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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hutchings , William 1764 - (search)
Hutchings, William 1764-
Continental soldier; born in York, Me., Oct. 6, 1764.
He and Lemuel Cook, another of the late survivors, were born the same year, and died the same month.
They were the last survivors of the soldiers in the Revolutionary War. When William was four years old the family removed to Plantation Number Three, at the
William Hutchings. mouth of the Penobscot (now Castine). There, on a farm, which his descendants occupied, he continued to live until his death, May 2, 1866, excepting a short interval of time.
He was a witness to the stirring scenes of the Massachusetts expedition to Penobscot in 1779, and aided (by compulsion) the British in the
Remains of Fort George in 1860. construction of Fort George, on the peninsula.
After the destruction of the British fleet, his father, who refused to take the oath of allegiance to the crown, retired to New Castle, where he remained until the close of the war. At the age of fifteen, having acquired a man's stature
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America . (search)