Some descendents of Abraham Hutchings
Harvey M. and Claude
Hutchings Harvey M. and his father,
J. Harvey Hutchings in the Hutchings drugstore in Bancroft,
Michigan The
Hutchings Drugstore exterior. Its proprietor was J. Harvey
Hutchings. History of Niagara County, New York, 1821.
Harvey M., Grace, Faith, and Paul Hutchings
A BRITISH SOLDIER IN AMERICA
Our Hutchings progenitor is Abraham. He came to Wilson, Niagara
County, New York in 1816 from Avon, Livingston County. 'He was a
soldier in the War of 1812, previous to which he had served seven
years in the English army, at the end of which time he had been
re-enlisted through fraud or deceit. He, in 1813, with a company of
thirty, was sent to Queenston, when, taking advantage of the
opportunity, he deserted and joined the American army. At the battle
of Black Rock he and a comrade named Berry, who had deserted with
him, were taken prisoners by the British, and carried back to
Queenston, Canada. After about three weeks captivity, he was smuggled
across the Niagara River by a British surgeon named Anson Mary, who
had been an old neighbor and friend in England. Berry was afterwards
shot for desertion.'