same year. They are buried in the Presbyterian Cemetery at Hamilton Square. They had one child, viz; Adoniran "Judson", born October 4, 1844, married January 1868, Eliza, daughter of James P. and Mary (Gordon) Allen, and died December 27, 1878, leaving two sons; Newton and Elmer, who, with their mother, now occupy the same farm.

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Caroline "Matilda" Hutchinson, daughter of Robert & Rebecca (Forman) Hutchinson, born March 22, 1814, married William I. Robins, and they lived on the premises now or late belonging to Harrison Hutchinson near the farm formerly of her father, above mentioned. Their children were three sons: (1) James C., who married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and Ann (Cubberley) Dye; (2) William Henry, who married first, Laurette, daughter of Nahor and Lydia (McCabe) Dilatush, and second, Emma, daughter of Dillon Applegate, of Yardville; (3) Sylvanus H. married, January 28, 1880, Lavina, daughter of William Cady, of Hamilton Square, now deceased, leaving no children.

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Rev. Aaron Forman Hutchinson, son of Robert & Rebecca (Forman) Hutchinson, born November 22, 1816, married March 27, 1837, Elizabeth, daughter of James and Mary Davison, of Monmouth County.  In early life, he was a school teacher, and a small boy I [Charles Robbins Hutchinson] was one of his pupils, at one time at Newtown, and at another in Hamilton Square.  Then he became a Methodist preacher; then a dentist, located first at Hackettstown, Warren County and afterwards for several years at Lambertville.  The he became a Presbyterian minister, preaching at Decatur, Pike County, Indiana, until about 1877, when the failure of his wife's health led to their return East.  They now settled in Trenton, and he filled a pulpit in Morrisville, PA., until incapacitated by age and infirmity.  He died June 30, 1896, in his eightieth year, and his ever faithful wife died July 14, 1896, in her eighty first year.  They were buried in the Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Hamilton Square, [Mercer Co, New Jersey]. Their children were: (1) Rebecca Hutchinson, born January 25, 1841& died November 15, 1892, married at Lambertville, NJ, 7 October, 1863, Alfred H. Barber, who died a suicide, while they were still living there, leaving her with three children - Thomas and Alfred N., born May 19, 1867, now living in Trenton; and a daughter, who died in the West; (2) Robert Newton, born December 1, 1842, married November 19, 1874, at Jerseyville, Illinois, Etta, daughter of Abijah Davis, and grand-daughter of Elijah Davis, an old time tavern keeper at Newtown or Robbinsville, which was then known as "Cross Keys."  Newton was a dentist and lived in Trinidad, Colorado.  It is said that he died in 1908.

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Abraham Rogers Hutchinson, born May 12, 1808, son of Robert & Rebecca (Forman) Hutchinson, was born near Nottingham Square [now Hamilton Square], May 12, 1808, and learned the trade of cabinet maker in the shop of George Sinclair at Allentown, [Monmouth Co., NJ].  He married in Allentown, on January 24, 1830, Ann Walker Robbins, the eldest daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Steward) Robbins, of that village, with the ceremony being performed by Rev. Henry Perkins, who was then the pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Allentown and Nottingham.  They settled at Nottingham Square (as it was then called) and he carried on the business of a cabinet maker and undertaker there for fifty seven years thereafter.  In 1888, when he was eighty years of age, he gave up business and removed to Allentown, where he died, (of paralysis), May 1, 1889.  His widow, after his death, removed to the home of her daughter, in Trenton, and afterwards, when Martha, daughter of latter and her grand-daughter, became the wife of John E. Thropp, Jr.  They both accompanied her to her new home at 359 Hamilton Avenue, and there came to be four generations of the same family living together there.  She died there, suddenly of internal hemorrhage in 1900 and was buried by the side of her husband, in the cemetery of the Presbyterian Church at Hamilton Square, of which church they were life long members. The children of Abraham R. and Ann W. Hutchinson were: Martha Mc Kean Hutchinson, born November 23, 1831and Charles Robbins Hutchinson, born May 8, 1838.

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Martha McKean Hutchinson, born November 23, 1831, daughter of Abraham Rogers & Ann W. (Robbins) Hutchinson, was born November 23, 1831. She married James G. West, born 1825, on December 31, 1851.  He died in Chambersburg in 1887 and was buried in the Presbyterian Church Cemetery, at Hamilton Square. She (in 1909) is still living in the family of her daughter, the wife of John E. Thropp, before mentioned. Their children were Franklin Pearson West, Anne Hutchinson West, Charles Hutchinson West, Abraham Lincoln West, Martha Robbins West, and Mary Hutchinson West. 

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Charles Robbins Hutchinson, born on May 8, 1838, only son of Abraham Rogers & Ann W. (Robbins) Hutchinson,(and compiler of this record), born at Hamilton Square, began his education in the public school at the age of four years, and at fourteen left home to learn the rudiments of merchantile life. Was engaged in the "general store" business from 1861 to 1885, chiefly at Allentown, NJ, where he still resides, having since that time, been occupied in fire insurance, conveyancing and other work of like character.  He married July 24, 1859, Mary, daughter of Clayton and Elizabeth (Darby) Coward, of New Egypt, NJ, who was born February 27, 1829, and died August 3, 1894.  Their children were: Barton Bellangee Hutchinson, born June 10, 1860, and Mary Frances Hutchinson, born December 11, 1861. Charles married (2) on November 30, 1895, Isabella Beatty Wright, eldest daughter of Archibald Alexander Howell, M.D., and Isabella (Beatty), his wife, of Allentown, who was born February 24, 1844, and married October 8, 1868, Edward J. Wright, of Greenwich, Connecticut, by whom she had two daughters, and from whom she was divorced August 12, 1892.  She died April 1, 1907.

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Mary Frances Hutchinson, born on December 11, 1861, only daughter of Charles Robbins & Mary (Coward) Hutchinson,was born at Allentown, NJ, married February 24, 1886, George V. Taylor, only child of Henry R. and Kate (Vanderbeek) Taylor, and they now live on the homestead farm of his deceased father, about three miles easterly from Allentown, in Upper Freehold Township, Monmouth Co., New Jersey.  They have one child:  Henry Barton Taylor, born March 11, 1895.

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Barton Bellangee Hutchinson, born on June 10, 1860, only son of Charles Robbins & Mary (Coward) Hutchinson, was born at Allentown, NJ, was educated in public schools, studied law with Holt & Brother, at Trenton, NJ, and was admitted to the bar as an attorney-at-law, on June 10, 1881...receiving his counselor's degree three years later.  He located in Trenton, where he soon became prominent, not only in his profession but in public affairs: was vice preseident of the Board of Trade in 1888 and 1889, president of that body in 1890 and 1891, a member of the NJ Assembly in 1892 and 1893 and leader of the Republican minority in the latter year, was Senator from Mercer County from 1904 to 1907, when he declined the nomination for a second term for the reason that he was not in sympathy with the "machine."  He married October 1, 1885, Sarah M. Hulme, daughter of John L. & Anna Maria (Meirs) Hulme, of New Egypt, NJ, who was born August 24, 1859, and they have a fine home at 489 West State Street, Trenton.  Their children are: Charles Percy Hutchinson, born October 17, 1887; Laurance Willis Hutchinson, born May 14, 1892; Anna Hulme Hutchinson, born November 20, 1893; and Alice Paxton Hutchinson, born June 29, 1896.

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