Thomas Hutchins

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Thomas Hutchins, born 1650, Virginia, Died 03/10/1732, in Sweet Aire, MD.Two Unknown wives first died on 4/13/1702 was the mother of John Hutchins Sr. Second wife died October 1713.

Between 1680 and 1685 he moved to Maryland and was the progenitor of the large Hutchins family of My Lady's Manor in Baltimore Countyhttp://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM2D3T_My_Ladys_Manor__Monkton_MD. Taken from book: Robert Hutchins of Colonial America : the historical Hutchins family recordsThomas, however, did not live on the Manor which was founded in 1713 or 28 years after he was recorded on the nearby tract of land known as Leaf's Chance. Among his other possessions were a "a Parcel of old paper Books" valued at 7 Shillings and "24 Printed Books" on which the assessors fixed a price of 1 pound and 6 Shillings.The most surprising entry on the inventory was one of "16 Pair of Mens Shoes", valuation 4 pounds. There was also a "parcell of tanned Leather" with another of "curried Leather" the first assessed at L 2-10-0 and the last at L 0-10-0. The immediate assumption is that Thomas Hutchins was a gentleman most prideful of his feet and his footwear but the more sensible interpretation is that he made shoes, was a cobbler, on the side. As a point of considerable interest, the Encyclopedia Britannica says that the manufacture of boots and shoes is one of the high points of industrial economics in Towcester. With this being true, what more natural than that in the 17th and 18th centuries when the making of shoes would have been a handcrafted art and talent handed down from father to son in Towcester and brought from there to the colonies. The will of Thomas Hutchins, written shortly before his death on 10 March 1732, provided for his children (Baltimore County Wills Liber 20, Fol 352) .To his eldest son, John, son of his first wife, he willed Boon's Delight where John had lived from the time of his marriage on 9 May 1726 to Elizabeth Wright. To John he also willed that part of Hutchins Neglect on the northwest side of Primrose Branch (now called Sawmill Branch, it crosses Manor Road and goes into the development known as Green Glade).Sons Nicholas, the youngest, and Thomas, second son ofthe first wife, inherited Hutchins Lott and that part of Hutchins Neglect on the southeast side of Primrose Branch to be equally divided between them, son Nicholas to have first choice. To his three daughters, Elizabeth, Ann and Susanna, all children of his second wife, he left Hutchins Addition.And to the five youngest children he gave proceeds from the sale of Hutchins Beginning, which, resurveyed in 1734 proved to be 100 acres. This tract was soldlater, recorded in 1744, to Thomas Franklin, who, with this brother Benjamin, owned Blenheim and Blenheim Forest, from which Blenheim Road gets its name, adjoining to the south and southwest. The five youngest children each received, in addition, "a Feather Bed and the Furniture thereto belonging to them". Son John had been previously provided for with "Goods and Cattle that he hadth had" probably at the time of his marriage. The daughters were also given calves and horses.Provision was made should it happen that all of his children died leaving no heirs all of his "Lands and Tenements whatever" were to be given for the "the Benefit and Behoofs of the Poor of the Parish wherein my said Lands lyeth". This was the Parish of St. John's of Joppa. Towards the end of his will Thomas Hutchins, something of a domestic tyrant even after death, provided that should his daughter Susanna persist in lawfully marrying or unlawfully cohabiting with a certain William Deason she was to have "one Shilling or twelve Pence lawfull Money of Great Britain and no more". He might well have saved himself the trouble of being high-handed with Susanna for two reasons. First his wishes were promptly set aside when, on 17 May 1732 Thomas, Nicholas, Elizabeth and Ann, the remaining four youngest children, filed a deed, similar to a deed of gift wherein "for diverse good reasons and Considerations" they cut sister Susanna in for her full share of the estate. Further, all of the disturbance over Mr. Deason proved unnecessary when on 9 February 1737, recorded in St. John's register, he married Ann Shepperd, daughter of William and Ann Shepperd, of Shepperd's Range. Her sister, Teresa Shepperd, later, in 1742, married Benjamin Deason, William's brother. The Deasons had both taken leases from Thomas Brerewood on land of My Lady's Manor when it was first settled. Before that the family had lived on Gunpowder Manor in what is now the Long Green Valley. William Deason is noted in the accounts settling the estate of Thomas Hutchins (Accounts - Liber 14 - Fol 327) as a creditor to whom 250 Lbs. Tobacco was owed. Possibly he and old Thomas Hutchins had fallen out over the transaction. Thomas Hutchins, who died in 1732, father of these six children, could read and write fluently, in a day when most settlers could not. His inventory showed him possessed of twenty-four printed books and a parcel of paper books which can safely be presumed to have been journals, records books, account books, and . books of various sorts in which he wrote. One of these was undoubtedly the small parchment handwritten book in which he recorded the birth dates of the children of Thomas Hutchins, 1650-1732, by his two unnamed wives. The surprising and quite strange thing is that Thomas, literate, though he was, taught but one of his six children to read and write - his youngest son Nicholas. All things point to Nicholas being his father's favorite child. Where Thomas was so casual about his wives and their names, he made note of the birth of Nicholas on 25 June 1711 at 10 o'clock a.m. He gave Nicholas the right of choice in the dividing of theland with his brother, a courtesy usually extended the older child, and to him he gave the small book recording the date of his children's births and his wives' deaths. When the two brothers, Nicholas and Thomas, and the two sisters, Elizabeth and Ann, signed the deed of gift restoring to Susanna her share of their father's estate, only Nicholas signed his name. The others had been taught to inscribe the initial of their first name and those initials they used as their marks instead of making crosses. The date of arrival of Thomas Hutchins and his brother

William in Baltimore County, Maryland, can be fixed before 1685 when Thomas leased from the Lord Proprietor with William Lenox and Edward Solby a tract of 375 acres called Leaf's Chance south of the present villageof Kingsville (Survey #10, Rent Rolls of Maryland).http://www.gkca.info/historic/index.htmlThe original survey of Leaf's Chance was made in 1679 for Francis Leafe. The tract was conveyed in June 1685 by Leafe to William Ramsey who then reconveyed the land later that year to the trio of Lenox, Solby and Hutchins. Thomas received as his portion, at a yearly rent of 15 Shillings, 100 acres named Boon's Delight on which he lived (Maryland Historical Magazine, v. XX, p. 278-279). Thomas's brother William also acquired in 1685 part of the nearby lands known as Constant Friendship. The first wife of Thomas Hutchins, name unknown, died 13 April 17 04, after the birth of two sons - John, born 29 October 1698, and Thomas, born 8 August 1702. At this time they were still living on Boon's Delight. These dates came from the small parchment book in which Thomas Hutchins kept family records owned generations later by Catharine Hope Hutchins Hinton, daughter of Thomas Ayres Hutchins, of St. Louis. Three months later, on 21 July 1704, Thomas remarried. He made careful note of the date in his small record book but again carelessly omitted the bride's name as he had previously omitted his first wife's name. This second wife died 22 October 1713, after bearing three daughters - Elizabeth born 2 9 June 17 06, Ann born 13 January 1708, and Susannah born 24 May 1713 - andone son Nicholas born 25 June 1711. At the time of Thomas Hutchins' second marriage he and his family moved westward in Baltimore County, still, however, holding Boon's Delight, into what on very early maps was called the Great North Woods, between Chesapeake Bay and the wide sweep to the west then known as The Barrens.

The Quaker religlion was started in England in 1647 and was first came to Virginia in 1655. Nicholas Hutchins Thomas' brother was a Quaker but I have not found information that Thomas was a Quaker but a member of Church of England.

The church on My Lady's Manor was the Chapel of Ease, of the Church of England. This was closed during the Revolutionary War and later was St. James Church. Family records of Thomas and William Hutchins are in this church and in St. John's of Joppa.

St. James's Church

Parents: William Hutchins, Sarah Elizabeth Greene. Wives:Elizabeth Boon, Susanna Dorsey. Children: Thomas Hutchins, John Hutchins, Nicholas Hutchins, Ann Hutchins, & Elizabeth Hutchins.

GEDCOM Note

Category: Baltimore County, Province of Maryland

Biography

MarylandAccording to Maryland patent records, Thomas Hutchins was living in Maryland by 1671 when he applied for a warrant to survey land.<ref>Gibb, Dr. Carson. “The New Early Settlers of Maryland” [earlysettlers.msa.maryland.gov]</ref> He is listed as a taxable living on the north side of the Gunpowder River in Baltimore County by 1702.<ref name=Barnes> Barnes, Robert W. “Baltimore County Families, 1659-1759” Baltimore, MD: Clearfield 1989</ref>
In 1714 Thomas purchased a 200 acre tract of land called Betty's Inheritance from James Richardson. The tract bordered Richardson's land called Richardson's Outlet and the deed calls Thomas an inn holder.<ref>Baltimore County Deeds Liber TR A folio 336</ref> Besides purchasing land, Thomas also used the Maryland Patent process to claim several tracts in Baltimore County:
:1713 - Beginning for 70 acres
:1725 - Hutchins Lott for 300 acres
:1726 - Hutchins's Addition 300 acres

Marriage & Family

Thomas Hutchins was married to a woman named Susanna who was the widow of Thomas Richardson. Thomas and Susanna were the parents of:

1. John b. abt. 1714
2. Thomas b. abt. 1716
3. Nicholas b. abt. 1718
4. Elizabeth b. abt 1720
5. Anne b. abt. 1722
6. Susanna b. abt. 1724 <ref name=Barnes/>

Death===Thomas Hutchins signed his will on 1 MAR 1731/32. An abstract of will follows:*to eldest son John and heirs, Boon’s Delight, being part of Leaf’s Chance in fork of Gunpowder R. Falls; part of Hutchin’s Neglect on west side of Primrose Branch and all the goods & cattle that he has from me & now in his possession.*to my son Thomas Hutchins & my son Nicholas Hutchins all that tract called Hutchins Lott & all the tract on the southeast side of Primrose Branch being part of Hutchins Neglect to be equally divided, Nicholas to have first choice.*to my daughters Elizabeth Hutchins, Ann Hutchins & Susan Hutchins all that tract called Hutchins Addition to be equally divided, and the eldest to have first choice.*to every one of my five youngest children viz: Thomas, Nicholas, Elizabeth, Ann & Susanna a feather bed & furniture

• to my daughter Elizabeth her 2 horses & 1 steer yearling.
• to my daughter Ann 1 heifer & 2 mares
• to my daughter Susanna 1 horse *all my other goods & estate to my five youngest children to be equally divided*my 70 acres called Beginning lying in back Gunpowder to be sold & the profits to be equally divided among my 5 youngest.*if any of my sons died without lawful heirs, his part of land to be equally divided among the surviving sons.*if any of my 3 daughters die without lawful issue, their land to fall to my son Nicholas.*if none of my children die & leave no heirs I give all my lands for the use and benefit of the poor of the parish wherein I now lie.*if my youngest daughter Susan Hutchins should at any time during her natural life by either lawfully married or unlawfully cohabit with a certain William Deson, I will her one shilling or 12 pence and the part of the above land given to her be equally divided between her two eldest sisters.*I appoint my son Thomas Hutchins & my son Nicholas Hutchins to be my joint executors. I approve Jno. Elliott & Thomas Gittings to be the appraisers & dividers of my estate.Signed & sealed by Thomas Hutchins with a signature. Probated 4 APR 1732. <ref>Prerogative Court Wills Liber 20 folio 352 [https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/stagser/s500/s538/000000/0000...]</ref>

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