Category: Hutchinson Family

• Pitch Pine

  

  Brother John digs deep in search of light, and Brother Asa gets the axe … << BEFORE: Candles from hogs …

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  24 March, 2016

  1800-1899, 1820s, farms, forestry, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, NH history

  amputation, Asa Hutchinson, Ben Hutchinson, candles, John Hutchinson, pine

• Illumination

  

  Whale oil or hog fat? The sustainable energy debate of the 1820s…

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  24 February, 2016

  1800-1899, 1820s, farms, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, NH history, pigs

  candles, David Hutchinson, John Hutchinson, Noah Hutchinson, pig, polly hutchinson, Rhoda Hutchinson, whale

• Choirmaster Power Play

  

  Brother Joshua makes his move …

  Marek

  9 February, 2016

  1800-1899, 1820s, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, music & dance, NH history, religion

  1820s, church, joshua hutchinson, Milford, music

• Empty Rooms

  

  Yet more neighborly concern for the Hutchinson family’s new home …

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  27 January, 2016

  1800-1899, 1820s, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, music & dance, NH history

  1820s, Milford, music, polly hutchinson

• Resolved

  

  Early 19th century Baptist activism, hosted at the old district two school house …

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  23 January, 2016

  1800-1899, 1800s, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, NH history, politics, religion

  1800s, abolition, alcohol, baptist, Milford, prayer, school, slavery, temperance

• The Twin Buglers

  

  Milford’s most unusual marching band …

  Marek

  19 January, 2016

  1800-1899, 1820s, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, music & dance, NH history

  1820s, caleb hutchinson, joshua hutchinson, Milford, militia, music, polly hutchinson

• Heirloom

  

  Brother Joshua discovers his Revolutionary namesake …

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  12 January, 2016

  1800-1899, 1820s, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, NH history, revolutionary era

  1820s, apples, Burnham, feature, George Washington, jesse-hutchinson-jr, Milford, polly hutchinson, revolution

• Colonel Burnham’s Apple Pockets

  

  Jesse Sr. invites Colonel Burnham to stay on at the old farm … 

  Marek

  7 January, 2016

  1800-1899, 1820s, apples, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, NH history

  1820s, apples, Burnham, Jesse Hutchinson Sr., Milford

• Joshua’s Job

  

  Brother Joshua helps his siblings across the wide Souhegan valley …

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  5 January, 2016

  1820s, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, NH history

  1820s, Asa Hutchinson, John Hutchinson, joshua hutchinson, Milford, polly hutchinson

• Buying Burnham’s Farm

  

  With ten children (and counting), Jesse and Polly Hutchinson hatch a plan to buy Colonel Burnham’s old inn … 

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  4 January, 2016

  1820s, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, NH history

  1820s, Burnham, Jesse Hutchinson Sr., Milford

• Musical Family

  

  Decades later, townsfolk fondly remembered one voice in the local church choir…

  Marek

  9 December, 2015

  1800-1899, 1800s, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Mont Vernon, music & dance, religion, sabbath

  Jesse Hutchinson Sr., Mont Vernon, Polly Leavitt Hutchinson, Sarah Leavitt

• Clean Living

  

  The musical history of NH’s famous Singing Hutchinsons runs deep… and complicated:

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  2 December, 2015

  1790s, corn, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, music & dance

  Andrew Hutchinson, corn, dance, Jesse Hutchinson Sr., Milford, tobacco, violin

• Hutchinson Family Singers

  

  Color portrait of the world-famous Milford, NH quartet… PLUS series source links!

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  1 December, 2015

  1800-1899, 1840s, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, music & dance

  Abby Hutchinson, Asa Hutchinson, John Hutchinson, Judson Hutchinson, Milford, The Old Granite State