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Charles Hutchings[1, 2, 3, 4]

Male 1742 - 1835  (92 years)


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  • Name Charles Hutchings 
    Birth 10 Oct 1742  York, York, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 5, 6, 7] 
    Gender Male 
    Occupation 1768  Penobscot, Lincoln, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    farmer
    Death 3 Jun 1835  Penobscot, Hancock, Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 6, 7, 8] 
    • Headstone has 1834, but it is not an original stone. Penobscot VRs have 3 Jun 1834.
    Burial Penobscot, Hancock, Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    Cemetery:
    Charles Hutchings Cemetery
    Person ID I1658  Duane's Ancestors
    Last Modified 9 May 2017 

    Father Jonathan Hutchings,   b. Abt 1684, Kittery, York, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1743, York, York, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 60 years) 
    Mother Judith Weeks,   b. 3 Jun 1696, Kittery, York, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1743 (Age 46 years) 
    Marriage 1720  Portsmouth, New Hampshire, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [9, 10, 11, 12, 13] 
    Family ID F2352  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Mary Perkins,   b. 3 Apr 1745, York, York, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 May 1797, Penobscot, Hancock, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 52 years)  [14, 15] 
    Marriage 8 Feb 1764  York, York, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 6, 16] 
    Children 
    +1. Capt. William Hutchings, Sr.,   b. 6 Oct 1764, York, York, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 May 1866, Penobscot, Hancock, Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 101 years)
     2. Abigail Hutchings,   b. 19 Apr 1766, York, York, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location
    +3. Joanna Hutchings,   b. 29 Feb 1768, York, York, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Jul 1820 (Age 52 years)
    +4. Mary Hutchings,   b. 14 Oct 1770, Penobscot, Lincoln, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Jan 1835, Penobscot, Hancock, Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 64 years)
    +5. Judith Hutchings,   b. 9 Nov 1772, Penobscot, Lincoln, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Apr 1862, Penobscot, Hancock, Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 89 years)
     6. Charles Hutchings, Jr.,   b. 22 Jun 1774, Penobscot, Lincoln, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Jul 1784, Penobscot, Lincoln, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 10 years)
    +7. Deborah Hutchings,   b. 28 Jul 1776, Penobscot, Lincoln, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Dec 1865, Penobscot, Hancock, Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 89 years)
     8. Daniel Hutchings,   b. 19 Jun 1778, Penobscot, Lincoln, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Apr 1863, Penobscot, Hancock, Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 84 years)
     9. Temperance Hutchings,   b. 2 Jul 1780, Newcastle, Lincoln, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location
    +10. James Hutchings,   b. 22 Aug 1782, Penobscot, Lincoln, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Dec 1860, Penobscot, Hancock, Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years)
    +11. Sarah Hutchins,   b. 16 Mar 1785, Penobscot, Lincoln, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Dec 1866, Penobscot, Hancock, Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years)
    +12. Capt. Ebenezer O. Hutchings,   b. 12 Aug 1787, Penobscot, Lincoln, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Apr 1881 (Age 93 years)
     13. Samuel Hutchings,   b. 18 Aug 1792, Penobscot, Hancock, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Aug 1802, Penobscot, Hancock, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 9 years)
    Family ID F94  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 4 Apr 2020 

    Family 2 Nellie Bowler,   b. 10 Jul 1754, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Dec 1838, Penobscot, Hancock, Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 84 years)  [6] 
    Marriage 10 Nov 1797  Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5, 6] 
    Family ID F2770  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 4 Apr 2020 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 10 Oct 1742 - York, York, Massachusetts Bay, British America Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 8 Feb 1764 - York, York, Massachusetts Bay, British America Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - farmer - 1768 - Penobscot, Lincoln, Massachusetts Bay, British America Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 10 Nov 1797 - Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 3 Jun 1835 - Penobscot, Hancock, Maine, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - Cemetery:
    Charles Hutchings Cemetery - - Penobscot, Hancock, Maine, United States    		 Link to Google Earth
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    Pin Legend  : Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  • Notes 

    • Charles and his family came to Penobscot, Maine in a schooner in 1768, clearing a farm and residing on Wardwell Point on the Bagaduce estuary in the town of Penobscot. When the American forces were defeated at Castine in 1779, Charles went to Damariscotta to escape capture. He served in the French and Indian War of 1759 according to George A. Wheeler's "History of Castine" (Bangor, Maine: Burr & Robinson, 1875, p. 362-also see pp. 202-03). "Jacob Perkins and his decendants," pp.2, 3, 11 includes a report that Charles and several Perkins men lay in ambush on Charles' property and fired on a British guard boat, 1779, during the siege of the Bagaduce (Castine); Charles then walked with his wife and eight children through the wilderness to Damariscotta, returning to Penobscot in 1783. Charles lost his parents early in childhood, and was brought up by his sister Edith (who married Averill/Avery, the first settler in Penobscot on the NW shore of Northern Bay near Jacob Perkins). Charles was part of the expedition to Louisburg, Nova Scotia when age 16, and was shipwrecked on the "Londoner" off Cape Ann while returning to Boston. Afterwards he resided at Albany, New York where he was noted for his diminutive size and great strength. He then returned to York, Maine where he married Mary Perkins (1764) and moved to Penobscot (1768) with her and their three children.

      CHARLES HUTCHINGS
      A soldier in the French and Indian Wars, a settler in Penobscot, where he lived on the west side of the Bagaduce River. He married (1), int. Feb. 8, 1764, Mary Perkins, born Apr. 3, 1745, daughter of Joseph and Abigail (Wardwell) Perkins; died May 6, 1797, married (2) Nov. 10, 1797, Mrs. Nellie Bowles of Marblehead, Mass., born July 10, 1754; died Dec. 5, 1838.

      The Charles Hutchings family lived in the Joseph Banks house in York on Scituate Men's Row before moving to Penobscot in 1768. The house was built by Joseph Banks in 1696 on land that was part of his father's farm. It is in fine condition at the present time (1982). Charles cleared a farm in Penobscot near the Bagaduce River and made his home there the rest of his life, except for the four years that he lived in Newcastle, Maine.

      Charles was one of the first settlers of Plantation No. 3, now known as the town of Penobscot. His son William, a veteran of the Revolutionary War, lived to be 101 years old.

      Charles enlisted in the army raised under Lord Louden of Halifax in 1758, for the reduction of Louisburg, Cape Breton. After the failure of this expedition he boarded a schooner and sailed for Boston. The ship encountered a terrific hurricane off Cape Ann and was wrecked on "Londoner Ledge." Charles escaped with a few others in a lifeboat and came ashore at Gloucester, Mass. He walked from there to Boston. He was afterward at Albany, New York, where he was noted for his diminutive size and great strength. He was honorably discharged at the close of the war, and returned to York, where he soon after married Mary Perkins.

      Woodsmen and trappers brought to York encouraging stories of the great fertility of the region on Penobscot Bay. In 1768 the Hutchings family packed their few belongings and set sail in a schooner for Penobscot. Arriving there Charles took up a farm of more than one hundred acres and with the help of his wife he built a sturdy log cabin.

      Charles and his wife accepted all the bitter hardships of the period with cheerful fortitude. When he built the cellar wall for his house, he carried the stones in his arms, a distance of nearly a quarter of a mile, from the shore of the Bagaduce River. He obtained glass, nails and hinges by cutting 40 cord of wood, which he sold in Castine for fifty cents a cord.

      When the British took over Castine in June,1779, Charles was one of the first Patriots to join the land forces under General Wadsworth. Most of the time he was stationed at a place then known as Hainey's Point in Brooksville, across the bay from Castine. During the siege of Bagaduce (Castine) in 1779, Charles Hutchings, with Daniel, Isaac and Jacob Perkins, lay in ambush on Hainey's Point, and fired into an English guard boat as it approached. They were informed against by a Tory, and Charles was obliged to take his family, and flee for his life. Charles Hutchings' second shot had apparently killed an English soldier. He took a canoe at West Penobscot, and with his wife and eight children, crossed the Penobscot River to Fort Pownal, and walked through the wilderness to Damariscotta, where he lived until the peace Df 1783. Two of the children were so small they had to be carried all the way. Their only cooking utensil was a camp kettle holding about two gallons, in which Mary stewed birds and rabbits, which Charles brought down with his flintlock. They found living quarters at a trading post in what is now Newcastle and lived there until the end of the war in 1783.

      The Hutchings family returned to Penobscot to find their buildings burned and their fences destroyed. He rebuilt his house on the same foundation and lived there the rest of his life. He died June 3, 1835 at the age of 92. At the time of his death he had 350 descendants Living; 10 children, 88 grandchildren, 235 great grandchildren, and 17 great-great grandchildren.

  • Sources 
    1.  1.  [S3] Hugh Hutchins of Old England, 691, 00288.

    2.  2.  [S49] History of Castine, Penobscot and Brooksville, ME, 202, 00269.

    3.  3.  [S85] Vital Records of Penobscot, ME, 1700-1890, DEATHS, p. 4, 00601.

    4.  4.  [S289] Vital Records of Marblehead, MA, Vol. 2, 48., 00594.

    5.  5.  [S85] Vital Records of Penobscot, ME, 1700-1890, BIRTHS, p. 23, 00601.

    6.  6.  [S3] Hugh Hutchins of Old England, 698, 00288.

    7.  7.  [S1122] Find A Grave, Memorial# 69567609, 00974.

    8.  8.  [S49] History of Castine, Penobscot and Brooksville, ME, 203, 00269.

    9.  9.  [S3] Hugh Hutchins of Old England, 690, 00288.

    10.  10.  [S991] Old Kittery and Her Families, 543, 00405.

    11.  11.  [S988] Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, 366, 00218.

    12.  12.  [S52] Maine Families in 1790, Vol. 5, 162, 00343.

    13.  13.  [S867] TAG, 27:122, 00863.

    14.  14.  [S1010] US ME Death Records, 1617-1922, Hancock:1866:h:24, 00943.

    15.  15.  [S716] Vital Statistics of Penobscot, ME, 192, 00716.

    16.  16.  [S45] Perkins, Formerly of Hillmorton, 151, 00424.