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Title: Story of the Hutchinsons (tribe of Jesse)
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Hutchinson, John W. (John Wallace), 1821-1908 Mann, Charles E. (Charles Edward), b. 1857 Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Subjects: Hutchinson family Hutchinson Family (Singers) Singers Abolitionists
Publisher: Boston : Lee and Shepard
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ith his Avife Alice and fourchildren, emigrated to this country in 1634, and settledin Salem Village, now Danvers, )\Iass. The first official notice made of him is in the townrecords, when it is stated that in recognition of his pub-lic spirit, as being the possessor and introducer of thefirst plow brought into this country, he Avas grantedone hundred and forty acres of land by the town author-ities. He was a thorough agriculturist, and by assiduousdevotion to his occupation and economy in living, heacquired a large landed estate, Avhich on his death Avasdivided according to the terms of his will. He and his Avife are recorded as members of the firstchurch in Salem. He married three times, the lastwhen he Avas seventy-nine years of age. He was bornin 1602 and died in the year 1682. His son Joseph, and three succeeding Josephs, con-tinue the line to Elisha, aa^io Avas born at Middleton,December 6, 1751. He AA^as of the sixth generation.On November 10, 1772, he married Sarah Buxton, and
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: \tteiW., T-i. KICHAKI) HUTCHINSONS PLOW-(p. 2) THE TRIBE OF JESSE. 3 in tlie year 1779 left MidJleton (or Salem) with hiswife and children, and removed to, and settled in thebeautiful valley of the Souhegan River, near the presentsite of Milford, N. H., fifty miles from Boston, the townthen being called Amherst. Here he took up land andbegan to follow on his own account, the occupation solong engaged in and made honorable by his ancestors,farming. In 1782 he was living in the southwestparish and was one of the prime movers in buildingthe first meeting-house. He was one of the nineteenoriginal members of the Congregational Church, whichwas organized November 17, 1788, and was the firstclerk of the church, an office he held for severalyears. He was one of the first to answer his coun-trys call, as a private, in Captain Jeremiah Pagescompany of militia, at Danvers, which engaged theBritish at Lexington, on the memorable 19th of April,1775. Grandfather came to Milford with his wife and

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