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LATIVE SERVICE: Lower House, Annapolis, 1708A
(election voided), 1708B-1711 (dismissed from the
2nd session for failure to meet the residency re-
quirement of three years in the colony; reelected
late in the 2nd session; Laws 2). LOCAL OFFICES:
alderman, Annapolis, 1708; St. Anne's Parish Ves-
try, Anne Arundel County, 1716-1717. WEALTH
DURING LIFETIME. LAND AT FIRST ELECTION:
480 acres by 1712, which he sold in 1716. WEALTH
AT DEATH. DIED: by March 1728/29; size of estate
unknown.
HUTCHINS, CHARLES (?-1700). BORN: in En-
gland. IMMIGRATED: in 1672 as a free adult. RE-
SIDED: in Dorchester County. MARRIED first, Do-
rothy. MARRIED second, Anne. CHILDREN. SON:
(first name unknown), left in England. DAUGHTER:
Anne, who married John Rider, of England. PRI-
VATE CAREER. EDUCATION: literate. RELIGIOUS
AFFILIATION: Anglican. SOCIAL STATUS AND AC-
TIVITIES: estranged from first wife and son who
did not accompany him to Maryland, he remar-
ried without obtaining a divorce. His first wife
later sued him for one-third of his estate, most of
which went to his grandson John Rider (1686-
1739/40). Hutchins was probably related to Fran-
cis Hutchins (?-1698), to whom he assigned his
headlight claim. He was appointed to the county
bench within two years of arrival, but he was
called "broken London carpenter" by Edward
Randolph in 1692. OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE:
planter; merchant. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE
SERVICE: Associators' Convention, Dorchester
County, 1689-1692; Upper House, 1692-1693
(Laws 2), 1694-1697, 1697/98-1700. OTHER PRO-
VINCIAL OFFICES: Council, 1691-1700; justice,
Provincial Court, 1693-1694 (quorum). LOCAL
OFFICE: justice, Dorchester County, 1674-1692
(quorum, 1689-1692). MILITARY SERVICE: colonel,
by 1690-1700. STANDS ON PUBLIC/PRIVATE is-
SUES: he supported the revolution of Protestant
Associators in 1689 and rose rapidly in office
thereafter. WEALTH DURING LIFETIME. LAND AT
FIRST ELECTION: ca. 5,000 acres. WEALTH AT
DEATH. DIED: will probated on October 23, 1700.
PERSONAL PROPERTY: TEV, £1,058.8.7 sterling
(including 18 slaves and 6 servants). LAND: over
3,918 acres.
HUTCHINS, FRANCIS (?-1698). IMMIGRATED:
in 1652 as a indentured servant to Richard Preston
(?-ca. 1669/70). RESIDED: in Calvert County.
MARRIED Elizabeth. Her sister was Margaret Bur-
rage, who married first, Nathan Smith, and sec-
ond, Thomas Tench (?-1708). CHILDREN. SON:
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John. DAUGHTERS: Margaret, who married Abra-
ham Johns (1677-1707), son of Richard Johns
(1649-1717); Elizabeth, who married first, Roger
Brooke, son of Roger Brooke (1637-1700), and
second, Richard Smith; Sarah; Frances; Priscilla,
who married Richard Johns, Jr. (1687-1719); and
Mary, who married Samuel Thomas, son of Philip
Thomas (?-1675). PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION:
illiterate. RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: Protestant; his
wife and at least some of his children were Quak-
ers. OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: servant, 1652;
planter; merchant. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE
SERVICE: Lower House, Calvert County, 1682-
1684, 1694-1697 (Aggrievances 3). LOCAL OFFICE:
justice, Calvert County, 1679-1698 (quorum,
1697-1698). STANDS ON PUBLIC/PRIVATE ISSUES.
he opposed the Protestant Associators' revolution
of 1689; he was nominated by Lord Baltimore to
the first royal Council in 1690, but he was not ap-
pointed. WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED: will probated
On July 14, 1698. PERSONAL PROPERTY: TEV,
£813.17.3 sterling (including 8 slaves, 2 servants,
and merchandise worth £209.5.9). LAND: 1,000
acres.
HUTCHINSON (HUTCHISON), WILLIAM
(?-1711). BORN: in Scotland. IMMIGRATED: by
1685 as a free adult. RESIDED: in Charles County;
Piscattaway Hundred, Prince George's County,
after 1695. FAMILY BACKGROUND. FATHER: John
Hutchinson, a landowner of Ayrshire, Scotland.
BROTHER: George. MARRIED Sarah. CHILDREN.
SONS: John; William. DAUGHTERS: Ann, who mar-
ried Gabriel Parker; Mary, who married John Ab-
ington; and Elizabeth, who married William Pile.
PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION: literate. RELIGIOUS
AFFILIATION: Presbyterian. SOCIAL STATUS AND
ACTIVITIES: a close associate of John Addison (?-
ca. 1705/6); "out of the country" in 1704, which
probably accounts for the termination of his as-
sembly and judicial service; his sons held no major
offices. OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: surveyor; ac-
quired great wealth through Indian trade and land
speculation; planter; merchant. PUBLIC CAREER.
LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Lower House, Charles
County, 1694-1696 (resigned during or after the
5th session as a Charles County burgess upon elec-
tion from the newly established county of Prince
George's), Prince George's County, 1696-1697
(Laws 8), 1697/98-1700 (Laws 3, 4; Aggrievances
1, 2). LOCAL OFFICES: justice, Charles County,
1689-1696, Prince George's County, 1696-1697,
1699-1704 (quorum, 1696-1697, 1699-1704; pres-
ident, 1702-1704); coroner, Charles County, 1690;
surveyor, Charles and St. Mary's counties, 1692;
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