Isaac
Hutchinson Bible – NJ
[and later
possessed 1796 by Hannah (Hutchinson) Carver, dau. of Isaac Hutchinson]
OXFORD –
Printed by John Baskett, Printer to the University
MDCCXXIII
Isaac Hutchinson and Mary
Allison joined in marriage the twelve day of September in the year of our Lord
Anno. Dom. 1728
The time that Thomas Hutchinson was born the Seventh day of July
and sixth day of the week a bout or between then tenth and the twelth of a
clock. The son of Mary and Isaac
Hutchinson, the son of John Hutchinson.
John Hutchinson, the son of Thomas Hutchinson Senr. Anno. Dom. 1729.
The time that Elizabeth Hutchison was Born the twenty five of
August 1730 three a clock for the morning, Daughter of Mary and Isaac Hutchinson.
The time that John Hutchinson was Born the twenty five of March
1732 Between one of the Clock and two in the morning and the first Day of the
week the son of Mary and Isaac Hutchinson.
The time that Doritey Hutchinson was Born the sixteenth day of November
and the sixth day of the week Between twelve and one a clock at night 1733, The
daughter of Mary and Isaac Hutchinson.
The Time that Isaac Hutchinson was born, Juner, the fifth day of
July 1735 and the seventh day of the week between nine and then of the Clock at
night, the son of Mary and Isaac Hutchinson.
The time that Sarah Hutchinson was Born the eighteenth Day of
June the seventh day of the week two o clock in the afternoon 1737, the
daughter of Isaac and Mary, his wife.
Mary departed this life the sixteenth day of September 1739.
Then as Isaac Hutchinson of Trenton in the Countey of Hunterdon
and Province of New Jersey: and Phebe Ward of the same place aforesaid: having
declared their Intentions of marriage with each other before several Monthly
Meetings of the People Called Quakers at Chesterfield in the Countey of
Burlington: according to the good order used amongst them: and gived in
marriage the Twenty Ninth day of the Eleventh Month called January 1740.
The time that Phebe Hutchinson was Born the fifth day of August
and the Second day of the week: half hour past one In the afternoon, the
daughter of Isaac and Phebe his wife 1743.
The time that Isaac Storr Hutchinson was born the first day of
June and the first day of the week six a clock in the afternoon the Son of
Isaac Hutchinson and Phebe his wife 1746.
The time that Doritey Hutchinson was born the twenty fourth day
of April 1748, one a clock in the morning and the first day of the week, the
daughter of Isaac Hutchinson and Phebe his wife.
The time that Thomas Hutchinson was Born the eighth day of July
one a clock in the morning the forst day of the week, the son of Isaac and
Phebe his wife 1750.
The time that Mary Hutchinson was born the eighteen day of September
two a clock in the morning and the second day of the week the daughter of Isaac
and Phebe his wife, 1752.
The time that Marmaduke Hutchinson was born the seventh day of
April four clock and 32 minutes In the morning and the Second day of the week
the Son of Isaac and Phebe his wife, 1755.
The time that Hannah Hutchinson was Born the seventh day of May
and the Seventh day of the week in the hour of Twelve at night 1757, the
daughter of Isaac Hutchinson and Phebe his wife.
Jacob Carver and Mary S. Kindle was married March 30, 1834.
Townsend Speakman Carver, son of Jacob & Mary Carver was
born August 17th 1837, four in the afternoon.
James, son of Mary [ink blotted and writing stopped].
James Carver, son of Jacob & Mary his wife Was born June 27th
1840, at nine o’ clock at night and departed this life in four hours after his
birth.
[broken and missing]muel Carver was born the 14 of the 10 month
1757, he departed this Life 21 of the 10 month 1807, being 50 years and 7 days
old.
Hannah Carver was born the fourth of May 1757 and departed this
life the 17th day of July 1835, aged 78 years, 2 months and 13 days.
Sarah Carver Daughter of Samuel and Hannah his wife, Was Born
The Second of the Tenth Month One thousand Seven Hundred & Eighty three,
Four in the Morning.
Jacob Carver, son of Samuel and Hannah his wife Was Born, the
tenth Day of the Eleventh Month one Thousand, Seven hundred, and Eighty Seven,
Ten at Night.
Sam Carver, Son of Saml. & Hannah his Wife, Was Born the
fifteenth Day of the 12th Month 179[torn and missing] half past Nine
in the Eveni[torn and missing].
Carver Douglass, Son of Jos[torn and
missing] Sarah his wife was Born the [torn and missing] two in the afternoon
--- 180[torn and missing].
Other written items found within the Bible:
June 2, 1845 - Yourself and your family are respectfully invited
to attend the funeral of Miss Mary Ann Carver, on Tuesday afternoon (June 3rd)
at 5 o’clock, from the residence of Samuel C. Douglass, No. 16 Federal
Street. [This is in Philadelphia, PA]
July 17, 1835 – Friday.
Yourself and your family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral
of Hannah Carver, from her late residence, No. 96, Spruce Street, on Sunday
Morning, at 8 o’clock. J. Coates, Jr., Printer, S.E. corner of South and Second
streets. [This is believed to be
Philadelphia, PA]
This is to Certify that Townsend S. Carver, of Philadelphia in
the State of Pennsylvania and Standick[?] of Philadelphia in the State of
Pennsylvania were joined together in Holy Matrimony by me, on the thirteenth
day of January in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty
Three. J. Crouch[?], Minister of the
Gospel.
This man Certifn – To all persons whom it concerns that on the
day above written in the City of Philadelphia and Commonwealth of Penna., Jacob
Carver of the one part and Mary S. Kendle of the other having agreed and
covenanted to live together as Man & Wife and having plighted the solemn
vows of Duty and Affection were by me united in the honorable and sacred bonds
of Lawful Marriage. Henry G. King [Whatever was above written was missing.]
Burlington County [NJ] - Certificate of Marriage for Bathsheba
Price with Samuel Kindle
This certifies whom it may
concern that Bathseba Price was married to Samuel Kindle and was by me
pronounced man and wife in the Preference of the subscribing witnesses. Adin Kindell, Mary Ann Price, William Price,
Junior, made his mark. Given under my
hand at Mount Holly – This eight Day of June in the year of our Lord one
Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Three 1793.
Peter Shiras J. Peace.
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PRINCIPALLY A
TIME LINE OF THOMAS HUTCHINSON
BUT INCLUDES GEORGE HUTCHESON, JOHN
HUTCHINSON, RALPH HUTCHINSON AND ROBERT HUTCHESON OF DELAWARE, MARYLAND, AND
EARLY NEW JERSEY
THE FOLLOWING WORK IS FROM UNAUTHORED NOTES,
PROBABLY BY ELMER TINDALL HUTCHINSON (1882-1954), PRESIDENT OF THE NEW JERSEY
HISTORICAL SOCIETY, THE GENEALOGICAL WORK OF CHARLES ROBBINS HUTCHINSON
(1828-1927), OF NEW JERSEY AND THE GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH OF RICHARD S.
HUTCHINSON,
ALL OF NEW JERSEY
The earliest known
progenitor of the Hutchinson family in the Mid-Atlantic area was Thomas
Hutchinson, who lived in Beverley, a village on the Hull River, Yorkshire,
England, about eight miles from Kingston on Hull, which is situated at its
confluence with the Humber.
"The Quaker founders of
West Jersey were definitely men of means: few wealthy, among whom Penn was an
outstanding example; some whose designs exceeded their resources, such as
Byllynge and Fenwick; and scores of others who could spend a few hundred pounds
or hundreds of pounds for a tract of land and still have enough money left to
bring their families and perhaps a few servants over to settle it. They were
either plain farmers ("yeoman") or craftsmen and tradesmen, rather
than gentry...Among those who purchased shares in West Jersey before emigrating
were...George Hutcheson, distiller...Thomas Hutchinson
[yeoman]..."[Burlington County Court Book of West Jersey, introduction,
page xi.]
"A block of ten, a
whole tenth of the province, was taken by five Yorkshiremen, Byllynge's
principal creditors, in settlement of debts amounting to 3500 pounds...Of the
five men, Mahlon Stacy and George Hutcheson are familiar names in the Burlington
Court Book; Thomas Hutchinson emigrated but in 1687 was living in Maryland;
Joseph Helmsley came on the first ship to Burlington ...but probably returned
soon; while Thomas Pearson remained in England (NJA, xxi, 454)";
[Burlington County Court Book of West Jersey, introduction, page xxvii.]
AGeorge Hutchinson/Hutcheson, >of Sheffield, in the county of York,
distiller,= ... settled in West Jersey, he was
one of the commissioners appointed by the Proprietors, March 2, 1676, to lay out
the town of Burlington and was a signer of the >Concessions=, which
bore the date the following day...He was also a prominent member of the Society
of Friends, as appears by the record of Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, wherein
he was appointed on important committees and in 1687, a >first day meeting= was established at his house...After
disposing of the business which brought him to West Jersey in 1676, he returned
to England, settled up his affairs there, and sometime between 1677 and 1685,
returned here with his family...He settled on a plantation which apparently
comprised all the eastern position of Springfield Township, Burlington County,
including within its limits the present villages of Juliustown and Jobstown,
and the Quaker Meeting house known as >Upper
Springfield=...It was called Onnianickon:
an Indian name, and variably spelled...A letter written by >Geo. Hutcheson= to Mahlon Stacy, is dated at >Onnianickon alias Carmell= in 1687. Besides his plantation of
Onnianickon, George Hutchinson, soon after his settlement, located a tract of
land in what a few years later became the township of Nottingham...I have never
yet found any conveyance giving the boundaries of this tract or the quantity of
land it contained, but it lay to the southeast of the present city of Trenton,
near enough to be designated as >at
the ffalls,= and included what is now Broad
Street Park, the residence of George Hutchinson being located where is now the
old stone house (built by Isaac Watson in 1708), on the farm owned by Andrew K.
Rowan, about half a mile southwest of the White Horse Road...Here, as well as
at Onnianickon, George Hutchinson kept an establishment, his family being
sometimes at one place and sometimes at the other...@
Joseph Hutchinson, who was another
early settler at Onnianickon and who appeared to have been of the same family
as George the AProprietor@ and Robert the ACordwayner@, is first met with 12 mo. 14, 1686,
at the marriage of Anthony Woodward and Hannah Folkes, being the only person by
the name of Hutchinson who witnessed that ceremony and this is the first
mention I have found of that name in the records of the Chesterfield Monthly
Meeting.... What became of him after 1689, I do not know. I have never found
the record of any conveyance of land to or from him, or any settlement of his
estate. I suspect he removed from the province, probably to Bucks County,
Pennsylvania. [Writings of Charles Robbins Hutchinson]
AWriters generally have mentioned
George and Thomas Hutchinson, have assumed that they were brothers. While they
may have been, and probably were, there is no real evidence that this was the
case. One always signed his name Thomas Hutchinson and the other George
Hutcheson, and even where both joined in the same deed, this difference occurs.
This, however, proves nothing, for the early settlers often made similar
alterations in their names apparently with a view to distinguishing their
particular branch from others of the same family or name. An indication that
this may have been the case with George Hutchinson is found in the fact that
where he was spoken of by others he was very often called George Hutchinson,
and immediately after his death, he is thus designated by his son-in-law and
executor, James Stanfield. It is also noticeable that the signature of George
to his will, and that of John, son of Thomas, to his will, are both written
Hutchison. A [Writings of Charles Robbins
Hutchinson]
We do not know exactly when
Thomas Hutchinson came to America but we have been able to narrow it down.
There is a tradition that he came to America in the ship Kent which
arrived in the Delaware River in 1677 but it is probably without foundation of
truth. Deed research in Maryland and New Jersey shows that he may have come to
this country later than 1677 or made more that one voyage.
John Fenwick had purchased
one half of the whole Province of New Jersey from John, Lord Berkeley, on March
18, 1673/74 and with Edward Byllinge had conveyed the western half to William
Penn, Gavin Lawrie, and Nicholas Lucas, on February 10, 1674/75. Penn, Lawrie,
and Lucas were Trustees for Byllinge's creditors and the deed provided that
West New Jersey was to be divided into 100 equal parts or shares. The Trustees
were to have 90 parts and Fenwick was to retain 10 parts. Fenwick's share
included all of the present counties of Cumberland and Salem and also a part of
Cape May County.
TIME LINE
1640 - Thomas Hutchinson was born in
England. [History of Heston Family.]
17 Nov 1657 – Miles Cooke marries
Radagonde Dall, St. Andrews, Holborn, London, England (IGI).
26 Feb 1661 – Miles Cooke, of Rediffe,
Surry, Mariner, widower, abt 32, & Dorothy Underwood, of the same,
Spinster, abt 20, at own disposition, parents dead; alleged by Susanna, the
wife of Wm. Rocke, of Whitechapel, Middlesex, at Rediffe afsd. [England:
Canterbury – Marriage Licenses Issued By the Archibishop of Canterbury –
1660-1668. (Ancestry.com)] [Remember
this Dorothy because she and her husband lived in Talbot Co, Maryland at
“Cooke’s Hope”, which was granted to him in 1659, and was located next to
Thomas Hutchinson, Tanner, of Talbot Co., Maryland.
29th of 3 month 1668 -
We read in
the Friends Records of Yorkshire that Thomas Hutchinson, of Beverley, a member
of the Hull Monthly Meeting, and Dorothy Storr, daughter of Marmaduke Storr of
Owstwicks, a member of Hilston Monthly Meeting in Holderness in the East Riding
were married 29th of 3 month (May 29), 1668.
29 March 1669 - A declaration concerning the
criminal acts and ensuing capture of Samuel Bugby, testimony of James Bowne et
al re: Bugby's theft in Maryland, etc.
"Wee the Abovesaid
Parties doth hereby Declare, That about the 10th of this instant month, two men
named Ralph Hutchinson and Christopher Andrews, coming to Portland poynt whare
the above named parties live and inhabit.." [Nichols/Lovelace Papers
22:55]
6 April 1669 - Re: The examination of Samuel Bugby
and of witnesses at his trial; "...Christopher Andrews and Ralph
Hutchinson, coming from Delaware met James Sandylands at Andrew Carrs Island
hee being returning from the pursuite of the prisoner..."
[Nichols/Lovelace Papers 22:62]
30 April 1675 - Thomas Hutchinson's first purchase
of land in New Jersey was a tract of 2,000 acres in Fenwick's Colony patented
to him by John Fenwick of Binfield, Berkshire, the Proprietor of the Salem
Tract in West New Jersey. He was then described "of Beverley, in the
County of Yorke, tanner", [Salem Deeds, No 1 folio 30]. This tract of
2,000 acres was situated on the Cohansey River in Salem County and was sold in
four lots of 500 acres each by his son, John Hutchinson, on January 6th,
1700/01 [West Jersey Records - Liber B, Part 2, Folio 685; Salem No. 1].
May 1675 - Ralph Hutchinson had an order of
the New Castle court delivered to him. [NY Hist. Manuscripts - Delaware
Documents, part of New York Colonial Documents, 1664-1682]
13 May 1675 - Ralph Hutchinson is a jury member
of a special court at New Castle regarding the case of whether James Sandilands
was responsible for causing the death of an Indian. [NY Hist. Manuscripts -
Delaware Documents, part of New York Colonial Documents, 1664-1682]
He was also recorded as
attorney for a James Boyde in a civil case involving a dispute over an auction
of goods. [NY Hist. Manuscripts - Delaware Documents, part of New York Colonial
Documents, 1664-1682]
1676 – Miles Cooke,
Mariner, who
was involved in Trans – Atlantic trade with his ship The Maryland Merchant
died.
October & November
1676 - Both Robert
Hutchinson and his brother, Ralph Hutchinson, are involved in various court cases
as either plaintiff, defendant, or Juror. They were also taxed for individual
ownership of lands. [Record of the Court of New Castle on Delaware, Vol. 1,
1676-1681.]
1 & 2 March 1676/77 - Thomas Hutchinson's first purchase
of land in Burlington County was made by Deeds of Lease and Release, dated the
1st and 2nd of March 1676/77. On those days, William Penn, Gawen Lawrie and
Nicholas Lucas sold to Thomas Hutchinson of Beverley, Thomas Peirson of
Bonwick, Joseph Hemsley of Great Kelke, George Hutchinson of Sheffield and
Mahlon Stacy of Handsworth, all of the County of Yorke and Kingdom of England,
seven full undivided shares or parts of ninety-one hundredth parts of the
Province of West New Jersey, [Ibid, Part 1, Folio 131] and on the same day sold
them three additional shares, [Folio 138].
These ten shares or parts
made up what was known as the First or Yorkshire Tenth, extending from the
Delaware River to the Province line on the East and took in all the territory
between the Assanpink and Pennsauken Creeks. These ten shares were bought for
the account of the purchasers themselves. They also made purchases for several
others.
18 February 1677 (new
style) - Robert
Hutchinson is identified as the bearer of a note for payment of a debt, carried
from a Jestoe Anderson to a Mr. Blackwell. The document is dated 18 February
1677 (new style). On the back of that sheet was an account of items bought by
Ralph Hutchinson from a Mr. Moll. [NY Hist. Manuscripts - Delaware Documents,
part of New York Colonial Documents, 1664-1682]
10 May 1677 - Thomas Hutchinson, Thomas Peirson,
Joseph Helmsley, George Hutcheson and Mahlon Stacy to Thomas Wright,
one-quarter of their ten acres [Part 1, Folio 5]; one sixth part of a share to
Joseph Wood on May 25th 1677, [Gloucester Deeds, No 1, Folio 45]; and one-sixth
part to Joseph Pope on the same day, [Liber B, Part 1, Folio 105]. George
Nicholson purchased one-twenty fourth part of a share on July 4, 1677 [Ibid],
Edward Searson bought one-quarter of a share on July 5th [Ibid, Foli 40],
George Porter bought a sixth on the 10th [Folio 15], and Joshua Wright a like
amount on the 16th, [Folio 13]. Nicholas Knight of Kent, England purchased a
quarter and a twenty-fourth share before August 29th , 1677, for a receipt in
full for the money expended was given to him on that date [Folio 82], and John
Estell of Yorkshire bought a twenty-fourth on December 28th, [Folio 128]. [West
Jersey Records, Liber B, Part 1.]
4 July 1677 – Memorial of Deed. Thomas
Hutchinson of Beverley, Thomas Pearson of Bonwick, Joseph Helmsley of Great
Kelke, George Hutcheson of Sheffield and Mahlon Stacy of Hansworth Parish, all
in the County of Yorke, to George Nicholson of Burton Stather, County of
Lincolne, yeoman, for 1/24 of a share in the First Tenth of West Jersey. [West
Jersey Records, Liber B, Part 1.]
16 July 1677 – Memorial of
Deed – Thomas Hutchinson, Thomas Peirson, Joseh Helmsley, George Hutcheson and
Mahlon Stacy to Joshua Wright, for 1//6 of a share. [West Jersey Records, Liber
B, Part 1.]
20 July 1677 - In a Special Court in New
Castle, Delaware, Robert Hutchinson gave testimony in a case under oath and
preparatory to that testimony he swore that he was 27 years of age. [Record
of the New Castle Court, Volume 1, 1676-1681.]
10 August 1677 – Deed – Thomas Hutchinson of
Beverley, yeoman, Thomas Pearson of Bonwick, yeoman, Joseph Helmsley of Kelke,
yeoman, George Hutcheson of Sheffield, distiller, and Mahlon Stacy of
Dorehouse, tanner, all of the County of York, to George Porter of Kelke, silk
weaver, for 1/6 share of West Jersey, one share being 1/100 of one half of the
whole Province, as bought from Wm. Penn et al, March 1-2 last past. [West
Jersey Records, Liber B, Part 1.]
29 August 1677 – Certificate of Thomas Hutcheson,
Thomas Peirson, Joseph Helmsley, George Hutcheson and Mahlon Stacy, that
Nicholas Knight of Godmersham, Kent, has paid in full share of the charges in
West Jersey. [West Jersey Records, Liber B, Part 1.]
12 March 1677/78 - Court held in Upland (Chester,
Pennsylvania) - Robert Hutchinson assigned to Israel Helm, his man servant,
William Broomfield, for the term of four years, for 1,200 gilders.
25 July 1678 - Robert Hutchinson, of New Castle,
Delaware, bought 540 acres of land on the South side of Cohansey River in Salem
County from Benjamin Nettleship, heir of Vicessimus Nettleship. [See entry
below dated 2nd & 3rd November 1680.]
30 August 1678 - Thomas Hutchinson is still in
Beverley, Yorkshire, England when he agreed to purchase three tenths of a share
from John Robinson of Beverley and Thomas Lambert of Handsworth, if they would
buy two full shares on the next day from Hutchinson and his associates, [Part
1, Folio 354 and Part 2, Folio 683, 684].
December 1678 – George Porter, late of Burlington
to John Yeo of the Whorekill County in America, for 1/6 of a share of West
Jersey being 1/100 of an undivided half lot, bought of Thomas Hutchinson,
Thomas Pearson, Joseph Helmsley, George Hutchinson and Mahlon Stacy of
Yorkshire, July 10, 1677, who purchased said 1/100 from Wm. Penn, Gawen Lawrie,
Nicholas Lucas and Edward Billinge March 7, 1676/7. [West Jersey Records, Liber
B, Part 1.]
18 February 1678/79 - Ralph Hutchinson witnessed a note
acknowledging satisfaction of a debt. [NY Hist. Manuscripts - Delaware Documents,
part of New York Colonial Documents, 1664-1682]
April 1679 - Town of New Castle, Delaware -
Robert Hutchinson was confronted with the charges of having broken open another
person=s chest [Adam Wallis], which was in
his home, and stole various items from it. He was questioned about this but
denied it. Later, he was indicted and brought trial on the charges and after
many testified in the matter, Robert admitted the theft and the Court held him
accountable and he was held a prisoner in their fort without bail or manprize.
The Court then wrote to the Governor at New York on the matter on 23 April 1679
asking for guidance.
Robert Hutchinson, being a
Constable, was dismissed from that position on April 19th, 1679.
23 April 1679 - AAdam Wallis requesting for the Restitution of his goods and that
hee may bee Excused of ye prosecution seeing Robberd hutchinson has Confest the
fact, and hee being a handy Craft man, and upon necessity homeward bound for
seauorne River in Maryland; Wee doe Referr the sd. Restitution of ye goods unto
his honor ye Governor and upon Consideracon that ye sd. Robb: hutchinson has
made a generll Confession of his Robbery this third tyme of his Examination,
wee haue permitted the sd. Adam Wallis to goe about his busiesse, and Excused
him of ye prosecution whereunto hee was bound ye 19th instant.
Signed - John Moll, Pieter Alrichs, J: D=Haes,
Will: Sempill.@
AUpon the Peticon of William Sempill
in ye behalfe of Adam Wallis, desiering that the goods taken by Robberd
hutchinson out of sd. Adam Wallis his Chest & alreaddy found & in the
sherrifes Custodie migt bee restored as alsoe that Rob: hutchinson might bee
ordered to make good the remainder of ye ad. Goods taken out of ye Chest and
not as yett found wth. All Costs and Charges: The Cort. Order that ye goods bee
redelivered to Adam Wallis, and that Robberd hutchinson make good what is yet
missing of them wth. All Costs and Charges.@ [Records of the Court of New Castle on Delaware, Vol 1,
1676-1681.]
The Governor=s guidance came in a letter from New
York, dated 19 May 1679. In the letter is stated: A...whether itt will reach to the
Criminall part so farr as to burne him in ye hand chich is Comonly Inflicted on
a person that deserves death yet haueing the benefit of the Clergy saues his Life
by reading though hee forfeits all his goods and Chattles and Liberty for a
yeare,...I suppose hee may at least deserve Corporall punnishment, or a
Considerable fyne and such further Penalty of Banishment or the like, the which
his Excellency doth wholly leaue to your Court to adjudge and determine...@
The Court sentenced ARobberd hutchinson being heretofore
Comitted a prizoner for theft ...for Example to others bee brought to the forte
gate within this Towne of New Castle, and there publicqly whipt therty &
nine stroakes or Lashes, that hee pay and make good unto Adam Wallis the
Remainder of ye goods...and doe further for Ever Banish ye sad Robberd
Hutchinson out of this River of delowar & partes adjacent hee to depart
within Three dayes now next Ensuiing with Leaue to Chuse and appoint any person
as his attorney to Receive & pay his Debts: God Saue the King.
This Abovesaid sentence was
put in Execution & Robberd hutchinson publicqly whipt ye same day in New
Castle etc.@ [Records of the Court of New Castle
on Delaware, Vol. 1, 1676-1681; NY Hist. Manuscripts - Delaware Documents, part
of New York Colonial Documents, 1664-1682]
19 May 1679 - Re: A letter from Secretary
Matthais Nicholls to the Magistrates at Newcastle, explaining to them the
Duke's Law and ordering a stop of proceeding against Domine Laurentius Carolus.
It begins: "The Governor having received yours of the 23rd of Aprill past
touching Robert Hutchinson's Thievery..." [General Entries, 1678-1680:
E32:43-45 NY]
About this same time, Ralph Hutchinson
entered a case in the Delaware Court in reference to the estate of Walter
Wharton, deceased, was indebted to him for meat, drink and lodging. Ralph
Hutchinson also appeared as a witness in another case regarding his purchase of
A a Certayne House and Lott of ground
wth. In this Towne of New Castle Lying betweene the house & Lotts of Jan
hendricks and Isacq Tayne, ...@
[Records of the Court of New Castle on Delaware, Vol 1, 1676-1681.]
Being Robert Hutchinson was
a prisoner, several cases against him by Samuel Wheeler and Francis Steevens
were suspended by the Delaware Court.
23 & 24 May 1679 - Thomas Hutchinson is still in
Beverley, when he sold one quarter of the above.
July 1679 - Delaware Court was held at New
Castle where it received further Petitions against Robert Hutchinson for debts
owed by John Shackerly, Ephraim Herman, John Moll, William Hamilton, Johannes
Dehaes, Hendrik Cand= Burgh,
Engelbert Lott; all of which were for debts owed for food and/or tobacco.
[Records of the Court of New Castle on Delaware, Vol 1, 1676-1681.]
26 July - 12 Aug 1679 - Shippers by the ship Maryland
Merchant of York, Mr. Robert Raine [Master], bound from Hull to
Virginia: Thomas Hutchinson, Thomas Stacy [Stark] [Stacey/Strachey],
Joseph Wright, Richard Metcalfe, Edward Nightingale. (PRO:E190/323/1. [The
Complete Book of Emigrants; Peter Wilson Coldham]
24 September 1679 - Thomas Peirson and Joseph Hemsley
audite the "Account of Tho. Hutchinson with some of the Proprietors of the
Yorkshire Tenth and in laying out 'our Town now called Burlington' in
1677", [Part 2, Folio 687]. One of those accounts with Edwin Perrin of
Bristol, Somersetshire, was not finally settled until September 17, 1700, when
Richard Johns of Maryland, attorney for Perrin and Co gave a formal discharge
to John Hutchinson, son and heir of Thomas Hutchinson, from all claims upon his
father.
November 1679 - Ralph Hutchinson is a courier,
carrying letters from Eph. Hermann to Matthias Nicolls (secretary to the New
York governor, Edmund Andros) in New York. [NY Hist. Manuscripts - Delaware
Documents, part of New York Colonial Documents, 1664-1682]
December 1679 - Abram Man and Edmund Cantwell file
unspecified charges against Robert Hutchinson. Ralph Hutchinson files charges
against John Yeo but both parties are absent and the Court orders a Anonsuit.@ [Records of the Court of New Castle
on Delaware, Vol 1, 1676-1681.]
During this same Court,
Ralph Hutchinson made a petition desiring restitution of his goods and effects
that were taken from him upon the execution of debts owed by his ABrother Robberd hutchinson...@ The court basically stated that
since Ralph Hutchinson said nothing about this since April 1679, and several
people obtained the goods from him for payment of Robert=s debts in July, and still nothing
was said, that now at this late time, the Court decided that it was out of
their power Asence others haue Lawfully Layed
their Executions on itt as Robberds Estate and therefore if ye Peticonr is
wronged by his Brother itt is altogether his owne fault, hee haueing neglected
and Long overslipped his Tyme 7 therefore hee must seeke his Remedy by Course
of Lawe agst. His sd. Brother or his Estate. [Records of the Court of New
Castle on Delaware, Vol 1, 1676-1681.]
Ralph Hutchinson was
acknowledged for carrying return correspondence back from Matthias Nicolls in
New York to John Moll in Delaware. [NY Hist. Manuscripts - Delaware Documents,
part of New York Colonial Documents, 1664-1682]
1679-1680 - Ralph Hutchinson, who is identified
as Robert's brother, tried to intercede on Robert's behalf. [NY Hist.
Manuscripts - Delaware Documents, part of New York Colonial Documents,
1664-1682]
February 1679/80 - Will of Ralph Hutchinson,
Newcastle, Delaware
Leaves to wife of Captain Nicolls
a bill due him from Daniel Sullivan of Fairfield. Leaves small legacies to
Peter Alrich, Wessell Alrich, John Ogle's two sons, James Willis, Thomas
Wolaston, John Darby, the daughters of Mr. Semphill. Leaves to his brother
Robert Hutchinson clothes and land at poplar neck.. Leaves to his uncle, John
Bedford/Redford 4,000 pounds of tobacco and my plantation at Christain creek
and if not, sold for his sisters use and if A...my said brother Robbart doth Continue in ye disabled
Condition wee understand hee is in I: alsoe will and bequeath the the patents
thats assigned over to mee from Benjamin Nettelship perchazed ougt to Mayor
Fenwikes Collony but In case of his Mortality I: bequeath itt to my brother
& sister in ould England or their use, and ye rest of the overplus of my
Estate when my debts bee sattisfied, to ye discretion of my father and
mother:...@ He makes Peter Alrichs, James
Williams, and Thomas Wolaston, executors. Witnesses - Wm. Still, Tyman Slider,
Ph. Peacock. [Abstract of Wills (NY) Liber 1-2, Page 114; Records of the Court
of New Castle on Delaware, Vol 1, 1676-1681, Page 397.]
3rd & 4th
February 1679/1680 -
Court held in Town of New Castle
Edmund Cantwell and Abram
Man win their court cases against Ralph Hutchinson and the Court orders Ralph
Hutchinson to make payment to them for the debts. At the same time, the Court
ordered Cantwell, as Administrator of the Estate of Walter Wharton, to Ralph
Hutchinson, 1220 gilders for funeral charges according to a former Order of the
Court dated 4th of June 1769.
At the same Court, Thomas
Spry brought action against Robert Hutchinson, which was continued, and John
Darby also brought action against Robert, which was withdrawn by Darby.[
Records of the Court of New Castle on Delaware, Vol 1, 1676-1681.]
13 February 1679/1680 - The case of Thomas Spry against
Robert Hutchinson was again called and it was the defts. 3rd
default.
2nd & 3rd
March 1679/1680 -
Upon motion of John Darby, the Court ordered that Darby shall lawfully pay Aupon ye Execution of Robberd
hutchinson of ye Tobb: that was formerly Ralph hutchinsons, that hee ye sd.
Darby shall haue discharges from the Executors of Ralph=s Estate or Receipts Indorsed on ye
bake of ye bill from sd. Darby to Ralph hutchinson.@
Appeared in Court APeter Alrichs & Thomas Woollaston
who produced the Laest will and Testament of Ralph hutchinson deceased
desiering that according to ye Tennor of ye sd. Will there might bee granted
orders of administration unto them together wth James Walliam etc: whereupon the sd. Will be publicqly
Read in Cort Capt. Edmund Cantwell Pillip Pocock and Will: Still the witnesses
to ye same were sworne in Cort whoe declared that the same will produced in
Cort was Ralph hutchinson Laest will and Testament: The Cort thereupon did
grant unto them ye sd. Peter Alrichs, James Walliam and Thomas Woollaston an
order to administr accordingly the ye sd. Will be Recorded and yt. Ye sd.
Administrators Cause an Inventory and appraizemt to bee made of ye Estate of ye
sd. Ralph hutchinson deceased; and that they make Returne thereof and give in
security according to Lawe att ye next Courtday.
Hendrik Vanden Burgh &
John Kan were by ye Cort appointed to bee ye appraizers to appraise ye Estate
of Ralph hutchinson of this Towne of New Castle deceased: followeth the
Laest will & Testament of Ralph hutchinson deceased.
In the name of God Amen I:
Ralph hutchinson being weake of boddy but blessed be God in perfect sence and
memory doe make Constitute and appoint this to be my Laest Will &
Testament, Revokeing all other wil or wills whatsomever and this only brr my
Laest Will & Testament. Inth ename of ye father and of ye son and of ye
holy gost Amen, Committing my soule into ye hands of Almighty God and my boddy
to the Earth and all my worldly good bee disposed in manner and forme
following: Item I: will and bequeath unto Captn Nicolls his wyfe one bill due
from Daniel Sileuant of fairfield. ItemI: will and bequesth unto Mr. Peter
Alrichs my Plush Saddle and I give unto Wessel Alrichs the mare att john
Colses. Item I give and bequesth the twoo Colts of that mare, to John Ogles
Twoo sons, and fower pounds due from Locker and John arskin. Item I: will and
bequeath unto James Walliams five pounds in ye best pay of ye River due to mee.
Item I: wil & bequeath unto Thomas Woollaston fyve pounds in ye best pay of
ye River due to me. Item, I: give ye Cross Cut Sawe and axes and things all
John Garretsens to ye said Woollaston, Item, I: give unto his wyfe some napkins
and Table Linnen thats in the Chest, Item I: give unto Mary Woollaston The
sowes att john Smiths, Item I: give unto John Darby the mare Running upon ye
Island Item, I give unto ye daughter of Mr Sempil the monnys due from John
Anderson of Christina to buy a Coate, Item I: give unto Ann Woollaston the
monnys due to mee from Swart Jacob to buy hur Cloathes, Item I: give 7 bequeath
unto my Brother Robert hutchinson my gray suite and my sarge suite and ye Land
at Poppler neck, or if he bee not capable of using itt to bee put in ye hands
of some one for ye maintaynance of him and twoo shirts, Item I: give unto amond
bedford six oyled skins that are in my Chest, and also I: give and bequeath
unto my unkle John bedford fower thousnad pounds of Tobbacco; and my Plantation
att Christeen Creeke if not sould to my sisters use if the debts bee sattisfyed
wth ye other Consernes, and if that my said brother Robbart doth Continue in ye
disabled Condition wee understand hee is in I: alsoe will and bequeath the
pattents thats assigned ouer to mee from Benjamin Nettelship perchazed ougt to
mayor fenwickes Collony but In case of his mortality I: bequeath itt to my
brother & sister in ould England or their use, and ye Rest of theoverplus
of my Estate when my debts bee sattisfyed, to ye discretion of my father &
mother I: will & bequeath itt and all feunerall Charges sattisfied: also I
further appoint Peter Alrichs and James Walliam and Thomas Woollaston of New
Castle in ye province of New Yorke to be my administrators & Executors upon
y Estate according to usuall Custome, Given under my hand & seale this 16th
day of February A.D. 1679/80. Signed: Ralph Hutchinson; Witnesses: Will: Still,
Tymen Stiddem, Ph: Pocock , Ed: Cantwell.
At the next Court day, John
Darby withdrew his Court action against Robert Hutchinson.
24 September 1679 – Audit by Tho: Pearson and Joseph
Helmsley of the account of Tho: Hutchinson with some of the Proprietors of the
Yorkshire Tenth and in laying out "our Town now called Burlington,"
in 1677. [West Jersey Records, Liber B, Part 2.]
6 April 1680 - Court held
at the Town of New Castle - AHenry
Boaman@ petitioned the Court for the debt
against the Ralph Hutchinson Estate involving a mare that wasn=t paid for and the Court and Estate
decided that ABoaman@ was to go find the mare and take it back.
[Records of the Court of New Castle on Delaware, Vol 1, 1676-1681.]
John Darby came back to
Court with Aan attachmt. In ye Plts. Owne hands@ against Robert Hutchinson. Case was
continued as the Defendant was absent. [Records of the Court of New Castle on
Delaware, Vol 1, 1676-1681.]
4 May 1680 - The Court called the John Darby
case against Robert Hutchinson, who again failed to appear. [Records of the
Court of New Castle on Delaware, Vol 1, 1676-1681.]
15 Jun 1680 - John Edmondson,
Merchant to Thomas Hutchinson, Tanner - 200 acres called "North
Yorke" and another tract adjoining (no names) - in the freshes of
Tredhaven Creek adjoining to "Cook's Manor", the land of John Stanley
and of John Edmondson. Wit: Thomas Brown, Thomas Dawson. [Talbot Co., Maryland
Land Records, Vol 3, page 357]
15 June 1680 - Court in
the Towne of New Castle
- The John Darby case against Robert Hutchinson was heard and the Court decided
that the Defendant owed 277 gilders but the Plaintiff was to accept in payment Aof ye debt the plt. Is to allowe for
425 ld of Tobb: in Maryland to bee Received there att 8 styvers pr. Lb as hee
has Charged the deft. in ye acct.@
[Records of the Court of New Castle on Delaware, Vol 1, 1676-1681.]
In the same Court, Gab:
Minvielle by his Attorn: Capt. Edm: Cantwell filed an Action of a debt against
the Estate of Ralph Hutchinson. However, being Ayett no Lettr of administratr granted, this Case is Referred.
[Records of the Court of New Castle on Delaware, Vol 1, 1676-1681.]
In the same Court, Robert
Hutchinson brought Action against Will: Pattisson. However, being that Robert
Hutchinson was unable to attend, the case was AReffered till next Court day.@ [Records of the Court of New Castle on Delaware, Vol 1,
1676-1681.]
26th of the
3rd Month 1680, Oustwick, England – A Letter from Dorothy Hutchinson to her
Husband – addressed
as “ For Thomas Hutchinson, Jun.
Maryland. To be left at John Gray’s, Maryland, who is desired to take
care of this letter, and deliver it with care to T.H.”
“Thy three letters by
Robert Rain are safely come to my hand; and I am glad to hear of thy arrival in
Maryland, although it was through great dangers and perils of they life, as
thou givest me an account; and I can do no less than take it as God’s great
mercy, who preserved thee from perishing in the terrors of the merciless sea;
but gave thee thy life for a prey. Now
what remains unto thee, or what doth God require at thy hand, but to do justly
unto all, and to love mercy, and to walk in true humility before thy Creator?
who beholds the secrets of all hearts, and their ways and goings are tried in
the balances of his justice, whether their actions be right and just before
Him, yea or nay. And, if not right,
from his judgments whither shall any fly? or from his all-seeing eye, what
mountain is there that can hide? or what distant land that is able to secure
from the reach of his mighty arm? Nay,
there is no place that shall be found able to hold from the justice of his
Majesty. [Robert Raine, above, who delivered three letters to Dorothy
above, was Master, of the ship Maryland Merchant, from 1677-1682.
And, between 26 July 1679-12 August 1679-Shippers by the ship Maryland
Merchant, of York, England, Mr. Robert Raine, Master, was bound from Hull
for Virginia: Thomas Hutchinson, and others was on board. [The Complete Book of
Emigants; Peter Wilson Coldham. ]]
But
as there is a sense of an out-running from his holy counsel, and a disposition
then, in true humility of mind, to fall into his mercy, and bow before the
Lord, and repent from the heart, of that which is the cause of judgment, [He
will be intreated;] for it is mixed with mercy unto all that love to be tried
and searched by its workings, and patiently to be under and wait upon the Lord
in the way thereof, until all be judged out, that is contrary to the heavenly
will of God. And, seeing it hath
pleased the Lord so wonderfully to preserve they life, through so great
dangers, now I humbly beseech thee; fail not to answer so great a mercy as God
hath given thee; but while thou hast time, now with all diligence bow to his
blessed Truth, which will lead to do justly unto all, as thou wouldst be done
by; and account nothing too low to stoop down unto for the Truth’s sake, lest
the unalternable decree of God’s displeasure be sealed against thee. And then what would it avail thee if thou
did enjoy thousands of the world’s fading treasure, which I count but as dross
an dung in comparison of favor with God, and an in heritance with righteous in
his everlasting, heavenly kingdom; which we are, in the first place, to seek
and pursue with all our might. Then I
know we should live so in this world, as we should not in the least be afraid
to die; because our account then would be given already; yea and a daily
account offered unto the Lord, of our thoughts, words, actions; and then sure I
am, all things else would be added unto us that are needful for our souls and
bodies: and to pursue after this, is my greatest care in the midst of my
sorrows, which are many in this world; but the Lord God of Heaven, whom I fear,
will deliver me out of them all in his own time.
Oh!
dear husband! think it not strange that I write on this wise to thee; but I
humbly beg of thee to bear with my plainness; for in bowels of tender love I do
salute thee with these lines, in which my counsel is imparted to thee; which is
sound and standing truth; and if thou join therewith in an upright heart, will
give health to thy soul, and cure thee of all maladies, and give thee a sound
understanding in all thy undertakings.
Now I pray thee, in humility weigh and seriously consider, in coolness
of mind, what I write unto thee, and receive it in love, that thou mayst enjoy
substance; and let all the airy shadows go which have brought thee into great
loss, both inwardly and outwardly; for which I labour under sorrow and travail
for an amendment.
Now
as to writing for me and my children to come to thee, with two maids, and what
men servants I can get, and to bring all the best household goods, to wit,
linen, pewter, brass, beds, chest of drawers, chairs, & c. with brandy,
ale, and wine, with fruit and cheese, which this writes for, is indeed
altogether out of my capacity to answer.
The reasons why, I shall give thee to understand as followeth. First, thou knowest what a sorrowful
condition thou left us in when thou turned thou back on us, and left myself
with three small children, and nothing there was for us to live upon that might
properly be called our own; for the creditors came so hot upon my brother, when
they saw that thou wast gone indeed, that he could not go into Hull or Beverly
without fear of arresting.
[After detailing some particular circumstances
which occurred, she proceeds thus.]
So
we had nothing to live upon, but were forced to break up house, and get up
those goods for which thou writes to raise money for the creditors; yea, the
very bed and bedstead upon which my poor children did lie, was sold, and we
forced to go into a cold chamber, over the back kitchen, in a very cold season,
both in frost and snow; where I and my three children did lie upon a little
narrow bed, whereon we could hardly turn us; and the poor maid lay at my bed’s
foot upon the chamber floor; and thus did we lie for several weeks; and it was
more sweet to me than if we had lain in the best room, well furnished, and
others to have wanted their own.
Now
I humbly desire thee, consider what thou hast brought upon thyself, with me the
wife of thy youth, and upon thy posterity, and to the grief of many upright
hearts; and, worst of all, that thou hast caused the blessed Truth to be evil
spoken of, and the Name of God to be blasphemed in the mouth of those that have
waited for our halting. Oh! the cries of the widow and fatherless children,
with others, that are sent after thee, with many bitter curses from them, that
thou shouldest take their estate, and begone into a strange land out of thy
native country, where thou hast been fed and well nourished; and told them that
thou would come again and live in England, and now intendest no such thing. Oh! dear husband! thou hast had storms by
sea; but many a bitter blast have I borne by land for thy sake, which is not
yet ended, nor will be until thou return that which is right and just to every
one to whom thou owest. Yea, I can say,
and that of a truth, I had rather have chosen death than to have lived to see
and hear what I have done of thee, if it had been the good pleasure of my
heavenly Father.
Oh!
consider, I beg thee, what was the first cause of all this, or the first step
that led the way into this calamity and sorrow; was it not seeking after great
things, to be high and rule others, and to live at ease in the world! Oh! this hope, which was vain and airy, was
the cause, if a right search be made, that led out of God’s counsel, and blinded
the discerning eye; so that sometimes there was not a sense of God, nor of his
will, which would have led out of those distractions of mind.
Dear husband! thou knowest how I bowed down with grief and
unspeakable sorrow, to behold thy destructive proceedings; and spared not to
advise thee with that counsel, in which thou had been happy if thou wouldest
have taken it in time, and not sent thy estate beyond the sea, which thou
knowest was against my mind, as much as it could be; and where I could not join
thee I passively suffered with patience, it not being my place to strive with
thee, as thou art my husband. And now I
have offered up my all, save my clothes which I should wear; and the best of
them also I have offered to be sold; and now the answer of peace, and a good
conscience, is my only portion from the Lord; which no man ever gave, neither
shall any be able to take it from me; which I would not change for all this
fading world, nor the pleasures therein.
O that thou wert of the same mind with me! then could I beg my bread
with thee, and count no sea perilous, no storms dangerous, to come to thee, if
once thou wouldst discharge the conscience before God and all men.
Now I humbly entreat thee,
if I be the only object of thy delight, as thou art pleased to write, then
grieve me no longer, nor let me go down to the grave with sorrow; neither bring
gray hairs upon my head with grief; for how often have my cheeks been baptized
with tears, and the ground upon which my knees have been bowed before the Lord
even watered with drops of sorrow, when no eye hath seen, nor ear heard, but
the Lord alone, who is able to help me, and to restore thee again!
Now
I pray thee, let my request find acceptance with thee, and now hearken unto my
voice, as Abraham did unto Sarah his wife; although she called him Lord, yet
did Abraham hearken unto all that she said, and answered her request, and the
Lord was well pleased therewith. And so
will it be unto thee, if thou wilt bear and answer my request, which is to
humble thy self before the Lord, and repent from thy very heart of what has
been amiss in thy proceedings; and let what hath been passed suffice, and now
return unto thy Creator with all thy heart, whilst the day of thy visitation
waits upon thee. Which of us can say, this day or the morrow is ours? Wherefore time is precious! O that we may not let it slip, but prize it
greatly! And further I request thee, to
come over into thy native land, and bring back that estate which thou hast in
thy hand. Thou writes that hides and
furs are plentiful; bring as many as thou canst, and settle to thy tanning
trade, in which God did bless thee: and deal to every man a part of whom thou
owest, until thou hast no more: so will God bless thee; they creditors will be
satisfied; thy good name raised; and thou brought into favour with God, and
good people; and my heart will be comforted, who can receive thee with gladness
in the Truth, and let all pass whatsoever hath been amiss. And if we have less
that is our own, it will be more gladness unto me, than if we enjoyed thousands
of others’ estates in our hands; and thou wilt find, that there is not a lower
way of living that thou canst propound, than I shall be willing to condescend
to. And fear not, God will give a
blessing unto thy endeavours, and we shall never want that which is needful, if
thou wilt but answer the Truth, and show thyself, like a man, in thy own
country again; and then I shall pass for thy creditors, they will not arrest
thee, but give thee time to pay as thou canst.
As
things stand at the present, I cannot come to thee, having nothing to help
myself or children with, of all that was thine; neither did I save myself one
five shillings, to help myself, of that money for which thy goods were sold,
nor any other debt, which was taken in; and none hath any thing of thine in
their hands for my use. But my brother
J.S. hath in charity taken us into his house, who are objects of pity to all
that behold our sorrow.
And
this I intreat thee to take notice of, if I had in my hands to pay my passage,
and that of the three children, and all accommodation that was needful for such
a voyage, I durst not enter into any ship, in order to come to thee, and leave
the care of poor widows and fatherless children with others, not to be
satisfied. If I did, the judgment of
God would pursue after me; and therefore I dare not grieve the Lord’s Spirit,
but rather suffer with those that suffer here, and work with my hands for my
bread, than come to thee if I might enjoy all the pleasures that Maryland could
afford, and leave my native country in an uproar. And this is the counsel of God to me, and not man; for my
promise, which thou required of me in not taking counsel of any friend or
relation, I do keep; but the blessed counsel of Life is free unto me, to which
I apply myself daily; and this is always near, to guide my steps in the path of
peace, which none can deprive me of, as I abide faithful to my Creator.
Oh!
dear husband! I once more humbly beg of thee to bear with my plainness, and
receive this my counsel, which is the chiefest good that I have to impart unto
thee; and thou wilt find it so, if thou join thereunto. So, I must leave thee to the Lord, with my
supplication unto God for thy restoration every way; even be it so, saith my
soul; and shall rest. Thy obedient wife
in the Truth, D.H.
Thy
three children are yet alive, and remember their love to thee: Thomas is
weakly, and is sick every night. I
asked him if he would come to thee, and his answer was, nay. Then I asked him what was the reason: and he
said, because thou did not pay thy debts, and if he went, he would always be in
sorrow and grief. Then I asked him how
he would be maintained; and his answer was, God that made him would provide for
him; and he wept bitterly all the time. And many times I have asked him if we
should go; and always did he answer me, nay, he would not go to thee, because
he could not live in peace and quietness, as long as there were debts. And he weeps bitterly, when this comes into
his mind.
I
have not added; but it comes of his own accord: and glad I am to find such a
sense of truth and faith therein; he being but eight years old. This child is a comfort to me in my sorrows. My brother J. S. will give thee a just
account of what is paid, and what is unpaid, and what things are disposed of;
his love is to thee, and my sister Hannah, with mine once more; and glad shall
I be to hear of thy coming for England.
So I must leave all to Him that is alone able to persuade and
restore. D.H.”
[This letter was found in
a book published in England in 1824 by The Society of Friends. The book was entitled Collectitia: or,
Pieces, Religious, Moral & miscellaneous, adapted to THE SOCIETY OF
FRIENDS. In it, was a chapter entitled Dorothy
Hutchinson. In the introduction of
this chapter, it stated that the Friends had been able to “ascertain that her
maiden name was Dorothy Storr; and that her Father was Marmaduke Storr, of
Oustwick in Holderness, Yorkshire…” It
continues on with several pages detailing the various persecutions and
imprisonments against her father, his brother, Joseph Storr, and other members
of the Friends. The introduction also
stated that “On the 29th day of 3rd Month, 1668, it is
pretty clear that he [Marmaduke Storr] was present at the marriage of his
daughter Dorothy, to Thomas Hutchinson, of Beverley. By this marriage was the following issue: Ebenezer born 10th of 6th
Mo. 1670, Thomas born 10th of 2nd Mo. 1672, John 29th
of 8th Mo. 1674.”]
19/8/1680 - Tho:
Hutchinson is removed from the house he had of Wm. Stevens Junr at Island Creek
and also Wm. Stevens having lett out his house and plantation to another, this
meeting hath ordered that the Quarterly Meeting be kept att Tho: Hutchinsons
where he now liveth.
[Third Haven Monthly Meeting, Talbot County, Maryland; Quaker Minutes of
the Eastern Shore of Maryland, 1676-1779, F. Edward Wright, 2003]
21 August 1680 - Court in
the Towne of New Castle
- Robert Hutchinson=s case
against William Pattishon was heard and Robert Hutchinson wanted 40 shillings,
which he says the Defendant agreed to pay Aye Plt.
For ye widdow of Joseph Garner deceased, who owes so much to the Plaintiff. The
Defendant indicated that he owed to the said widow of Joseph Garner 200 lb of
Tobacco A but to this Plt. no money or
gilders.@ Therefore, the Court found no cause
and ordered Robert to pay the costs for a non-suit. [Records of the Court of
New Castle on Delaware, Vol 1, 1676-1681.]
2nd& 3rd
November 1680 - Court in the Towne of New Castle - Robert Hutchinson appealed a case
against him from Aye Court
of New Salem agst these defts@ being
Thomas Smith, James Pierce, William Jhonson & Will: Waygtman. Thomas Smith
appeared with the authority to speak on their behalf. Hutchinson was appealing
an action by the Salem Court in reference to a ACertaine pss. Of Land Lying in Cohansey Creeke and ye sd. Court
haueing on 11th of octobr 1680 past their award mutch to the
detriment of him...@ Robert
stated that on Athe 8th
day of June 1675, John Edmundson did grant unto Andrew Juriansen and John Dunn,
540 acres of land on the south side of Cohansey Creek ( or River) butted and
bounded, as by a Certificate by Walter Wharton then Surveigor by ye
appointement of John Edmundson & Will Tom attorn: for John fenwicke...and
sence Sophia Juriansen Relict of Andrew Juriansen deceased did Sell hur
Interest togeather wth Charles Rumsey Assignee of John Dunn, of in and to ye
premisses unto Vicessimus Nettelshipp on ye 20th of February then
next following, whoe had severall houses built thereon and a Considerable
quantity of Ground Cleared & planted wthin ye tyme Limited, and had also
full and quiet possession thereof during the tyme of his Lyfe: and dying his
brother Benjamin Nettelship as the nearest in bloud became Lawfully invested
unto ye sd. Estate, whoe sould the sd. Land Plantation and premisses unto yor
appellt for ye sume of 4,000 lb. of Tobbacco as by a deed thereof under the
hand and seale of the sd. Benjamin dated 25 of July 1678 may more att Large
apeare, and yor appellt haueing of Late ben in mutch trouble and for a tyme
bereft of his Right sences was thereby hindered to looke after his sd. Land, as
otherwayes hee would haue don, in wch tyme these defts. Haue seated themselves
on ye sd. Land & Plantation, denying yor appellt possession...@
The Court agreed with Robert
Hutchinson and found the case in his favor. However, Thomas Smith asked to
appeal the Court=s
verdict Ato ye next of Azzizes to be held in
New Yorke in the month of Octobr next, alledging for Reasons That his deeds
from Mayr fenwicke are att prsent in East Jersey and for that hee thinkes to
bee Lawfully possest...@ Smith
was granted that right as long as he posted ASufficient Security@ by the
first Tuesday in January next. [Records of the Court of New Castle on Delaware,
Vol 1, 1676-1681.]
4th & 5th
January 1680/1681 - Court at the Towne of New Castle - The case of Gabriell Minvielle
against the Estate of Ralph Hutchinson was continued for the 2nd
time. [Records of the Court of New Castle on Delaware, Vol 1, 1676-1681.]
18 Feb 1681 – Division of
“Dover” for Loggins and Farmer made by Thomas Anderson, Chiurgion and Thomas
Hutchinson, Farmer. Wit: Francis Neale,
and John Gardner. Wit: John Weymouth,
Lenard Gening, John Shipard, William Hill.
[Talbot Co., Maryland Land Records, Vol 4, page 102]
2nd March
1680/1681 - Court at the Towne of New Castle - The case of Gabriell Minvielle against the Estate of
Ralph Hutchinson was continued for the 3rd time was Continued. [Records of the
Court of New Castle on Delaware, Vol 1, 1676-1681.]
20 June 1681 – Sarah Eastgate,
wife of Caleb Eastgate, lately known by the name of Sarah Elingsworth, late
wife of William Elingsworth, to John Stanley – 400 acres called “Salisbury
Plaine” in Tuckahoe Creek – adjoining the land laid out for John Edmondson and
adjoining land laid out for Capt. Philemon Lloyd – patented to John Richardson
in 1673; sold to Edward Williams, 1673; sold to Robert Turner, 1673; and given
to the several children of William Elingsworth born of the body of the said
Sarah Elingsworth. Wits: Richard Bayly, Thomas Hutchinson. [Talbot Co.,
Maryland Land Records, Vol 4, page 43]
21 Jun 1681 - John Stanley,
Merchant, to Thomas Hutchinson, Tanner - 400 acres called "Salisbury
Plaine" nigh Tuckahoe Creek - adjoining land laid out for John Edmondson
and Capt. Philemon Lloyd - patented to John Richardson; sold to Edward Williams
and by William to Robert Turner in 1673 and given by him in his will to the children
of William (left blank) begat with his wife Sarah, now known as Sarah Eastgate
and sold to John Stanley. Wit: George Robins, John Hollins. [Talbot
Co., Maryland Land Records, Vol 4, page 126]Hutchinson, Tanner, 400 acres called "Salisbury
Plain nigh Tuckahoe Creek"; [Deed; Talbot County, Maryland]
14 - 20 October 1681 - Shippers by the ship Maryland
Merchant of Hull, Mr. Robert Paine [Master], bound from Hull for
Virginia: Edward Nightingale, Richard Metcalfe, George Greenfield.
(PRO:E190/324/5). [Complete Book of Emigrants; Peter Wilson Coldham].
28/8/1681 - Dorrothy
Hutchinson presented her certificate. [This would have been a Certificate of
removal from somewhere else to Third Haven - per Wright. [Third Haven Monthly Meeting, Talbot
County, Maryland; Quaker Minutes of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, 1676-1779,
F. Edward Wright, 2001,2003]
2 September 1681 - In the New Jersey Records, Thomas
Hutchinson "lately of Beverley, Old England" sold one acre of land in
Beverley, West Jersey, late called Burlington, in the Scarborough Lot, of the
Yorkshire Tenth to Daniel Leeds of West Jersey [Liber B, Part 1, Flio 112].
6 September 1681 - Court
held at the Towne of New Castle - At this Court, the individual cases of Gabriell Minvielle,
William Dervall and James Matheus against the Estate of Ralph Hutchinson were
suspended to be sent to New Yorke. Minvielle is owed A144 ponds, 12 shillings of Lawfull
new England monny@,
Dervall is owed A2,577
gildes, 10 styvers in tobb: & 832 gildes, 10 styvers in peltery,@ and Matheus in owed a debt by a bond
for 5,937n gilders & 16 styvers to bee paid att New Yorke.@ [Records of the Court of New Castle
on Delaware, Vol 1, 1676-1681.]
4 October 1681 - Court
held at the Towne of New Castle - At this Court, the cases of Gabriell Minvielle, William
Dervall and James Matheus against the Estate of Ralph Hutchinson were referred
to the next Court. [Records of the Court of New Castle on Delaware, Vol 1,
1676-1681.]
1st & 2nd
November 1681 - Court held at the Towne of New Castle - At this Court, the cases of
Gabriell Minvielle, William Dervall and James Matheus against the Estate of
Ralph Hutchinson were heard and Judgement given to each of the Plaintiffs.
[Records of the Court of New Castle on Delaware, Vol 1, 1676-1681.]
___ 1682 - John Edmondson, Merchant, to Thomas Hutchinson, Tanner - 200
acres where Hutchinson now dwelleth - bought under the seal of Samuel Cooke,
heir of Miles Cook and of Henry and William Coursey, Gents, Attorneys for the
widow of Miles Cook - adjoining Emanuel Jenkinson and Roger Farmer's lands -
called "Cookes Mannor." Wit: James Sedgwick, John Mullikin.
[Talbot Co., Maryland Land Records, Vol 4, page 119]
8 Jan 1682 – John Edmondson,
Merchant, to William Johnson, of London, England, Mariner – in consideration of
a marriage already solemnized between William Johnson and Sarah Edmondson,
daughter of John Edmondson and Sarah, his wife – 900 acres of land on the
northeast side of the main branch of Thirdhaven Creek called the freshes main
branch – purchased of Francis Armstrong, Sr., since deceased, and now in the tenure of Stephen Cady. Wit: Jos. Atkins, Jno. Salter. [Talbot Co.,
Maryland Land Records, Vol 4, page 181]
20 February 1682 - Order for Robert Wilson -
"...That Robert Wilson shall have liberty to take up and Possesse Two
Hundred and Fifty Acres of Land in the first Tenth, that is to say, one Hundred
Acres thereof upon the Accompt of Mathew Watson, which hee the said Robert hath
bought of the said Mathew; And the remaining one Hundred and Fifty Acres upon
the Accompt of George Ward, which said George Ward (as the Robert Wilson saith)
hath a right in a Two and Thirieth parte paid for to Thomas Hutcheson and is to
have a Deed thereof from the said Thomas Hutcheson; Which last mentioned one
Hundred and Fifty Acres, It is ordered by the Authority aforesaid that the said
Robert Wilson shall have liberty to take up and possesse; Provided nevertheless
That if the said Robert Wilson doe not or shall not within one yeare next ensueing
the date of this order, Procure and gett a Legall Deed from the said Thomas
Hutcheson of and for the said Two and Thirtieth parte of the propriety paid for
by the said George Ward ..." [Burlington County Court Book of West Jersey,
page 16.]
20 June 1682 - Letters of Administration on the
estate of Ralph Hutchinson, granted to Wm. Darvall and James Matthews,
principal creditors. [Letters of Administration (NY), Page Page 428.]
5 April 1683 – Memorial of Deed of Trust – Edward
Searson, late of the White Leay in Derbyshire, England, now of South River,
Arundell Co, Maryland, yeoman, to Samuel Jenings, Thomas Budd and Elias Farre,
the consideration having been paid by Thomas Ellis of Burlington, whitesmith,
deceased, on behalf of his daughter Elizabeth Ellis, for 1/64 of the First
Tenth, being part of the ½ of a share, bought by said Shearson of Thomas
Hutcheson, Thomas Pearson, Joseph Helmsley, George Hutcheson and Mahlon Stacy
on July 5, 1677. [West Jersey Records, Liber B, Part 1.]
17 Apr 1683 - Henry & William Coursey, Gents., and Samuel Cooke, Mariner,
son & heir of Miles Cook, to John Edmondson, Merchant -
"Mannor of Cook's Hope", 1,000 acres in Tredhaven Creek- willed
by Miles Cook to Dorothy, his wife, and conveyed by her to the Courseys.
Wit: Phil. Lloyd, Tho. Vuaghn, James Coursey; James Coursey, attorney for
Samuel Cook. [Talbot Co., Maryland Land
Records, Vol 4, page 194]
7 June 1683 – Robert Bryan and Lydia his wife to
John Price, Bricklayer, 100 acres, “Hatfield” and “Hatfield’s Addition” –
begins at an oak near Bryan’s dwelling house.
Wit: John Wiles, Thomas Hutchinson. [Talbot Co.,
Maryland Land Records, Vol 4, page 194]
7 August 1683 - Court
held in New Castle -
APeter Alrichs has and doth refuse to
Administ: upon ye Esate of Ralph hutchinson deceased ans Rob: hutchinson the
brother of ye deceased now requesting this Cort: to grant him ye administracon
upon his sd.: Brother Estate...The Cort are of opinion that hee ye sd. Robberd
hutchinson may bee admitted administr: ...@
[Records of the Court of New Castle on Delaware, Vol 2, 1681-1699.]
16 August 1683 – Power of Attorney. Robert Knight
of Godmersham, Kent, to Anthony Nelson of Croome Kil near Upland, Penna., to
receive from Tho. Hutcheson, Tho. Pearson, Joseph Helmsley, George Hutcheson
and Mahlon Stacy of New Beverley, West Jersey, yeoman, the ¼ and 1/24 of a
share of the Province bought of them by his father Nicholas Knight. [West
Jersey Records, Liber B, Part 1.]
21 Aug 1683 - John Edmondson, Merchant to John Stanley, Gent. - land near the
dwelling plantation of Stanley - 90 acres called "Cook's Hope" on the
northeast side of a branch of Tredhaven Creek- part of "Cook's Hope"
laid out for Michael Cooke and adjoining another laid out for John Nutt.
Wit: James Benson, Thomas Smithson. [Talbot Co., Maryland Land Records, Vol 4,
page 215]
14-15 September 1683 – Memorial of Deed – Joseph Helmsley
of Great Kelke, County of Yorke, England, yeoman, to William Ellis of Tunstall
in Holdernesse, County of Yorke, yeoman, for 1/6 of a share of West Jersey, the
money having been paid to Thomas Hutchinson, then of Beverley, same County,
tanner, September 17, 1677. [West Jersey Records, Liber B, Part 1.]
18 October 1683 - Court
held at New Castle -
William Darvall petition about the Estate of Ralph Hutchinson, deceased,
whereupon the Governor and Court ordered that Darvall may Aadministor: upon upon ye old Letter
of administracon from New Yorke upon ye sd. Estate of Ralph hutchinson...now
Renewed or Confirmed.
At the same Court, Capt.
Cantwell in behalfe of Gabriel Minviell an Peter Alrichs in behalf of James
Mathews desire in Court to be admitted Administrators of the Estate of Ralph
Hutchinson, deceased, jointly equal with William Darvall and It was so ordered
by the Court.
At the same Court, John
Williams, Hendrick Vander Burgh and John Darby were appointed by the Court as
appraisers for the Estate of Ralph Hutchinson, deceased, within the County of
New Castle. [Records of the Court of New Castle on Delaware, Vol 2, 1681-1699.]
4 December 1683 - Court
held at the Town of New Castle - ARobart
Hutchison@ was on the Jury.
[Records of the Court of New
Castle on Delaware, Vol 2, 1681-1699.]
5 December 1683 - Court
held at the Town of New Castle - ARobart
Hutchison for his brother@ was
listed in the Tax list for those residing in the AConstablery of the Town of New Castle@ for 200 acres of land, no town lots,
one Tithable, owing 4 shillings and 10 pence. [Records of the Court of New
Castle on Delaware, Vol 2, 1681-1699.]
21 January 1683/84 - Robert Hopper, of Scarsborough,
Yorkshire, master and mariner, sold to Thomas Hutchinson of Talbot County,
Maryland, "tanner", one quarter of the three tenths part of a share of West
Jersey, in the Yorkshire Tenth, of Scarborough property. [Deed; Talbot County,
Maryland; [West Jersey Records, Liber B, Part 1.]
15 April 1683/84 - Robart Hutchison testified in
Court. [Records of the Court of New Castle on Delaware, Vol 2, 1681-1699.]
16 June 1684 - Thomas
is again found as a witness to a deed; [Deed; Talbot County, Maryland]
17 June 1684 - Court held at New Castle -
A Mortgage formerly made to John Moll from Daniell Lindsay was by the sd. Moll
assigned ouer to Robart Hutchison. [Records of the Court of New Castle on Delaware,
Vol 2, 1681-1699.]
21 October 1684 - Court
held at New Castle -
Robart Hutchinson witnessed a document of Release of Gerardus Wessels, of
NewCastle and Territories of Pennsylvania, which was dated
9th day, 5th
month 1684. [Records
of the Court of New Castle on Delaware, Vol 2, 1681-1699.]
17 February 1684/85 -
Court held at New Castle
- Robart Hutchinson is on the list of Aye Land
& Titheables of ye County of necastle@ for 400
acres, 1 titheable, 7 shillings. E was also found on the List Aof ye Southside of Apoquenimy@ for 400 acres owing 4 shillings and
4 pence. [Records of the Court of New Castle on Delaware, Vol 2, 1681-1699.]
1685 - George Hutcheson and James Budd,
Commissioners, took account of 1685 deed of Mathew Allen, of Burlington Co (later
voided) [West Jersey Deed - B:87].
22 April 1685 - Robert Hutchinson originally
purchased two thousand acres of Job Nettleship, son and heir to Vicessimus
Nettleship, April 22, 1685, who bought the same from Fenwick in June 1675;
[History of the Counties of Salem and Cumberland New Jersey, page 503.]
17 December 1685 - Andrew Stilly acknowledged a deed
for 123 acres of land lying on Aye North
side of Christiana Creeke to Robart Hutchinson. [Records of the Court of New
Castle on Delaware, Vol 2, 1681-1699.]
1685/86 - Robert Hutchinson is on the List
of Land & Titheables in New Castle for 500 acres, 1 titheable, for 7
shillings and 6 pence. He is also found on the north side of Appoquenimy.
[Records of the Court of New Castle on Delaware, Vol 2, 1681-1699.]
1686 - Upon the Complaynt and Petition of
Thomas Hutchinson on the behalfe of Edward Bylling, Against Thomas Pearsons
Executor; [Burlington County Court Book of West Jersey; page 59.]
26th of 2nd month 1686 - A warrant to Richard Tindall to lay
out 2,000 acres of land for Thomas Hutchinson of John Fenwick's, to be laid out
in some convenient place not already taken up; [History of Fenwick's Colony,
page 500].
20 May 1686 – Memorial of Deed - Thomas
Hutchinson of Talbot County, Maryland to Wm. Biddle of Mouth Hope, West Jersey,
yeoman, for ¼ of one 3/90 share bought of Wm. Penn, etc. [West Jersey Records,
Liber B, Part 1.]
26 May 1686 - Among the earliest surveys for
lands in this county was one for Robert Hutchinson, who had a survey laid for
nine hundred and fifty acres May 27, 1686. The upper corner of it was a
"white-oak on the west side of the Cohansey River....The south line of
this survey ran westward up Island Branch Creek, as Cubby's Hollow stream was
then called [Bridgeton, NJ].... This tract was sold after his death by his two
daughters and their husbands to Elias Cotting, who sold it off in smaller
tracts; [History of the Counties of Gloucester, Salem and Cumberland New
Jersey, page 503.]
27/6/1686 - Tho:
Hutchinson informed this meeting he sold some land in West Jersey to James
Harrisson upon several conditions whereof none was performed; the matter will
be debated with the orphans of James Harrisson and their mother represented.
[Third Haven Monthly Meeting, Talbot County, Maryland; Quaker Minutes of the
Eastern Shore of Maryland, 1676-1779, F. Edward Wright, 2003]
13 September 1686 – Memorial of Deed. Thomas
Hutchinson of Talbot Co., Maryland, yeoman, to John Skene of Peachfield, West
Jersey, for ¼ of a share of West Jersey…in the property of Francis Beswick in
the First Tenth surveyed by Wm. Wmley as part of 1/12 share bought by said
Bewswick of Hutchinson.
19 October 1686 - Court
held at New Castle by ye AKings
authority & in ye name of William Penn Propriartary & Governor of ye Province
of Pensilvania & Territorys - Robert Hutchinson testified in a court case of William Dyre,
Esqr vs. Justus Anderson that Ahe heard
at one Edmunds house in Mary Land yt John Law was Dead at bush river as sd.
Edmunds wife had heard...@
[Records of the Court of New Castle on Delaware, Vol 2, 1681-1699.]
1687 - New Castle - Robert Hutchinson and Edward
Gibbs, jointly, were listed in land lots titheables. Robert Hutchinson,
individually, had 500 acres in New Castle plus the 400 acres on the north side
of Apoquenimy. [Records of the Court of New Castle on Delaware, Vol 2,
1681-1699.]
1687 - Gov. William Penn, debtor - George
Hutchinson and James Budd, 5 pounds ...; [History of Fenwick's Colony, page
503].
1687 - Thomas Wright Plaintiff. George
Hutcheson defendant. Action of the Case the Defendant declares hee had not his
declaration in tyme and Therefore craves a nonsuit. The Court order it.
10 Jan 1687 - Thomas Hutchinson and Dorothy his
wife, to Samuel
Abbot, Jr, amounting to 150 acres called "Hutchinson's Addition"
north side of Choptank River on a branch of St. Michael's Creek, adjoining
"Lord's Gift" laid out for Thomas Hutchinson and the land of William
Rich. Wit: Robert Jones, Samuel Abbot, Sr., Thomas Robins. [Talbot Co., Maryland Land Records, Vol 5, page 154]
10 Jan 1687 - Thomas Hutchinson and Dorothy
his wife to Anthony Cox, 100 acres,
called "Barnston" on Island Creek, Great Choptank
River-adjoining Samuel Abbot. Wit:
Robt. Jones, Sam’l Abbot, Sr., Thomas Robbins. [Talbot Co.,
Maryland Land Records, Vol 5, page 155]
25 Jan 1687 - Thomas Hutchinson to Robert Jones,
Blacksmith – part of “Hull” and part of Hull’s” Addition” – adjoining “Boon’s
Hope” now in tenure of Clement Sale and the land of Samuel Abbot called
“Buckroe.” Wit: Anthony Cox, Samuel Abbott, Jr., Thomas Robbins. [Talbot Co., Maryland Land Records, Vol 5, page 153]
10 Feb 1687 - Thomas Hutchinson and Dorothy his
wife to John Cliffe, planter - 100 acres at the head of Island Creek called
"Hutchinson's Plaines" and a part of "Barnestone" –
adjoining the land of Anthony Cox and Samuel Abbott’s “Abbington.” Wit: R. Jones, A. Cox, T. Robbins. [Talbot Co., Maryland Land Records, Vol 5, page 156]
10 Feb 1687 - Thomas Hutchinson and Dorothy his
wife to Thomas Browne – 100 acres on a branch of St. Michael’s Creek called
"Lord's Gift." Wit: R. Jones, A Cox, T, Robbins. [Talbot Co., Maryland Land Records, Vol 5, page 156]
20 February 1687/8 – Mortgage – John Skene of
Peachfield, West Jersey, to John Boarton of Hillsdon, West Jersey, yeoman, for
100 acres to be surveyed out of the tract bought of Thomas Hutchinson of
Talbot, County, Maryland, September 13, 1686. [West Jersey Records, Liber B,
Part 1; supra, Page 107.]
23 June 1687 – Deed – Thomas Hutchinson of
Maryland, tanner to Christopher Weatherill of Burlington, tailor, for 1/32 in
the First Tenth with Burlington town lots thereto belonging. [West Jersey
Records, Liber B, Part 1.]
6 July 1687 - Joseph Hutchinson was one of the
witnesses to a deed from George Hutcheson to Samuel Sykes for 200 acres Aneare the place called Hony Honickon.
[Onnianickon]
29 July 1687 – Return of Survey by Symon Charles
for Thomas Hutchinson reads, "Surveyed then for Thomas Hutchinson a tract
of land lying upon ye River Delaware above the ffalls, BEGINNING at black oak
marked by said river for corner..." Surveyed for 2,500 acres. [NJ,
Revell’s Book "A", page 105, of Surveys.]
16 Aug 1687 – Thomas Hutchinson of Threadhaven, Tanner, to Thomas Bruff,
Gent. – 400 acres “Salisbury Plain” – part of a warrant for 1,700 acres granted
to Timothy Goodridge of Talbot, 24 Nov 1670.
Goodridge assigned to john Richardson (reference to patent 10 Jul 1671);
Richardson to Edward Williams; Williams to Robert Turner and Turner assigns to
John Stanley and by Stanley to Hutchinson – adjoining John Edmondson and
Philemon Lloyd. Wit: Philemon Hemsley,
William Cathrupp, Richard Swettnam. [Talbot Co., Maryland Land Records, Vol 5,
page 104]
25 Aug 1687 - A Thomas Bruff of Chester River
sells the above 400 acres called "Salisbury Plains", near Tuckahoe
Creek. In the deed, the recital of the chain of title shows that Thomas
Hutchinson was the owner who sold the land to Thomas Bruff; [Deed; Talbot
County, Maryland]
20th 12th Month 1687 – Burlington Co, NJ - Indictment of
Charles Sheepey for the King upon the Complaynt and accusation of Elizabeth
Hutcheson.
Elizabeth Hutcheson Attested
deposeth, That when shee was in bedd at her Fathers house at Oneanickon in a
Chamber, where the whole family used to lye, the said Charles Sheepey came to
her bed side and putt his hand into the Bed to the Knee of her the said
Elizabeth and from thence to her Elbowe, and that shee caught hold of his hand,
and thereupon cryed out to the maid belowe in the house, to bring up a Candle
for shee had gott some body by the hand, and the maid and the rest of the house
said Shee did only dreame soe, and therefore delayed to come; But when shee the
said Elizabeth Continued calling more earnestly, a candle was brought up, but
Sheepey perceiving the Candle snatched away his hand and slipt away to his owne
bedd; And that Shee intended to complayne thereof to her fahter; but Shee
understanding that most of the House were of opinion shee only dreamed soe shee
concluded they would persuade her Father it was butt her dreame, and that shee
should but then have his anger by it, and therefore did not speake of it.
Alsoe further Shee the said
Elizabeth deposeth that the said Sheepey made her and her Sister Martha beleeve
hee could conjure, or tell fortunes, and by that means at severall tymes gott
money from them.
Alsoe further that
afterwards, when she the said Elizabeth and her Sister Martha lived at the
Falls, the said Charles Sheepey alsoe then living there, shee the said
Elizabeth and Martha went to Thomas Lamberts wife to give leave to her daughter
Betty to goe and lye with them, in regard all the rest of the family was gone
from home, but they two, and the said Charles Sheepey; but in regards Thomas
Lamberts wife understood there was one man at home, shee said it was needlesse
and therefore said shee could not then well spare her; And that therefore they
went home themselves; And when they went to bed they thrust in some apron or
clothes betweene the sneck (there being noe Lock or bolt on the doore of the
roome where they lay) to keep it fast, And that in the night the said Charles
Sheepey gott in and came into the bedd to her the said Elizabeth and her
Sister, and that the said Sheepey when said Elizabeth endeavoured to resist him
held her hands, and Shee then struggling and crying out awakened her sister
Martha, and that notwithstanding they did both with all their strength strive
to resist and repulse the said Sheepey, yet hee did then against the will of
her the said Elizabeth force the said Elizabeth and with his yard had the use
of her body by carnall Copulation; And that since that tyme hee never had to
doe with her, or attempted it further.
Alsoe Martha Hutcheson upon
her Attestation Deposeth and Sayth that the tenour of her Sisters deposition
above is true.
[John Tomlinson said he saw
someone go from Elizabeth's bed to where Charles Sheepey slept on the night at
her Fathers house at Oneanickon, etc. Charles Steepey testified and gave his
version of events denying that he did anything as was stated. However, he did
say "And Further sayth that hee had Carnal knowledge of the body of the
said Elizabeth severall tymes: That the first tyme hee had to doe with her was
out of doores under an Oak about a stones cast from the house, the second tyme
by the water side, at which tyme hee sayth Shee followed him and asked him to
doe it, a Third tyme in the house, a fourth tyme in the Parlour on the Bed: and
sayth that hee never forced her, but Shee was alwayes as willing as hee."
Sheepy had Jonathan Fox testify and Samuel Houghton. Foxx said that Sheepey
told him he had had sex with Elizabeth several times including that morning
when Fox and John Tomlinson "went to George Hutchesons Plantation at the
Falls" and that "Elizabeth was unwilling to be at either Plantation
without her Sister". He also had heard from Samuel Sykes that Elizabeth
had told the maid that Sheepey had ravished her and she was afraid she was
"with Child". John Tomlinson testified as did Samuel Houghton, Thomas
Lambert, Lewis Carpenter and Sheepey was again called.
Several women in Court;
namely the wife of Samuell Jenings, wife of John Budd, wife of Edward Hunloke,
wife of William Emley and wife of Richard Guy testified that they examined
Elizabeth Hutcheson and they concluded that by Sheepey saying he had use of her
body several times that he "hath greatly wronged her in saying soe, As
that to them plainly appeares according to the naturall couirse of women, And
that to the best of their understandings, What hath beene so done, by the said
Sheepey hath been forcibly..." They then asked that they be able to tell
what they saw to a more modest person who could then tell the jury and it was
done.
The jury began deliberations
into the night and where due back in court at the "Eighth hower in the
morning".
21st 12th month 1687 - Sheepey was found Guilty and he was
then read the sentence:
"That thou shall be
whipt this day betwixt the howers of Two and three in the afternoone upon thy
naked Body at a Carts tayle, from the house of John Butcher in this Towne, to
the house where Abraham Senior inhabitteth and from thence to River side to the
High Street, and from thence downe to the Markett house, And that thou Shalt
have as many stripes laid on as to the Magistrates (who shall be present at thy
execution) Shall be thought meet And from thence thou shall be taken and kept
in Irons for the space of three Moneths from this day next ensuing, dureing
which tyme thous shall be whipt at Three several times more, in manner and
forme as before is mentioned, that is to say on the every third Seaventh day in
each and every of the said three monehts, betweene the howers of Tenne and
twelve of each said day; And that dureing thy said Three Moneths imprisonment
thou shalt be made worke for thy bread; And shall pay the Court Charges and
Fees: And after thy said three Moneths Imprisonment thou shalt for the space of
one yeare and nyne Moneths then next ensuing, be brought (where thou canst be
found in this Province) to each and every Quarter Sessions at Burlington within
the said tyme, And then and there be whipt in manner and forme as afore is
mentioned"; [Burlington County Court Book of West New Jersey].
[This is an excellent case
to read as it gives some otherwise unknown information regarding the residences
and ways of life of several persons; including but not limited to George
Hutcheson, the Proprietor.]
1688 - Thomas Hutchinson was plaintiff,
Robert Hopper was Defendant, Action of Case, declaration read. [Burlington
County Court Book of West Jersey; page 90.]
1688 - The Fynes per Order of the Court -
"...The inhabitants of Nottingham togeather wit all Inhabitants on the
Northeast side of Crosswicks Creek to make a sufficient bridge over the River
Darrwin before the end of the Nynth Moneth next, or otherwise to pay 20 pounds.
Fyne to be Levyed upon their goods and Chattells: And to the end the same may
be accomplished the Court appoint William Emley, Thomas Lambert, Robert Murfin
and William Watson to be Assessors and the money soe assessed to be paid in to
the hands of Mahlon Stacy and Thomas Hutchinson, who are alsoe hereby impowered
to Levy the same (upon neglect of payment) by distresse and Sale of the goods
and Chattells of the persons neglecting to pay the same." [Burlington
County Court Book of West Jersey; page 91.]
1688 - Thomas Hutchinson was a member of
the Grand Jury sitting at Burlington; [Burlington County Court Book of West
Jersey; page 95.]
27 Apr 1688 - Thomas Hutchinson, Tanner, and
Dorothy his wife, to John Attkins - 70
acres called "Hull" in a branch of Island Creek called Croock's
Branch adjoining a parcel bought of Hutchinson by Robert Jones,
Blacksmith. Wit: John Swallow, Richard
France. Dorothy acknowledged the deed
before Edw. Man and George Robins, justices. [Talbot Co., Maryland Land Records, Vol 5, page 197]
1688 28thd. 4th
mon. (June)
York. Letter. Edward Nightingale to Thomas Hutchinson, asking for "Deeds
for ye Tenne pounds pte of the land in West Jersey, which my wife paid thy wife
Dorothy for," to be delivered to George Hutcheson. [West Jersey Records,
Liber B, Part 2]
19 June 1688 - Court at
New Castle - John
Garetson by his Attorney, Robert Hutchinson, acknowledged a deed of AEnfeoffment for a house & Lott in
Newcastle to Mary Mandy as ye Deed beareing date the 18th of June
1688. [Records of the Court of New Castle on Delaware, Vol 2, 1681-1699.]
5 July 1688 - AGeorge Hutcheson, of Burlington...merchant conveys to
Robert Hutcheson, of Onyconickon in West Jersey, Cordwayner, for 40 pounds, 160
acres of land lying and being at Onyconycon aforesaid and whereon the said
Robert Hutcheson now dwellth...@
[Writings of Charles Robbins Hutchinson.]
4 Oct 1688 - Thomas Hutchinson of West Jersey,
late of Talbot County, Maryland, Tanner, and Dorothy his wife, to Nicholas Lowe, "the
plantation whereon I lately dwelt -a tract of land formerly laid out for Miles
Cook, Mariner, -1,000 acres called "Cook's Hope" and by Dorothy,
relict of Miles Cook, sold to John Edmondson, Merchant and by Edmondson to
Hutchinson on Treadhaven Creek “– mentions the dwelling plantation of
Emanuel Jenkinson and Roger Summers but now called “James Edmonson’s Lower
Plantation” and “John Edmondson’s Negro Quarters” – mentions a branch of the
creek near which John Stanley now dwelleth – containing and now laid out for
200 acres. Thomas Hutchinson's signature was witnessed by Judith
Gouldesborough, John Man and Thomas Hale. Dorothy Hutchinson's signature was
witnessed by William Lasmell and Nicholas North. [Talbot Co.,
Maryland Land Records, Vol 5, page 209]
18th, 19th,
and 21st December 1688 - Court of Quarter Sessions held at New
Castle - In the case
of Robart Dyer vs. John Garetson, Robert Hutchinson Awas allso attested and a Pattent
produced: The cause being fully heard the Jurte goe out and bring in their
Verdcit Vidzt: Wee find for the Plt ...@
[Records of the Court of New Castle on Delaware, Vol 2, 1681-1699.]
26 December 1688 – Deed-
Thomas Hutchinson of Burlington, yeoman, and George Hutcheson of Burlington,
yeoman, to Elias Farr, of Farrefield said County, yeoman, or /12 of a shaire in
the Yorkshire or First Tenth.
3 May 1689 – Return of Survey for Christopher
Weatherill, of 647 acres along Delaware River, below Thomas Hutchinson… [NJ,
Revell’s Book of Surveys.]
13 May 1689 – Return of Survey by Daniel Leeds,
Surveyed for Thomas Hutchinson, a tract of land BEGINNING at a white oak mark't
for corner by a path side that leads to Wissomencey, SE to a swamp near the
river called Assimpinck, along said river to the mouth of a Brook Shabbaconck,
upby the said Shabbaconck to oak mark't for corner by said Brook and above the
road to leading towards York. [NJ, Revell’s Book of Surveys, Book
"A", page 154]
17 May 1689 – Return of Survey for Elizabeth
Pope, of 525 acres, adjoining Thomas Hutchinson and Christopher Weatherill….
"The Bounds of George Hutcheson’s Land Comprehending Robert Hutcheson’s
200 acres & John Warrens 60 Excluding John Warrens Settlemt of
200 acres: Plantation at Oneanickon, 1640 acres, between Hananiah Gaunt, Thomas
Scholey, the Indian purchase, John Warren and John Tomlinson…This tract sold to
Richard Stockton as in Book B, page 388." [NJ, Revell’s Book of Surveys.]
3 mo.(May) 18, 1689 - Joseph Hutchinson witnessed a deed
from George Hutcheson to John Chadwick for 100 acres at or near AMount Carmell@ alias AOnnanickon.@
30 May 1689 - Cornelius Mason had 5,000 acres
located and surveyed in what is Cumberland County, New Jersey and the survey
began "at the bound tree of Robert Hutchinson, standing in a valley by the
west-northwest side of the north branch of the river Cohanzick
[Cohansey]." [History of Cumberland County, Page 507.]
June 1689 – Return of Survey for Daniel Coxe
of 28,000 acres on Delaware River, 5 miles 30 chains from point half a mile
above Pilcok’s house Easterly to the Indian purchase, made by Adlord Bowde,
S.E. to Thoms Budd’s Indian purchase, S.W. to Shabbaconck Cr., down the same to
and along Thomas Hutchinson’s, N.W. to and along Christoher Weatherill and Nathl
Pope, thence to the Delaware River. [NJ, Revell’s Book of Surveys.]
11 mon.9, 1689 - At the marriage of George Warren
and Joan Sykes, George, Robert, Joseph, Alice, Anne and Elizabeth Hutchinson
were among the witnesses. [Writings of Charles Robbins Hutchinson.]
9 November 1689 – George & Thomas Hutcheson of
Burlington, proprietors, sold to Christopher Weatherill of said County, yeoman,
100 acres not yet surveyed in the Province, land in the City of Burlington.
12 mo. 3, 1689-90 - James Stanfield, son of Francis
and Grace, to marry Mary Hutchinson, daughter of George Hutchinson, of
Burlington, dated 12 mo. 3, 1689-90, from Chester Monthly Meeting, Pa. Not
recorded. At Phila, 3 mo. 30, 1690. [Certificates of Removal Received at
Philadelphia Monthly Meeting of Friends, 1682-1750.]
10 December 1689 - Thomas Hutchinson, one of the
"Proprietors" of the Yorkshire Tenth (Burlington Co) New Jersey, dies
intestate. "Thomas
Hutcheson, of Hutcheson Manor, dec’d. Inventory of the estate of (107.11.4
pounds); made by Thomas Lambert, Joshua Wright, William Emley and John Lambert.
21 Feb 1695/6 – Account of the estate made by George Hutcheson and Mahlon
Stacy, administrators. [Burlington Co., New Jersey Wills; History of Heston
Family.]
7th , 8th month 1691 - Whereas, I granted a warrant to
Roger Milton, ... for the laying out 4000 acres, and to make return thereof to
me at my office, in Salem, within three months, and no return is yet made. At
the request of Roger Milton, these are to authorize Richard Tindall to lay out
and survey the said 4000 acres of land and marsh as convenient as may be, not
already taken up, nor prejudicial to the proprietor. If it may be convenient
let the 4000 acres be joined upon the lands of Joseph Berkstead, George
Hazlewood, Robert Hutchinson and John Mason, leaving no lands nor cripple
between, so the 4000 acres may be as entire as may be, and make a return of
your doings here to me, at my office in Salem, within three months from date.
Subscribed, James Nevell; [History of Fenwick's Colony, page 508].
8 August 1691 - George Hutcheson was a member of
the Grand Jury in Burlington County, New Jersey; [Burlington County Court Book
of West Jersey; page 128].
1 mo. 10, 1692 - George Hutcheson, of Burlington,
... distiller, conveyed to Richard Stockton, late of Flushing, in Long Island,
yeoman for 325 pounds - AAll that
his plantation called Oneanickon, in the county of Burlington aforesaid,
conteyning 1,640 acres of land, be it more or less, (excepting 200 acres sold
to Robert Hutcheson and sixty acres sold to John Warren)... I am unable to map
this tract from the description but it extends more than two and a half miles
from east to west, and more than one and a quarter miles from north to south...
The 200 acres which he sold to Robert Hutcheson appears to have been in the
southeast corner of the tract...@
[Writings of Charles Robbins Hutchinson.]
1692 - A warrant to John Worlidge to
survey from Benjamin Clark, son and heir of Thomas Clark, deceased, beginning
by and joining Thomas Hutchinson's land, near Gravelly Run or Stone Creek, and
make a return to me, at my office in Salem, within three months. Subscribed,
James Nevell; [History of Fenwick's Colony, page 508].
3 November 1692 - Court called and Robert Hutcheson
was present; [Burlington County Court Book of West Jersey; page 145.]
16 March 1693 – Michaell Dean, Planter, and
Elizabeth, his wife, of Talbot, to
William Thomas, Tanner – 50 acres, the uppermost part of the land he enjoys in
the right of Elizabeth, his wife – granted by the will of her father Edward
Roper – the whole, 100 acres called “ Double Ridge” – at the head of the
western branch of Bullingbrooke Creek.
Wit: Thomas Delehay, Thomas Hutchinson. [Talbot Co.,
Maryland Land Records, Vol 5, page 197]
1693 - Robert Hutcheson and wife
Complayned of by Mathew Smith and Elizabeth his wife for selling Rum to the
Indians before ... And George Hutcheson gave his Engagement for said R.
Hutchesons appearance: Robert Hutcheson and his wife called but appeare
not...The said Mathew Smith upon their attestation prove before the Court that said
R. Hutchesons wife have sold Rum to the Indians since the last Act made against
it whereupon the Court Fyne Robert Hutcheson 5 pounds according to the Act of
Assembly: The Informers Remitt the halfe of what belongs to them: And the Bench
Remitt the halfe of the other parte of the Fyne: the whole remitted is 50
shillings. And the remainder being 50 shillings. George Hutcheson for want of
Robert Hutchesons appearance to pay the same 50 shillings; [Burlington County
Court Book of West Jersey; page 155.]
23 February 1694 - At the house of Henry Grubb in
Burlington: at the request of Jeremiah Basse Attourney for Doctor Coxe
Plaintiff and George Hutcheson and Mahlon Stacy Administrators of Thomas
Hutchinson etc. Defendants ... Plaintiff having brought an Action of Debt
against George Hutcheson and Mahlon Stacy and also them as Administrators of
the Estate of Thomas Hutchinson late of the County of Burlington aforesaid
Deceased Defendants in an Action of debt for 900 pounds of Lawfull money of
England per Bond..."; [Burlington County Court Book of West Jersey; page
179.]
9th November 1694 - The Court sett...Jeremiah Basse
Attourney for Daniell Cox Esqr. Plaintiff versus Mahlon Stacy and George
Hutcheson etc. and Administrators of Thomas Hutcheson etc. Defendants, Action
Continued; [Burlington County Court Book of West Jersey; page 172.]
20 December 1694 - AGeorge Hutcheson of Burlington, Province of West Jersey,
Distiller,@ conveyed to Isaac Watson...planter,
200 acres of land Ato be
taken up@ ...Isaac Watson is his will, dated 2
mo. (April) 30, 1726, devises to his wife, Joanna, Aone half that plantation belonging to
George Hutcheson@. The
residence of Isaac Watson was the stone house before mentioned... We have the
evidence from Elizabeth, daughter of George Hutchinson, that the distance from
her father=s house to that of Thomas Lambert was
about a mile and a half... Thomas Lambert lived where is now the large brick
house on the Lalor farm, and the distance between, by a path along the bluff
overlooking the lowlands, would be about that farm. [Writings of Charles
Robbins Hutchinson.]
21 January 1695/6 – Deed – John Hutchinson of the
Falls, Burlington Co., tanner, son and heir of Tho: Hutchinson, formerly of
Beverly, County of York, England, late of Hutchinson’s Manor, Burlington Co.,
dec’d, to Robert
Wilson of Crosswicks Creek, yeoman,…sold by his father to George Ward of
Northdale, County of York and by said Ward transferred to said Wilson. [West
Jersey Records, Liber B, Part 2.]
21 February 1695/6 – Deed – George Hutcheson of
Burlington, merchant, Mahlon Stacy of Baylifield, West Jersey, yeoman, and Jno.
Hutchinson of Burlington County, son and heir of Tho. Hutchinson of said
County, tanner, dec’d, to John Tatham of Burlington Esqr., for the house and
water lots…land formerly owned by Joseph Helmsley and Tho: Pearson, from whom
the grantors bought it. [West
Jersey Records, Liber B, Part 2.]
22 February 1695/6 – Deed – John Hutchinson of
Hutchinson’s Manor, Burlington Co., tanner, to George Hutcheson of Burlington,
merchant, for all the town and water lots in Burlington, belonging to ¼ to 1/8,
wanting 1/64 of the share. [West Jersey Records, Liber B, Part 2.]
8 March 1696 - "John Hutchinson of Hutchinson
Mannor in county of Burlington...yeoman (Sonn, and heir unto Thomas Hutchinson
of the same late deceased, Yeoman" to Thomas Hough of the county of Bucks,
Pennsylvania, yeoman..." [Unrecorded Deed, in private hands as of 1983.)
21 March 1695/6 – Deed – John Hutchinson of
Hopewell, Burlington County, yeoman, son and heir of Tho: Hutchinson of the
same place, tanner, dec’d to Mahlon Stacy of Ballifield, same County, tanner,
for 1/12 of a share.
[West Jersey Records, Liber B, Part 2.]
24 June 1695 - Rev. Thomas Bridge arrived in West
New Jersey some time previous to June 24, 1695, on which date he and John
Green, of Cohansey, blacksmith, obtained from George Hutchinson, of Burlington,
a deed for nine hundred and twelve acres adjoining Beller's survey and the
south side of the Cohansey, - six hundred and eight for Bridge and three
hundred and four for Green; [History of the Counties of Gloucester, Salem and
Cumberland New Jersey, page 503.]
18 Nov
1695 - A Robert
Jones of Philadelphia sells land in Talbot Co, where the deed mentions it involved
one acre "purchased of Thomas Hutchinson, late of Talbot, between the
house and lot of ... in ye Towne of Oxford"; [Talbot Co., Maryland Land Records, Vol 9, page 64]
1696 - George Hutchinson removed to
Philadelphia, where he died in March 1698, leaving a will dated 2 mo (April) of
that year, in which he is described as AGeorge Hutchison of Philadelphia, merchant@, and as Abeing at present under weakness and
indisposition of body but of sound and disposing mind and memory...@ He probably died soon afterwards and certainly before
November 2, 1698, when his executors conveyed proprietary rights in West Jersey
under said will. [Writings of Charles Robbins Hutchinson.]
20 February 1696/7 - John Hutchinson of Hutchinson’s
Manor ye County of Burlington & Province of West Jersey, yeoman, Son &
Heir unto Thomas Hutchinson of the same, late deceased, yeoman, conveyed to
"Robert Pearson of Crosswicks Creek in ye sd. County of Burlington &
yeoman … five hundred acres of land in any place to be taken up within ye
Yorkshire Tenth belonging to ye said John Hutchinson as a Proprietor, not
before surveyed & taken up by any other person." [West Jersey Records, Liber B, Part
2.]
8 March 1696 - In a deed, dated 4 May 1709,Thomas
Hough and Jane "his now wife" of Springfield in the county of
Burlington ... yeoman to Richard Scudder of Hopewell...yeoman...[is the
following:] Whereas John Hutchinson of Hopewell, yeoman, son an heir of Thomas
Hutchinson of same, Gentleman, by deed dated March 8, 1696, deeded to Thomas
Hough... [Unrecorded deed, in private hands as of 1983].
2 mo. 15, 1697 - Robert Hutcheson, of Philadelphia,
Cordwayner, conveyed to ADavid
Curtis of mount Pleasant, in the county of Burlington...Planter...for 20
pounds, 160 acres. (Formerly surveyed by Symon Charles for 200 acres), lying
and being at Onyanickon@...from
which it appears that Robert had accompanied George Hutchinson on his removal
to Philadelphia. [Writings of Charles Robbins Hutchinson.]
28 May 1697 – Deed – John Hutchinson of
Hutchinson’s Manor, Burlington County, son and heir of Tho: Hutchinson dec’d to
Mahlon Stacy of Ballifield, said County, yeoman, for 1,000 acres in West
Jersey. [West Jersey
Records, Liber B, Part 2.]
25 January 1698 -
Philadelphia Month Meeting Records of deaths of non-Quakers. Buried on this date Alice
Hutchinson, wife of George.
9 March 1698 -
Philadelphia Month Meeting Records of deaths of non-Quakers. Buried on this date George
Hutcheson.
14 March 1698 - Robert Wheeler Plaintiff versus
John Hutcheson defendant in an action of the case withdrawn; [Burlington County
Court Book of West Jersey; page 216.]
8 April 1698 -
Philadelphia. Hutcheson, Hutchinson, George, of Philadelphia, merchant, copy of
will of.
Daughters - Rachel (under age), Marie Stanfield of Philadelphia, Elizabeth
Peeres of Burlington and her children Marie and Martha, daughter Martha's child
Mary, son (in-law?) James Stanfield, children of son Samuel in England. Real
and personal property. James Stanfield and Charles Read, both of Philadelphia,
executors and guardians of Rachel, who is to be put in charge of Susannah
Turner or widow Elizabeth Bacon of West Jersey. Witnesses -Francis Cooke,
Joseph Wilcox, Thomas Budd, Mary Brodwell, Mary Pearse. Proved May 11, 1698, in
Philadelphia, March 1, 1704-5, at Burlington, [Liber I, page 100, and
Burlington Wills]. 1704-5 -March 1. Letters testamentary on the estate, granted
to Charles Read of Philadelphia, merchant, surviving executor.
11 May 1698 - Letters testamentary granted by
Lieut. Gov'r Wm. Markham of Pennsylvania to James Stanfield, Charles Read
having refused to act as executor, [Burlington Wills].
8th May 1699 - Burlington County Court - The said
Thomas Budd as treasurer made his Complaint to the Court that John Hutcheson
Collector of part of the provinciall and county tax doth neglect to pay in the
Same Whereupon it is ordered that a Warrant shall be issued out for to Levy the
same; [Burlington County Court Book of West Jersey; page 220.]
September 1699 - James Stanfield. Legacy of 150 pounds
to Ratchell Hutchinson, under age, and daughter of George Hutchinson, the same
to be paid to Joseph Wilcox, Charles Read, and John Budd, Jr. Legacies to Mary,
daughter of John Pearce of Burlington; to the "two children of Thoms Budd,
of Phila., cooper; to Thomas Clayton of Phils., minister; to Mary King; to
Dinah Burden, "who is now attending me;" and to six sisters, viz:
Mary, Sarah, Elizabeth, Grace, Hannah and Deborah. Francis Chad of Chester,
Executor. Signed – 1 Sept. 1699; Proved – 27 September 1699; witnesses – Semerecie
Adams, Peter Boss, Jr., Thomas Budd.
14 November, 1699 - John
Brearley of Maiden Town yeoman to John Hutchinson of Hutchinson's Manor,
yeoman, 600 acres, "...abutting on Delaware River westward and on ye
eastward on other lands of said John Hutchinson..." [West Jersey Deeds,
Book B, Page 656].
6th January 1700\01 - This tract of 2,000 acres,
purchased by Thomas Hutchinson from John Fenwick on 30 April 1675, was situated
on the Cohansey River in Salem County and was sold in four lots of 500 acres
each by his son, John Hutchinson, on January 6th, 1700/01 [West Jersey Recods
-Liber B, Part 2, Folio 685].
14 February 1701 - John Hutchinson of Hopewell
conveyed to Benjamin Field of Burlington Town, 1/12 of ? equal parts as per
recital in a 1728 deed of William Coate (Hunterdon County).
20th February 1700/1 - John Hutchinson was on the Grand
Jury; Stephen Willson Constable of Hopewell made answer that he Summoned the
inhabitants who mett at the place appointed but refused to chuse Assessors or Collectors,
excepting Joshua Ely, John Hutchinson, Thomas Hough and himself (said
Constable) who were willing to chuse; [Burlington County Court Book of West
Jersey; page 246, 247.]
6 January 1700/1 – Deed – John Hutchinson of
Hutchinson’s Manor, Hopewell Township, Burlington Co. to Benjamin Field of
Chesterfield, both yeoman, for 500 acres in Salem County. [West Jersey Records,
Liber B, Part 2.]
14 December 1700 – Deed – John Hutchinson of
Hutchinson’s Manor, Hopewell Township, Burlington Co, to Andrew Heath, of the
same county, 300 acres. [West Jersey Records, Liber B, Part 2.]
17 December 1701 – Return of Survey to Thomas
Hutchinson, dec’d, for the accommodating of the 2,000 acre tract, of 500 acres
bought by Benjamin Field of John Hutchinson, on Stow alias Unknown Creek, near
Bradwayes lower corner. [West Jersey Records, Liber B, Part 2.]
1702 - John Hutchinson and wife Joyce (nee
Venables) join in deed of heirs of William Venables, deceased, for land in
Bucks Co, Pa. John Hutchinson was of Hopewell, Burlington Co, NJ [Bucks Co Deed
- 3:67].
February 1702 - John Hutcheson aids Joshua Ely
settle a debt with the witnesses to the settlement being John Ely and Joyce
Hutcheson, who signed the agreement; [Burlington County Court Book of West
Jersey; page 284, 285.]
3rd November 1702 - Came William Beakes and Exhibited
into Court a Certaine Bill against John Hutchinson of a Plea of Debt which bill
followeth in these words Burlington to wit Said John Hutchinson of the County
of Burlington yeoman was Summoned to answer William Beaks of a Plea that he
render unto him the Summe of fourteen pounds...which to him he Oweth and from
him unjustly detaineth etc...; [Burlington County Court Book of West Jersey;
page 274.]
5th November 1702 - To the Sheriffe of the County of Burlington...We
Command You that the goods and Chattles of John Hutcheson of the Township of
Hopewell in the County of Burlington aforesaid yeoman in Our Bailywick you
Cause to be Levied as well A Certaine Debt of...Money of this Province of West
New Jersey which William Beakes of the County of Bucks in the Province of
Pencilvania in Our Court of Common Pleas held before our Justices thereof at
Burlington aforesaid the Twentieth day of February Next...whereof the Said John
Was Convict and that you have then and there this Writt Wittnesse Our Hand and
County Seale at Burlington aforesaid...Mahlon Stacy, Thomas Gardner upon which
the Sheriffe made a Returne in these words – Burlington 17th
December 1792 Levied the Summe within Mentioned and have it all ready payd it
to Plaintiff by Consent of Defendant , Henery Grubb Sheriffe. [Burlington
County Court Book of West Jersey; page 291.]
20 April 1703 – John Hutchinson of Hopewell,
county of Burlington, New Jersey…conveyed to Andrew Heath, Richard Ayre, Abiel
Davis and Zebulon Heston, of the same county, a piece of land on the easterly
side of the highway leading between the house of the said John Hutchinson and
Andrew Heath… containing two acres, in trust for the inhabitants of the said
township of Hopewell … for the public and common use and benefit of the whole
township, for the erecting and building a public meeting house thereon, and
also for a place of burial… Thus began a church of the Protestant religion and
Church of England. The burial place and the church where located on what is now
the Trenton Psychiatric Institution, Ewing Twp., New Jersey, a suburb of
Trenton, NJ.
12 & 14 Feb 1704 - John Hutchinson of Hutchinson
Manor, Hopewell, NJ (acc. to recital in 1704 deed of Nathan Allen) conveyed to
Benjamin Field of Chesterfield 1/12 of 1/10 share of West Jersey, with other
lots belonging to same and also 300 acres allowance for highways. (Land along
the Delaware River.) [West Jersey Deed AAA:67]
10 April 1704 - John Hutchinson, of Hopewell,
Burlington Co, yeoman; will of. Wife Joyce. Children -Marmaduke, Isaac,
Elizabeth; legacies to bro-in-law Zebulon Heston and wife Dorothy, to sister
Hannah. Home farm on Physick Creek, land adjoining Andrew Heath and other real
property. Personal estate. Executors - the wife and Thomas Lambert of
Nottingham. Witnesses - Roger Parke, Andrew Heath, William Emley, senior.
Proved June 6, 1704. [Liber I, page 69.]
Between 10 Apr 1704 –
6 June 1704 -
John Hutchinson of Hutchinson Manor, dies, in what was then called Hopewell,
Burlington Co [now known as Ewing Township, Mercer County, New Jersey.
1 March 1704/5 - Letters testamentary on the estate
of George Hutcheson/Hutchinson, late of Philadelphia, deceased, granted to
Charles Read of Philadelphia, merchant, surviving executor.
9 May 1704 - Inventory of the personal estate,
355.2.4 pounds, incl. bonds of Andrew Heath, Nathaniel Wade, Daniel Howel,
Moses Pettet, Daniel & Meg Daniel, James Harpens, John Knowes and Petter
Hall; made by John Bearly, Zebulon Ashton and Joshua Wright.
7 June 1704 - Jonathan David of Hopewell
Township to Susannah Adams of Hopewell Township, widdow..." within
Hopewell Township and part of a tract called The Society, consisting of 30,000
acres plus 500 additional acres purchased by Jonathan Davis of Thomas Revell as
agent to the Society...beginning at a tree for a corner in the line on the rear
of the land late John Hutchinsons Mannor...[West Jersey Deeds, Book AA, page
52].
[Note: There is another
John Hutchinson, with connections into NJ, who married Phebe Kirkbride,
daughter of Joseph & Phebe (Blackshaw) Kirkbride, and who was
from Falls Twp, Bucks Co, PA. He witnessed deeds and bought land in Falls
Twp., Bucks Co, on dates [10 September 1704 & 7 December 1705] AFTER
the death [between April & June 1704] of John Hutchinson, the son of Thomas
& Dorothy (Storr) Hutchinson, of New Jersey, which proves that the John
Hutchinson, who married Phebe Kirkbride, IS NOT THE John Hutchinson, son of
Thomas, "The Proprietor."]
27 February 1705 - Baptized - Hopewell Church,
Burlington County - Marmaduke, Isaac, and Elizabeth Hutchinson [Register of St.
Ann's Church (later St. Mary's), Mount Holly, Burlington County, New Jersey; [Early
Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol.1,
by Charlotte D. Meldrum, 1995.]
27 September 1705 - Isaac Hutchinson, son of John and
Joyce (Venables) Hutchinson, baptized with brothers and sisters at Hopewell, by
the rector of St. Mary's Protestant Episcopal Church, Burlington, NJ.
[He is described in 1727
as Isaac Hutchinson, of Trenton, NJ, gentleman. He married (1) Mary Ellison and
(2) at Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Phebe Ward. (Declaration of Intentions: 10
mo 4 1740) They moved to Bucks Co, Pennsylvania in 1749, and are not found in
New Jersey again.] [Children by the first marriage were Dorothy, Thomas,
Elizabeth, John, Isaac, Sarah. The children listed here are from the marriage
of Isaac's first wife and come from a listing found in the notes of Charles C.
Gardner's collection-Genealogical Dictionary of NJ, Alexander Library,
Rutgers.]
25 July 1714 - Hutcheson,
Rachel, of Burlington Co. She is the daughter of George Hutchinson, deceased. Inventory
of her personal estate of, to wit: two bonds of 60 pounds, new currency; made
by James Bollen and his wife Martha Bollen. [According to writings of Charles
Robbins Hutchinson]
Martha Bollen (nee
Hutchinson, daughter of George Hutchinson, deceased) was the widow of ______
Dennis. However, Charles Robbins Hutchinson=s work says that she married (1) Thomas Budd and (2) James
Bollen. He makes no mention of her being the widow Dennis. She was buried in
Philadelphia, 14 June 1724. [Henshaw=s
Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. II, p. 441-2.]
5 September 1716 - AGeorge Hutchinson, of London, Peruke [wig] Maker, grandson and
heir to George Hutchinson of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, merchant, deceased,
and sole heir of Mary and Rachel, two of the daughters of the said George
Hutchinson, the said grandfather, both deceased without issue@conveyed to AJames Bullen, of the County of Chester
in the Province of Pennsylvania, millwright, and Martha his wife, she being
another daughter of the said George Hutchinson of New Jersey but last of
Philadelphia, deceased,@ all his
interest in the estate of his said grandfather in New Jersey.
11 April 1717 - In the Will of Robert Hutchinson
of the County of New Castle on Delaware, yeoman, ...Testator names also his
uncle Joseph tailor, mother Margaret Hutchinson, sisters Mary Hutchinson and
Hannah Richeson, brother-in-law John Richson and appoints him and "my
cusine and friend Gunning Bedford executors. [Abstract of original Will, Hall
of Records, Dover, Delaware.]
13 November 1721 - Mary Collander, of New Castle on
Delaware, deeds lands given her by her grandfather, George Hutcheson, Deceased,
as she is daughter of Elizabeth Pears [Pierce, wife of John Pierce of
Burlington], daughter of said George Hutcheson, deceased. [West Jersey Deed
D:32].
14 June 1724 - Martha Hutchinson, daughter of
George Hutchinson, deceased, married (1st) ______ Dennis, and (2nd
) James Bollen, and was buried on this date in Philadelphia. However, according
to the work of Charles Robbins Hutchinson, Martha married Thomas Budd (son of
Thomas and Susanna) prior to 1698 and had then one child named Mary, and she
later had a son, George Budd. According to him, she married second James
Bollen. [burial and date - Henshaw=s
Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. II, p. 441-2.]
2 July 1725 - James Bollen deeds to Gershom Mott,
Jr, tract in Hanover or Whippany, recites that George Hutchinson, formerly of
West Jersey and later Philadelphia, by will in 1697, left property to his son
Samuel's children in England and 1/3 acres to daughters Mary and Martha and 1/3
to children of his daughter Elizabeth Peers. Rachel did die underage and
unmarried and George Hutchinson of London, peruke [wig] maker, grandson and
heir at law to the above George Hutchinson, by his attorney Anthony Morris,
released all his rights in 1/3 of above to James ollen and wife Martha,
daughter of George Hutchinson, Dec 5, 1716, .... [HuCt 1- reverse:74].
1727 - Isaac Hutchinson, of Trenton, New
Jersey, is described in a deed as a gentleman.
Ye 28th Ye 5th
Month 1728 –
"From Friends at Richland/Elco/Great Swamp to Friends at Burlington
Monthly Meeting. Sendeth Greetings – Whereas Isaac Hutchinson of Hopewell
requested of us a certificate in order for Marriage we certify while amongst us
was a Lad of a sober conversation and frequented our meeting. He being gone
from amongst us these three years so we recommend him under your care desiring
his groath in the Truth and Prosperity everyway. He for any engagement of
marriage he is clear from any that we know of. Signed – William Nixon, John
Grofly, Thomas Roborts, Arthur Jones, John ??amson, John Griffith, Peter Lester
Senior, John Lester, George Phillips Senior, John Ball, Edward Roberts, Abraham
Griffith."
Ye 5th Ye 6th
mo 1728 – Burlington
Monthly Meeting – "Isaac Hutchinson and Mary Alloson appared at this
Meeting and declared their intentions of Marriage it being the first time of
their appearance."
12th day, 7th mon., 1728 - Isaac Hutchinson, son of John
Hutchinson, late of Hopewell, Burlington County and Mary Allison, dau of
Richard Allison, late of Burlington, dec'd, married 12th da, 7th mo, 1728. [Early
Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol.1,
by Charlotte D. Meldrum, 1994.]
Ye 13th Ye 7th
mo 1728 - Burlington
Monthly Meeting – "Isaac Hutchinson and Mary Alloson appared at this
Meeting and declared their intentions of Marriage the ??? And produced a ??? by
way of Certificate from the proparitive Meeting in the County of Bucks in
Pennsylvania which gave satisfaction to this meeting for which they were left
to their liberty to solemize their intentions when they shall see ??? to it be
orderly performed and the friends appointed to attend ye same are Richard Smith
& Matthew Champion & to give report at the next Meeting."
Ye 7th of Ye 8th
mo 1728 - Burlington
Monthly Meeting – "The two friends that was appointed to attend the
marriage of Isaac Hutchinson and Mary Alloson reported that it was orderly
performed."
9 May 1733 - Mortgage - In the township of
Trenton, BEGINNING at black oak which stands upon the line between the land of
Nathaniel Leonard deceased and the lands of Isaac Hutchinson, along the line of
Ebenezer Prout's land to a stone for corner, partly along by the land of the
said Prout and partly along by the land of Robert Pearson's to
stone...[Hunterdon County Loan Office, Book "A", Page 50
Ye 3rd of Ye 1st
mo 1728/9 -
Burlington Monthly Meeting – "The clerk produced a Certificate for Mary
Hutchinson which was read approved and signed."
Ye 2nd of Ye 5th
mo 1729 – Falls
Monthly Meeting – "A Certificate from Burlington mo: Monthly meeting
relating to Mary Hutchinson was read and accepted."
30 August 1733 - Isaac Hutchinson and his wife,
Mary, of Trenton Township, NJ, conveyed land there to William Mott, Middletown
Township, Monmouth County, gentleman, ...land in Trenton Township, of 311
acres, BEGINNING at a stone on the bank of the River Delaware being corner of
the tract lately Robert Pearson's...(Excepting and reserving one rod square of
land in the Grave Yard on the Hill called Grave Yard Hill and also 2 acres of
land belonging unto the Church as the same is already bonded and conveyed for
the use of said Church, part of the tract devised to Isaac Hutchinson by the
last Will and testament of father John Hutchinson deceased, dated April 10,
1704, and other part, descended unto him as Brother and Heir of Marmaduke
Hutchinson, deceased...[West Jersey Deeds, Book "G-G", page 205;
NJHMC - Hutch, Fam Rec's, Page 900 ?]
27 September 1739 - Elias Cotting, the first clerk of
the county [Cumberland] after the setting off of this county from Salem, came
here from Boston, Mass., in 1732....Sept. 27, 1739, he bought from the heirs of
Robert Hutchinson one thousand acres of land and marsh on the Cohansey...;
[History of the Counties of Gloucester, Salem and Cumberland New Jersey, page
614.]
Ye 4th of Ye
10th mo 1740
– Chesterfield Monthly Meeting Men’s Minutes – "Isaac Hutchinson &
Phebe Ward appeared at this meeting & declared their Intentions of Marriage
the first time. Friends appointed Thomas Hooten & William Plasket to
inquire concerning his conversation & clearness in Respect to marriage &
make a report to our next Monthly Meeting."
Ye 5th of Ye
12th mo 1740
– Chesterfield Monthly Meeting – "The Friends appointed to attend the
marriage of Isaac Hutchinson last meeting are desired to make their
report."
June 1740 [?] - Isaac Hutchinson, of Trenton, married
his second wife, Phebe Ward, at Chesterfield Monthly Meeting. (Declaration of
Intentions: 10 mo 4 1740) They moved to Bucks Co, Pennsylvania in 1749, and are
not found in New Jersey again. Children by the first marriage were Dorothy,
Thomas, Elizabeth, John, Isaac, Sarah. [The children listed here are from
the marriage of Isaac's first wife and come from a listing found in the notes
of Charles C. Gardner's collection-Genealogical Dictionary of NJ, Alexander
Library, Rutgers.]
7 April 1751 – John Reading of Amwell Twp,
Hunterdon Co, Western Division of New Jersey, sold to Philip Calvin of the same
place a tract of land that reading bought of Isaac Hutchinson devisee of John
Hutchinson and grandfather, Thomas Hutchinson. This land was purchased by Reading
from Isaac Hutchinson of the County of Hunterdon, which said Isaac claims as
heir at law … "from the Council of Proprietors upon a settlement of his
father’s, John Hutchinson’s and his grandfather’s Thomas Hutchinson’s, their
share of the proprietary lands held by them…" [Hunterdon Co Parchment Deed,
Hunterdon County Historical Society]
30 April 1751 – John Reading of Amwell Twp,
Hunterdon Co, Western Division of New Jersey, from John Youngblood, of the same
place, where Thomas Hutchinson, late of the Province, Gent:, deceased, in his
life …stood lawfully seized of parts and shares of properties, which land
became the right in law "to John Hutchinson his Son and Surviving
heir," who being so seized of said lands became the property of, and descended
unto Isaac Hutchinson his surviving son and heir" and being properties
then "unsold by his father and Grandfather the Said John and Thomas" being the quantity of one thousand
six hundred and eighty seven acres… "and the said Isaac Hutchinson being
thus Intitled to the said Proprietary Rights and the lands surveying and
appropriating thereof to the said Isaac Hutchinson A Warrant was granted
from the Council of Proprietors…dated the third day of August Anno Dom One
thousand Seven Hundred and twenty six"… and the said Isaac Hutchinson
being so entitled sells by one indenture, 400 acres, dated 17 April 1750, to
the said John Reading. Now, by this indenture, John Reading sells 44 acres of
it to John Youngblood. [Hunterdon Co Parchment Deed, Hunterdon County Historical
Society]
The children listed from the
marriage of his Isaac's first wife, Mary, come from a listing found in the
notes of Charles C. Gardner's collection-Genealogical Dictionary of NJ, found in
Alexander Library, Rutgers. These same six children, in the same order, have
also been given to me by a Jack Hutchinson of 12880 Cambridge Circle, Leawood,
KS 66209, from his grandfathers' family notes.
In 2004, I found the following item which in my opinion says that there were
other male descendants of Thomas and Dorothy (Storr) Hutchinson:
This is a list of those
determined Loyalists by the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania as
appeared in the Pennsylvania Packet, dated 31 October, 1778.
31 October 1778 - A proclamation by the Supreme
Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania..."Isaac
Hutchinson, Thomas Hutchinson and Marmaduke Hutchinson, yeoman; all now or late
of the township of New Britain, Bucks County...have severally adhered
to, and knowingly and willingly aided and assisted the enemies of the State,
and the United States of America, by having joined their enemies within this
State. AND WHEREAS, the following named persons, inhabitants of others of
the United States of America, who have real estates within this Common Wealth,
that is to say...Isaac Hutchinson, Thomas Hutchinson, Marmaduke Hutchinson...to
render themselves respectively to some or one of the Justices of the Supreme
Court, or of the Justices of the Peace of on of the counties within this State,
on or before Tuesday the fifteenth day of December next ensuing, and also abide
their legal trial for such treasons, on pain that every of them the said ...
Isaac Hutchinson, Thomas Hutchinson, Marmaduke Hutchinson...nor rendering
himself as aforesaid, and abiding the trial aforesaid, shall from and after the
said fifteenth day of December next, stand, and be attainted of High Treason,
to all intents and purposes, and shall suffer such pains and penalties, and
undergo all such forfeitures, as persons attainted of High Treason ought to do.
And all the faithful subjects of this State, are to take notice of this
Proclamation, and govern themselves accordingly. Given by order of the Council,
under the hand of the Honorable GEORGE BRYAN, Esquire, Vice President, and the
seal of the State , at Philadelphia, this thirtieth day of October, in the year
of our Lore, one thousand, seven hundred, and seventy eight. Attested to by
TIMOTHY MATLACK, Sec.
[New Britain Township was in
Bucks County, where other members of this Hutchinson family lived; AND with
these names common to the Hutchinson family on the NEW JERSEY side;
specifically Isaac Hutchinson, son of John and grandson of Thomas Hutchinson
the "Proprietor,"[ I am of the opinion that these three subjects so
named are related to and descended from the NJ family of Thomas & Dorothy
(Storr) Hutchinson and MOST probably the children of Isaac Hutchinson's family,
who had moved to Bucks Co., from New Jersey.]
The above John (Jack) Hutchinson from Kansas also gave me an email from an
Andrew Quackenbush of Ontario, Canada dated December 9, 2003. In it,
Quackenbush states that "a few years after Marmaduke, Isaac and Thomas
Hutchinson were charged in 1778 in PA, a Marmaduke Hutchinson and Isaac Storr
Hutchinson appeared in New Brunswick, Canada, as new settlers. Marmaduke
Hutchinson was a Quaker and he claimed to be from Crosswicks, New Jersey
[Burlington County], which was a Quaker settlement. Marmaduke moved with his
family in the early 1800s from New Brunswick, Canada to a Quaker settlement in
Ontario, Canada, and I [Anderw Quackenbush] am descended from him as follows:
Marmaduke Hutchinson; daughter Dorothy Hutchinson, born 1788; daughter Martha
Richmond, born 1811; Almeda Van Volkenburgh, born 1841; son Andrew Quackenbush,
born 1875; son Randal Quackenbush, born 1911; and son Andrew Quackenbush, born.
1967. Marmaduke's descendants have names that include Dorothy, Isaac, Marmaduke
and Storr, so I'm fairy certain that they are descended from Thomas Hutchinson
who married Dorothy Storr, daughter of Marmaduke Storr."
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Based upon the deeds of
Talbot County, Maryland and those of West New Jersey, Thomas Hutchinson of
Beverley, County of York, England, came to this country between the 24th of May
in 1679, when he was described as of Beverley, England and 15 June 1680, when
he was described as being of Talbot County, Maryland. These deeds and the
records of the Burlington County Court Book of West New Jersey also show that
Thomas Hutchinson and his wife Dorothy, moved to West New Jersey between the
27th of April 1688 and the 4th of October 1688.
Thomas Hutchinson was
described as "a tanner" of Beverley, Yorkshire, in West New Jersey
deeds, from 1678 to as late as 1679, which shows conclusively that he did not
come to America in the ship Kent late in the fall of 1677. However,
these same deeds do show that Thomas Hutchinson came to this country from
England between 24th of May 1679 and 15 June 1680.
Thomas Hutchinson - Hutchinson's Manor
Zebulon Heston, I, was born
about 1670 in Middlesex, England, and died at Wrightstown, Pennsylvania, in
1720. He came to this country from England in 1683. On 3 December 1698, he married
Dorothy Hutchinson, of Hopewell, a town adjacent to Hutchinson's Manor, in New
Jersey. Dorothy was the daughter of Thomas and Dorothy (Storr) Hutchinson.
(Dorothy Storr was born in Oustwick, England.) After Zebulon Heston died,
Dorothy (Hutchinson) Heston married Thomas Stackhouse in October 1728.
Stackhouse had been previously married to Grace Heaton, of Bucks County,
Pennsylvania, and this first marriage produced fourteen children.
Thomas Hutchinson's family
was from Beverly, in Holderness, Yorkshire, England. Thomas Hutchinson first
settled in this country in Maryland and then came into New Jersey. He was the
owner of Hutchinson's Manor which was developed from land obtained from William
Penn which laid along the Delaware River. [George Hutchinson also received land
from Penn. He was from Sheffield, Yorkshire, England.] Thomas was born in 1640
and died in 1689. He was a Quaker and married Dorothy Storr on 29 March 1668,
in Yorkshire, England. She died in England before Thomas came to New Jersey.
They had the following known children that were baptized in Hull, England:
1. Ebenezer Hutchinson -
born 10 June 1670 and died as a child.
2. Thomas Hutchinson - born
10 February 1672 and died as a child.
3. John Hutchinson - born 29
August 1674 in Yorkshire, England. John married Joyce Venables, daughter of
William and Elizabeth Venables. He made his Will on 10 April 1704 which was
probated at Hopewell, Burlington County, New Jersey. In this Will, John
mentions his sisters, Hannah and Dorothy (Hutchinson) Heston. John had the
following known children:
A.
Marmaduke Hutchinson - Charles R. Hutchinson says that he was still a minor in
1706, died without issue and apparently unmarried previous to 30 August 1733.
B.
Isaac Hutchinson - married Mary Allanson on 28 July 1728. Charles R. Hutchinson
says that after Maraduke died, Isaac became the only living representative of
the name and estate of his grandfather, Thomas Hutchinson, "the
Proprietor". In 1727, Isaac is described as "Isaac Hutchinson, of Trenton,
in the county of Hunterdon, gentleman."
C.
Elizabeth Hutchinson - She was mentioned in John's Will under the age of 25
according to Charles R. Hutchinson. He suggests that she married as early as
1706 a William Wardle, yeoman, of Hopewell, NJ.
4. Dorothy Hutchinson - born
1677 and married Zebulon Heston (above).
5. Hannah Hutchinson - died
unmarried (Will Book I-P90).
[One un-authored note
gathered elsewhere with no proof, suggests that the John and Elizabeth
(Pearson) Hutchinson line descends from Thomas Hutchinson & wife, Dorothy
Storr.]