Z 1757.000 Hutchins (Odlin) Manuscript

Anthony Hutchins was born in New Jersey about 1719 and died about 1804 near Natchez, Mississippi Territory. Hutchins moved to South Carolina at an undetermined date, within a brief period before 1772, and became a planter. By the onset of the American Revolution, Hutchins was living in the Natchez area and remained loyal to the British during the war. Hutchins served the government of the Mississippi Territory following the end of the American Revolution, but was persistently under suspicion for harboring loyalist sentiments until his death. John Hutchins, one of Anthony's eight children, served as a link between the Hutchins family and the prominent Thomas Marston Green family by marrying Green's daughter Elizabeth. Their divorce in 1799 was a source of scandalous rumor, but failed to break the political alliance of the two families.

This manuscript, written by J. Odlin Hutchins in 1879, records the author's reminiscences about the lives of his father, John Hutchins, and grandfather, Anthony Hutchins. Comments on the role of these two leading figures in the territorial days of Mississippi are presented. Political activities, military participation, and aspects of planter life for the Hutchins family are recalled. Genealogical material provides historical data on the Hutchins family from 1772 to 1868.

Series: 1. Manuscript entitled: "Reminiscences of Col. Anthony and John Hutchins." 1 vol.