1. Marmaduke HUTCHINSON [image] was born on 7 Apr 1755.
Marmaduke Hutchinson has been of particular interest to me as a researcher, but the information about him has not come easily. At this point, I believe Marmaduke, who was a Quaker, was likely the one listed in the Pennsylvania Blacklist Document (kindly reproduced at RootsWeb and elsewhere), which indicates he was of the Township of New Britain in Bucks County about 1778 or before. Marmaduke may have fled to Crosswicks, NJ, for a time, and then northeast to Paulus Hook, NJ., where he was listed on 26 Aug 1781 as a carpenter in the Return of Employees document for the muster roll of the Engineering Department (National Archives of Canada). By the time Paulus Hook was evacuated by the British on 22 Nov 1783, Marmaduke and his family had already fled to Canada in the Spring Fleet sailing.
Marmaduke, his wife Martha, and two children sailed from New York on 27 May 1783 on one of 50 ships that left in the evacuation known as the Spring Fleet. Of the 50 ships left that day, 10 of these were destined for Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. The Hutchinsons arrived at Saint John as civilian refugees, rather than military loyalists, and received rations for at least 70 days provided by the British government. They probably went up the Saint John River before June 1784 and settled in Queen's County, receiving property in Colonel Spry's land grant, Lot 10 Canning, on the northeast side of the Saint John River across from Upper Gagetown. He built a home and cultivated this property, petitioning for it on 21 Jun 1786. This property appears to be the land on which is built the north end of the current Highway 2 bridge across the Saint John River.
By 1789, Marmaduke had moved about 40 kms north where he settled and improved lands at the mouth of Salmon River at the head of Grand Lake. It was probably here that Marmaduke met Anthony Terrill, a loyalist settler from Dutchess County, NY, who would later appear in Ontario as a neighbour of Marmaduke's daughter. Other neighbours at the head of Grand Lake were Arthur Branscombe, Roger Barton, and Jacob Reynolds, the husband of one of Marmaduke's daughters. Marmaduke was mentioned in 1795 at this same location in a petition of Anthony Terrill, and was still there in 1797 when he petitioned for a further 200 acres at his Salmon River site. Marmaduke sold his original land at Lot 10 Canning in 1800. These properties were in Waterborough Parish, Queen's County. In March 1805, Marmaduke was still a resident of the Parish, although the family may have moved a time or two within the same general area. They remained there until at least 1807.
By 1809, the Hutchinsons had moved to Prince Edward County, Ontario, for they are listed among the Quaker records there beginning at this time. Whether Marmaduke made the trip or died in New Brunswick is unknown, for, as yet, he has not been definitely identified in the Ontario records with his children. Marmaduke's daughter Dorothy married at West Lake, Ontario, in 1810, and she relocated with her husband a few years later to Murray Township near Wooler, Ontario, where they raised their family. Anthony Terrill appears as her neighbour in Murray beginning in 1816.
Marmaduke married Martha [image].
They had the following children:
+ 2 M i Samuel HUTCHINSON + 3 F ii HUTCHINSON + 4 F iii Hannah HUTCHINSON + 5 F iv Dorothy HUTCHINSON + 6 M v Marmaduke HUTCHINSON
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