Richard Hutchinson

  General Notes:

[Source: The Hutchinson Family: or the Descendants of Barnard Hutchinson, of Cowlam, England, p. 6-7]

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ²⁹⁴
Richard Hutchinson, fourth son and sixth child of Thomas and Alice Hutchinson, was the pioneer of the family in America. He was born in 1602, as indicated by his deposition on file in Salem, Massachusetts. emigrated to America in 1634 with his wife Alice and four children, and settled in Salem village, now Danvers, in the vicinity of Whipple and Haythorn's Hill.

There is some evidence in the town records of Salem that he may have originally settled in the old town. In 1636 he received a grant of sixty acres of land from the town, and on April 3, following he received twenty acres more. In the same year he was appointed on a committee to survey what is now Manchester and Mackerel Cove.

On April 17, 1647, it was voted "that in case Ric'd Huchenson should sett up plowing within 2 years he may haue 20 acres more to bee added to his pportion." It seems that there was a great scarcity of plows, there being only thirty-seven in all the settlements.

In 1648 Richard Hutchinson bought at Salem village, of Elias Stileman, his farm of one hundred end fifty acres, the consideration being fifteen pounds. The records do not show him to have been much in official station, but he was undoubtedly a man of much force of character and great physical endurance.

Richard was a thorough agriculturist and amassed a large estate. Most of this he divided among his children before the close of his life. He and his wife were members of the First Church of Salem as early as 1636, and he was a strict disciplinarian in religious affairs. His will was signed 19 Jan 1769, and proved 22 Sep 1682, which would indicate that his death occurred in the early part of the latter year.

~ The Descendants of Barnard Hutchinson, of Cowlam, England, pp. 6-8

• Web Reference: Richard Hutchinson of Salem, Massachusetts.

Richard married Alice Bosworth, daughter of Joseph Bosworth and Unknown, on 7 Dec 1627 in Corgrave, Nottingham, England ²⁹⁴.^,294a (Alice Bosworth was born in 1605 in Nottinghamshire, England and died about 1668 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, Bristish American Colonies.)