Author: Hutchinson, Samuel
Biography:
HUTCHINSON, Samuel (b 1781: ancestry.com)
Unlike his protégé Clement Phinney (q.v.), Hutchinson was born into the Free Baptist community and stayed with it all his life. He was born in Hebron ME on 9 Aug. 1781, the second of eleven children of Rev. Joseph Hutchinson (1755-1801) and his wife Rebecca Legro, who had married in 1778. Of his education little is known, but in one of his pamphlets he asks the indulgence of readers for his not having had the benefit of learning English grammar in his youth. Despite several passing references to him in accounts of Free Baptist revival meetings in the 1810s and 1820s, there is hardly any reliable information about his adult life. He was certainly an evangelist for his sect and a leader among them. Besides the collection of hymns he co-authored with Phinney, he published a few pamphlets on points of religious controversy and a few sermons between 1817 and 1828, all with Maine imprints (Kennebunk, Norway, Portland). He may have farmed land in New Hampshire as well. No records have been found of any marriage, or of his death. (ancestry.com 18 Jan. 2023; findmypast.com 18 Jan. 2023)