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(II) William (2), son of William (1) Av- erill, was born about 1630, in England or Ips- wich. He settled in Topsfield, Massachusetts, about 1662, and from that time until 1689 was a prominent citizen there. He was a car- penter as well as a farmer. His sons John, Nathaniel, Job and Ebenezer were also useful and prominent citizens of Topsfield from about 1692 to 1727. Children: I. William. 2. John. 3. Nathaniel, had sons Nathaniel, Jacob, Moses and Jeremiah. 4. Job, born January 1, 1666-67, mentioned below. 5. Han- nah, December 18, 1667. 6. Ebenezer, Octo- ber 14, 1669. 7. Thomas, December 9, 1672. 8. Abigail, March 8, 1673-74. 9. Paul, June 21, 1677. 10. Isaac, November 10, 1680. II. Mary.
(III) Job, son of William (2) Averill, was born in Topsfield, January 1, 1666-67, mir- ried, February 1, 1702-03, Susanna Brown. Children, born at Topsfield: 1. Job, August II, 1707. 2. Judith, May 1, 1710. 3. Israel, April 21, 1713. 4. Keziah, May 6, 1715. 5. Samuel, June 7, 1720. 6. Susanna, baptized September, 1722. 7. Stephen. 8. Joseph, men- tioned below.
(IV) Joseph. son of Job Averill, was born at Topsfield. The history of Kennebunkport is authority for the statement that Job and Samuel, who were born as stated in Topsfield, came with their brothers Stephen and Joseph to Kennebunkport ( Arundel) soon after the resettlement of 1714. They came from Kittery, but as there is no trace of them on the Kittery records, we believe that they must have been from Topsfield shortly before settling in Kenne- bunkport. Of these brothers, Job left no chil- dren ; Samuel was cast away on Mount Desert Island and drowned in 1747: married Ruth Watson; children : Ruth, married James Huff ; Eunice, married Jesse Dorman ; Mary, married Joseph Bickford ; Samuel left no sons. Stephen seems to have left no sons ; children : Phebe, married Nicholas Weeks; Rebecca ; Sarah, married Maddox ; Samuel, died
young; Son died. Joseph Averill married Jane McClellan ; seven of their children died of throat distemper in 1735. The surviving children were: 1. Joseph, mentioned below. 2. Jane, married Hugh Mcclellan. 3. Mar- garet, married Hodge. 4. Molly, mar- ried Clark.
(V) Joseph (2), son of Joseph ( 1) Averill, was born about 1735-40. He married Jane McLellan. Children, born at Kennebunkport : 1. Shadrach, married Hannah Smith. 2. Sarah. married David Boothby. 3. Joseph, married (first) Mary Stone; ( second) Martha Tyler and (third) Polly Haley. 4. Samuel, lost at sea. 5. Stephen (non. comp.). 6. William, married (first) Susan Boothby ; (sec- ond) Mary Weeks. 7. Hannah, married Eb- enezer Huff. 8. John, married Catherine Kimball.
(VI) Moses, son or nephew of Joseph (2) Averill, was an early settler at what is now Old Town, Maine. He was the foremost citi- zen of the town of Orono, being for many years town clerk and sole selectman. He was with Richard Winslow on the first board of select- men in 1806 and served as selectman for six- teen years or more afterward. He was town clerk for ten years. He was one of the first justices of the peace of that section. He came to the Upper Stillwater with his father in 1817, and took a lot under the betterment act and built a house which was owned later by General Joseph Treat. The lot was known as Settlers Lot No. 26. He built a sawmill on the outside of the Dry Way on the head of the island, and though it was abandoned as early as 1825, the site of the structure is still to be found by the old mudsills, etc. He married Among his children was Moses, men- tioned below.
(VII) Moses (2), son of Moses (1) Aver- ill, was born October 31, 1776, in Old Town, Maine, died January 3, 1862. He settled in Stillwater. He married (first) Margaret Lunt, May 18, 1804; she was born March 19, 1786, died December 28, 1834. Married ( sec- ond) Mary Trask, October 25, 1842 ; she was born August 17, 1815, died January 28, 1859. Married (third) Averill. Children of first wife. I. Robert, born August 7, 1805. 2. Harriet, December 12, 1806. 3. Seth, No- vember 14, 1808. 4. Abigail, April 12, 1811. 5. Hannah, March 3, 1813. 6. William, No- vember 5, 1814. 7. Maria, November 19, 1818. 8. Luther H., November 1, 1822. 9. Moses L., July 31, 1825.
(VIII) Moses L., son of Moses (2) Av- erill, was born in Stillwater, July 31, 1825,
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died in February, 1894, in Old Town. He was educated in the district schools. In his youth he learned the art of photography and for some years followed that business. For several years he was station agent at Monson Station for the Bangor & Piscataquis Railroad Company. He finally took up lumber and sur- veying for his profession and followed it dur- ing the remainder of his life. In politics he was a Republican. He married Albra E. Gatchell, born in Old Town in 1841, now liv- ing ( 1908) in Old Town, daughter of David Gatchell. Children: I. Albra E., born 1861. 2. Frank L., April 16, 1865, mentioned below. 3. Gertrude E., March 7, 1867, in Old Town, educated in the common and Old Town high schools. She was for sixteen years teacher in the Old Town schools and is now assistant postmaster of Old Town, Maine.
(IX) Frank Lincoln, son of Moses L. Av- erill, was born in Old Town, Maine, April 16, 1865, and was educated there in the public schools. He chose a commercial life and be- gan as clerk in a grocery store in his native town. He was then for fifteen years a sales- man in a retail shoe store of Old Town. He became interested in politics when a young man and has been active and prominent in the councils of the Republican party to the present time. He has been chosen delegate to various nominating conventions of his party and served on various committees. He was city treasurer for four years, and was appointed to his present position as postmaster of the city of Old Town in 1903, reappointed in 1907. Mr. Averill is unmarried.
AVERILL James Averill married Dor- othy Eastman. They had sev- eral children, among whom were two sons, John and Samuel. Samuel married Hannah Winn and had Sarah, who married Ivory Winn, of Methuen, Massachu- setts ; Philander, of Lawrence, Massachusetts ; and Lucy, who married - Taylor, of Me- thuen.
(II) John, eldest son of James and Dor- othy (Eastman) Averill, was a blacksmith. He owned land in York. Maine. He married Mary, daughter of George and Polly Moulton, of Wells, Maine, who was born May 18, 1810. The Moultons were from Ormsley county, Norfolk, England. - Her brother, William Moulton, was a ship-builder of that town, and another brother, Justus, who died at Vineland, New Jersey, was evidently prosperous, as he left a legacy to the church of $40,000. Mrs. Averill had also a sister Maria, who married
a Freeman of Cape Neddick, Maine. The children of John and Mary were: John ; Wil- son Eastman ; Ann, married - Jenkins, and died in Scotland, Maine; Justus; Abbie, married Norton; Almira, married
Laury, and died in Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Benjamin ; Joseph B.
(III) Joseph B., youngest son of John and Mary (Moulton) Averill, was born at Cape Neddick, Maine, October, 1841. He followed the business of his father, that of blacksmith. He married, 1871-72, Luella Frances, daugh- ter of Tracy P. and Ellen ( Wallingford) Wales, of Salem and Beverly, Massachusetts, who was born 1852-53. Her father was a skilled machinist and in later years he followed the sea in some such capacity. When about fifty years of age he died of yellow fever at Liverpool, England. His wife, Ellen, was the daughter of Joshua Wallingford, of Lebanon, Maine, who had several sons and daughters residing there: Lewis, John, Hiram, Daniel, Salome, Mary, Hannah and Sarah Walling- ford. The children of Joseph B. and Luella F. Averill were : Frederic Benjamin, born May 31, 1872, and Everett John, April 5, 1874.
(IV) Frederic Benjamin, eldest son of Jo- seph B. and Luella F. (Wales) Averill, was born at Somersworth, New Hampshire, May 31, 1872. His early education was commenced at the public schools of Berwick, Maine, and Dover, New Hampshire, and later he attended the New Hampshire Conference Seminary at Tilton, New Hampshire, and Maine Wesleyan Seminary, Kent's Hill, Maine. In 1893 he engaged in the printing business and in 1898 purchased the business of James H. Goodall ; in May, 1899, he purchased the Sanford Tribune of George W. Huff, consolidating all three and extending to a large job-printing and book business. Mr. Averill in politics is a Republican and has served as town auditor for two years. He is a member of the Sanford Club and Sanford Social Club, and is also a member of the following secret societies : Pre- ble Lodge, No. 143, Ancient Free and Ac- cepted Masons, of Sanford, Maine; White Rose Royal Arch Chapter, Sanford, Maine; Maine Council of Saco, Maine; St. Amand Commandery, Knights Templar, of Kenne- bunk, Maine; Kora Temple, Mystic Shrine, of Lewiston, Maine; Chapter No. 138, Order Eastern Star, Sanford, Maine; Friendship Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Springvale, Maine; Moreh Encampment, No. 57, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Riv- erside Lodge, No. 12, Knights of Pythias, Sanford; Sagamore Tribe, No. 33. Indepen-
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dent Order of Red Men, Sanford; Harmony Council, Junior Order United American Me- chanics, Sanford (he was also state treasurer of this organization ) ; American Royal Circle, Augusta, of which he is a state trustec. Mr. Averill married ( first), September 19, 1894, at Sanford, Ida May Lord, born in North Shapleigh, Maine, July 4, 1878, died at San- ford, May 9, 1903. He married (second), De- cember 26. 1904, Lilla Frances, daughter of Lewis Franklin and Lucy Merrow (Hull) Hayden, who was born in River Falls, Wis- consin, July 7, 1885. Her father served as drummer-boy in the civil war ; he was a mer- chant and died at Appleton, Wisconsin, July 27, 1895 ; he was born in Monroe, Wisconsin, but his wife, Lucy Merrow (Hull) ' Hayden, was a native of Shapleigh, Maine. The two children of Frederic B. and Lilla F. Averill are: Ida Frances, born April 16, 1906, and Olive Dorothy, July 31, 1907.
WHITE Deacon William White, immi- grant ancestor, was born in Eng- land in 1687. His father was a glover, and removed from England to Lon- donderry, Ireland, when William was an in- fant. He was wounded in the siege of that city in 1668-69. William White came early to Londonderry, New Hampshire, and settled on the Double Range. In 1733 he removed to Chester, and settled on houselot No. 126, where Joseph Webster resided. He was a signer of the Presbyterian Protest, March 28, 1735. He was a linen weaver by trade. His first wife died in Ireland, and he married (second) Jane, daughter of Robert Graham. Children of first wife: I. Henry, resided in Litchfield, New Hampshire; was a mariner and died at Halifax in 1755. 2. James, a mariner ; unmarried. 3. Jane, married Patrick White and resided at Peterborough. Children of second wife: 4. Robert, resided at Goffs- town and New Boston. 5. David, married (first) Mary, daughter of Robert Gordon ; (second) Mary, daughter of Patrick Melvin; resided in lot 71, "second P. 2nd. D."; died 1776; widow married Stephen Merrill and died July, 1833. 6. Thomas (twin), born March 4, 1740, in Chester, died unmarried. 7. William (twin), mentioned below.
(II) Colonel William (2), son of Deacon William (I) White, was born in Chester, March 4, 1740-41, died November 9, 1829. He resided on the homestead in Chester. He was in the revolution, serving as major in 1775; lieutenant-colonel in 1784; muster master in 1777-78. He was justice of the peace in 1791
and senator for District 3 in 1806-07-08. He married Mary, daughter of Robert Mills, Jan- uary 24, 1764. She died December 24, 1780, aged forty-three years, and he married (sec- ond), September 17, 1782, Elizabeth Mitchell, who died April 3, 1832, aged seventy-one years. Children of first wife: I. Jane. 2. Jonathan. , 3. Susannah, born 1768, married, in 1790, Jonathan Quimby. 4. Robert, born 1770, mentioned below. 5. Mary. 6. Eliza- beth. 7. Ann. Children of second wife: 8. William, born 1783, graduate of Dartmouth College in 1806; lawyer by profession. 9. Jonathan, born 1785. 10. Thomas, died un- married in 1830. II. Sarah, born June, 1790, died 1825. 12. James, born September 2, 1792, graduate of Dartmouth; lawyer. All the preceding children but Sarah went to Maine. 13. David M., born 1795, died in Chester. 14. Olive, born 1798, died July 22, 1826. 15. Lavinia, born 1800, died unmar- ried July 10, 1836. 16. Benjamin, born Au- gust 24, 1807, resided in Ballard Vale, Mas- sachusetts.
(III) Robert, son of Colonel William (2) White, was born in Chester in 1770 and died in Belfast, Maine, July 30, 1840. He removed to Belfast in 1797 and bought a farm, on which there was a log house, in which he lived. In 1803 he erected a two-story house, which is still standing. At one time all his seven children resided with their families on the same street. He was a farmer. He mar- ried Susanna Patterson, born July 25, 1781, died April 11, 1867, daughter of James Pat- terson, of Belfast, Maine. Children: I. Hon. James P., born in the log house in Belfast. 2. Starritt, died young. 3. William Bloom- field. 4. Robert Jr., mentioned below. 5. John W. 6. George F. 7. Maria. 8. Ann. 9. Susan.
(IV) Robert (2), son of Robert (I) White, was born in Belfast, Maine, in 1807, died December 31, 1866. He received his education in the public schools of his native town. He became a trader and owned a gen- eral store at Belfast. He extended his busi- ness to ship-building in partnership with his brothers and Mr. Conner, under the firm name of White, Conner & Company. After the death of Mr. Conner the name became White, McGilvrey & Company. Mr. White became a man of large means and much in- fluence in the community. He was one of the founders of the Republican Journal of Belfast. He was a Democrat in politics and prominent in public life as well as in business circles. He was register of deeds from 1847
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to 1857 and county treasurer at the same time. He was a member of Waldo Lodge, Odd Fel- lows, Belfast. He married (first) Lois Loth- rop, of Searsmont, born 1810, died 1842. He married (second) Eliza Simonton, born in Camden, Maine, daughter of William and Elizabeth Simonton. Children of first wife : I. Augustus, unmarried. 2. Ansel L., born June 26, 1835, mentioned below. Children of second wife: 3. R. Frank, married Lizzie Sheldon; (second) Kate Armstrong; resides in Los Angeles, California ; merchant. 4. Frances E. (Mrs. Henry Norrington), of Bay City, Michigan. 5. Ellen (Mrs. John Mul- holland), Bay City, Michigan. 6. Henry P., married Grace A. Gould; Farmington, Maine ; merchant.
(V) Major Ansel Lothrop, son of Robert (2) White, was born in Belfast, Maine, June 26, 1835. He attended the public schools in his native town, and began his business career there as clerk in the general store of Daniel Faunce, where he worked four years, then went to Boston as clerk in a wholesale hard- ware store for six years. He returned to Bel- fast to enlist in the civil war and was mustered in as private in Company D, of the Nineteenth Maine Regiment, August 25, 1862; he was mustered out May 3, 1865. He rose through the various grades; commissioned officer to that of second lieutenant of Company D, No- vember 2, 1862; first lieutenant Company B, January 22, 1864; captain Company F, Octo- ber 22, 1864; brevetted major United States Volunteers, March 13. 1865, "for gallant and meritorious services." Served as aide to General Sully and other commanders. Ord- nance officer Second Division, Second Corps (Hancocks). From August, 1862, he was in all the important battles of the Army of the Potomac, in which the Nineteenth bore a gal- lant part, including Fredericksburg, Chancel- lorsville, Gettysburg, where he was injured by his horse falling on him, killed by a shot, the Wilderness, Petersburg, Appomattox, Lee's surrender, and the Grand Review at Washington. After the war Major White en- gaged in the dry goods business in New York City from 1866 to 1873. He bought an in- terest in a dry goods store in Belfast, Maine, in 1873, and continued it four years. In 1877 he again returned to New York and embarked in the ship-chandlery business, continuing with great success until he retired in 1902 from all active business. He spent a year in Cal- ifornia for his health, and since then has di- vided his time between Belfast and New York. He is a member of the Loyal Legion, Com-
mandery of New York, and of the Association of the Army of the Potomac.
He married, November 24, 1869, Mary Al- den, daughter of Hiram O. and Emily (Bing- ham) Alden, of Belfast. Her father was born in Claremont, New Hampshire, in 1800, died in Belfast, 1882, a lawyer by profession, part- ner of Governor Crosby, son of Joseph Alden, a native of New Hampshire. Emily Bingham was born in Claremont, 1804, and died in Bel- fast, 1871. Children of Joseph and Lucy ( Warner ) Alden : Hiram O., mentioned above ; Emily, Esther, Joseph, Lucy, Louisa, Caro- line, James. The Aldens were descendants of John and Priscilla Alden who came in the "Mayflower" in 1620. Child of Ansel L. and Mary ( Alden) White: Emily Bingham, born at Belfast, 1872, died in New York City in 1880.
The White family of whom this
WHITE sketch is written are of French ancestry. The pioneer anglicized. his name after coming to America.
(I) Charles White was born in France. about 1790. He settled in Canada. Children : Joseph, Levi, Mary, Benjamin, Peter, men- tioned below.
(II) Peter, son of Charles White, born in: Canada in 1819, died in Millbury, August II, 1882. He removed to Millbury from his. Canadian home when a young man. He was. a tanner and stone mason by trade. He mar- ried, about 1839, Victoria Tebo, daughter of Francis Tebo, of St. Hyacinthe, Canada. Children : David, Nelson, Oliver, born March 27, 1847: Joseph, Peter, Mary, born April 27, 1849; Frank L., born October, 1852, men- tioned below ; Zebedee, Edward, James, Celia,. Alfred Nathan, Ellen, William.
(III) Frank Levi, son of Peter White, was. born in Millbury, Massachusetts, October 25, 1852. He attended the public schools of Mill- bury, and though he began to work in the mills at an early age he continued his studies at night and acquired an excellent rudimentary education. He is largely self-educated, and the habits of study and industry formed in his youth in large measure account for his. success and for his usefulness in his present position. He came to Saco, Maine, from Mill- bury, in July, 1876, and was employed in the York mills of Saco and became an expert dyer. In 1892 he took charge of the dye house of the Otis Company at Three Rivers, Palmer, Massachusetts. In February, 1896, he returned to Saco and took charge of the dye house of the York Manufacturing Com-
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pany, a position which he still holds, and in which he has achieved a marked success. Mr. White is a Republican in politics. Hle is a member of Saco Lodge of Free Masons and of Unity Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of Saco. He married (first), February 3, 1873, Delia Germaine, who died June 14, 1900, daughter of Frank Germaine, of St. Albans, Vermont. He married (second) September 16, 1901, Mary Louise ( Germaine) Bursaw, daughter of Frank Germaine and sister of his first wife. Children of first wife: I. Mary Louise, born January 13, 1876, married Rev. Herbert A. Barker, of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. 2. Wilfred Henry, born November 13, 1877, re- sides in Charlotte, North Carolina. 3. Charles Edward, born June 19, 1879, now of Atlanta, Georgia. 4. Ida Estelle, born June 21, 1882, a trained nurse, residing in Waltham, Massa- chusetts.
HUTCHINSON This is one of New Eng- land's celebrated, as well as world-wide known families. It produced the great family stock of Hutchinsons known as the "Tribes of Jesse and Asa," whose rare musical talent was for half a century appreciated by lovers of vocal music in nearly all the large towns and cities of this country and in many lands beyond the sea. During the days of the agitation of the anti-slavery question, a large troupe made up entirely from members of the Hutchinson fam- ily accompanied such gifted advocates of abo- lition as Wendell Phillips and Joshua R. Gid- dings throughout the northern states singing anti-slave songs. The moral sentiment they created had a potent effect on the people and doubtless hastened the day of emancipation. Many people of the last generation and some of the present have been thrilled by hearing them sing one of the songs of their own com- position, "The Old Granite State," the echoes of which have been sounded in every state in the Union.
(I) The New England branch of the Hutchinson family had for their common an- cestor Barnard Hutchinson, of Cowlam, Eng- land, who lived in the twelfth century, during the reign of King Edward I. He married a daughter of John Boyville, of England, and they were the parents of three children : John, Robert and Mary.
(II) John, son of Barnard Hutchinson and wife, married Edith Wouldbie, by whom four children were born as follows: James, Bar- bara, Julia and Margaret.
(III) James, son of John and Edith
( Wouldbie ) Hutchinson, married Ursula Gregory and they reared to maturity William, John, Barbara and Eleanor.
(IV) William, eldest child of James and Ursula (Gregory) Hutchinson, married Anna, daughter of William Bennett, of Theckley, and their children were: Anthony, Oliver, Mary and Alice.
(V) Anthony, eldest child of William and Anna (Bennett) Hutchinson, married (first) Judith Crosland; (second) a daughter of Robert Harvie and wife. By this union the following children were born : William, Thom- as, John, Richard, Leonard, Edward, Francis and Andrew.
(VI) Thomas, second son of Anthony Hutchinson and his second wife, married and became the father of three children : William, John and Lawrence.
(VII) Lawrence, youngest child of Thom- as Hutchinson and wife, of Owlthorpe, was living in 1517, when his will was dated. He left five children : Root, Thomas, Agnes, Richard and William.
(VIII) Thomas (2), second son of Law- rence Hutchinson and wife, resided at New- ark, England, and died 1598, leaving children : William, Thomas and Joan.
(IX) Thomas (3), second son of Thomas (2) Hutchinson and wife, was buried at Ar- nold, England, August 17, 1648. The chris- tian name of his wife was Alice, who bore him seven children : John, Isabell, Humphret, Edith, Robert, Richard and Thomas. This brings the genealogical line down to the set- tlement of the family in New England.
(X) Richard, sixth child of Thomas (3) and Alice Hutchinson, of Arnold, England, was born in England, 1602, as is shown by a deposition on file in Essex county, Massachu- setts, at Salem, wherein he stated his age to be at that date fifty-eight years. He emi- grated to America in 1634, with his wife Alice and four children, settling in the village of Salem (Danvers) near Hawthorne Hill. It is believed that he had for a time resided in Salem proper. A record shows that "July 25, 1639, one Dickerson was granted four poles of land neere Richard Hutchinson's house, to make tan pitts and dress goat skinnes and hides." In 1636 Mr. Hutchinson received a grant of land containing sixty acres from the town and soon afterwards twenty acres addi- tional. He was appointed a committee to sur- vey what is now Manchester. April 17, 1637, it was voted that, "if Rich Hucheson shall sett up ploughing within two years, he may have twenty acres more land." This grew
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out of the fact that the colony needed more plow land, and as there were but thirty-seven plows in the settlement, and Hutchinson pos- sessed another, this gift was thought wise. He was a thorough agriculturist, and in time amassed a large landed estate. He was a strict church disciplinarian, and a man of great physical endurance. After the death of his first wife he married, October, 1668, Susannah, widow of Samuel Archard, who died Novem- ber, 1674, after which he married Sarah, widow of James Standish. His third marriage oc- curred when he was about seventy-nine years of age. His will was signed January 19, 1679, and proved September 28, 1682. His widow survived him several years and married for her third husband Thomas Root, of Manches- ter, and was living in. 1683. Richard Hutchin- son, the American progenitor, was the father of six children: Elizabeth, Reuben, Joseph, Abigail, Hannah and John.
(XI) Joseph, third child of Richard and Alice Hutchinson, was born 1633, at North Muskham, England, and lived on the old homestead, acquiring most of the property by gift-deed from his father, May 10, 1666. This included meadow lands, house and barns on the Ipswich river, and three hundred acres at another place which contained a large apple orchard. His homestead, however, was situ- ated adjoining the Salem village meeting- house, which site the Hutchinsons gave to the church. The old church was taken down and moved about 1700, when the land reverted to the family again. This member of the family lived through the memorable witchcraft days at Salem, the climax of which was reached in 1692. Like many another strong-minded man of his times, Mr. Hutchinson was among those who entered complaint against Tituba, an In- dian woman living in the family of Rev. Sam- uel Parris; Sarah, wife of William Good, and Sarah, wife of Alexander Osborne. In 1658 Mr. Hutchinson was chosen constable and tax- collector, and his name appears on the jury list in 1679. He was frequently chosen over- seer, administrator, deed witness, and had business connected with the making of wills. He married (first) a daughter of John Ged- ney; (second), February 28, 1677, Lydia, daughter of Anthony and Elizabeth Buxton. She was baptized April 27, 1689. Mr. Hutch- inson was the father of eleven children, as follows: By the first marriage: Abigail, Berthia (died single), Joseph, Benjamin. By the second marriage: Lydia B., Abigail, Rich- ard, Samuel, Ambrose, Lydia and Robert.
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