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- The Family Bible published in 1771, was first owned by Mr. Benjamin Tucker, whose plantation home was in the southeastern part of South Carolina. It came into the possesion of the Hutchinson family upon the marriage of Louisa Postel Tucker, the widow of Benjamin Tucker, to Colonel Mathias Edward Hutchinson on July 27th, 1786, this being the third of his five marriages. Louisa Tucker Hutchinson died just nineteen days after the birth of her son Edward L. Hutchinson, who became the forefather of all succeeding generations of the family.
Mathias Hutchinson owned, and lived and died on, his plantation “Travelers Rest” near the site of the old town of Dorchester, on the Ashley River, in South Carolina. He served in the State Senate of South Carolina from 1791 to 1809. He, together with a number of his descendents, is buried in the church yard of Dorchester. All of his living descendents are from his union with Louisa Tucker.
It is believed that Colonel Mathias was descended from Colonel John Hutchinson, Governor of Nottingham Castle and Town, in the reigh of King Charles II. The coat-of-arms on this chart, drawn by Thomas Hutchinson, represents the seal of the Hutchinson family which, prior to the Revolutionary War, settled in South Carolina, and traced its lineage to Colonel John Hutchinson of Nottingham.
His property included 400 acres near the Edisto River in St. George Dorchester, 74 acres in the fork of the Conagree and Wateree Rivers, and Traveller’s Rest plantation on the upper Ashley River in St. George Dorchester.
He was elected to the House for the Sixth (1785-1786), Seventh (1787-1788), and Eighth (1789-1790) General Assemblies, he sat in the Senate from the Ninth (1791) through the Eighteenth (1808-1809) General Assemblies. He was a delegate for St. George Dorchester at the state convention, he voted to ratify the federal Consitution (1788); he later represented his home parish at the state constitutional convention (1790). Paralleling his long legislative career, Hutchinson held a number of local offices: road commissioner for St. George Dorchester (1786); commissioner of the Dorchester free school (1789); commissioner, to fill vacancies of the vestry and churchwardens of the Episcopal Church of St. George Dorchester (1789); commissioner, for erecting a toll road over Cypress Swamp (1795); and militia major (1798) and lieutenant colonel (1808) of the Thiry-first Regiment. Furthermore, he was a member of the Fellowship Society (1775) and the St. George’s Jockey Club (ca. 1786). During the American Revolution, he furnished provisions for he Continental use (1781). [3, 4]
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1746 - 1812 (66 years)
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