1767 Aaron Hutchinson was born at Milford, Mercer County, New Jersey on May 17. [1]
1787 Aaron Hutcheson was an associate Methodist preacher in Del. with Jacob Brush. [2]
1788 Aaron Hutchinson was a member of the Flanders Methodist Church in Morris County, New Jersey. [3] [4]
1790 Aaron Hutchinson was appointed as clergyman at the Trenton-Greene Street Methodist Episcopal Church. [5]
1791 Aaron Hutchinson died on July 30, in Milford, East Windsor, Middlesex County, New Jersey. [6]
1791 The death of Aaron Hutchinson was reported: "Aaron Hutchinson, a man of clear understanding, gospel simplicity, and godly sincerity, blameless in his life, acceptable as a preacher, fruitful in his labours, which ended in the short space of four years. He was patient, resigned, and confident in his last moments." [7] [8] Aaron Hutchinson died July 30, 1791 at Milford. [9] [10]
1793 Mary (Jaques) Hutchinson, widow of Aaron Hutchinson, married John Clark.
1850 Mary Clark (born in New Jersey) lived in Auburn Ward 2, Cayuga County, New York, in a household with Saml S Coonley (43), Harriet Coonley (43), James P Coonley (17), Arminta Coonley (15), Mary C Coonley (13), John C Coonley (11), and Sarah Epta Clark (50). [11]
1853 Mary Clark, spouse of John Clark, died on April 13. Mary Clark was born in 1768. [12]
A biosketch reports [13]:
Aaron Hutchinson was born at Milford, Mercer county, N. J. the 17th of May 1767. He was converted to God about the year 1786, and though the youngest of the four brothers who became preachers, he was the first to enter the itinerant field. "When converted to God," says Rev. H. B. Beegle, to whom I am indebted for the following notice of him-" When converted to God he gave evidence of such gifts, and promise of so much usefulness to the Church, that brother M'Claskey immediately took him along with him around the circuit requiring him to exercise his gifts in prayer and exhortation. When they came came back to Joseph Hutchinson's, brother M'Claskey said he must preach there. It was a great cross to the youthful soldier. But a few months since he was converted; and no opportunities for study, for they had been on the wing from the time they left until they returned. And then to open his commission among his own kindred too. But he lifted his cross and stood up, and preached from Isa. ii. 3. They were all astonished at the marvelous manner in which God assisted the stripling. His mother, especially, wept profusely through the whole service. He was immediately called out as a supply on some of the large circuits. Whether he labored with M'Claskey and Cooper on 'East Jersey' or went elsewhere we know not, but it is settled that he labored somewhere during most of the year 1786. At the Conference of 1787 he was admitted as a traveling preacher, and appointed to Dover, Del.; in 1788 and '89 he was on Flanders circuit; in 1790 he was appointed to Trenton, where he ended his labors.
The General Minutes, in noting his death, 'contain an estimate of him by his brethren of the Conference. They say he was 'a man of clear understanding; gospel simplicity; blameless in his life; acceptable as a preacher; fruitful in his labors, which ended in the short space of four years. He was patient, resigned, and confident in his last moments.'
He was married some time during his ministry to a lady by the name of Jaques. He frequently tried his hand at poetry. On meeting with Mrs. Hannah Salter, a daughter of Aaron Hutchinson, she informed me of her father's poetic tendencies, and of the many effusions of his she had stored away. She was away from home at the time, but with one she was so familiar that she could repeat it, and as she did so I penned it as follows:
The Good Samaritan
The road that leads to Jericho,
That bloody way that sinners go:
They fall among the thieves of hell,
Eternally with them to dwell.I never shall forget the day
When on that road I bleeding lay;
Was stript, and wounded-left half dead,
And not a friend to raise my head.A priest came there, but he passed by;
He never stopped to hear my cry:
A Levite looked upon my wound
But no relief from him I found.Samaritans I did despise,
Yet one drew near and heard my cries;
He gently raised me from the ground,
Poured oil and wine into my wound.He kindly took me to an Inn,
A place where I had never been;
He watched, and fed, and clothed me there
Made me the object of his care.And when my friend departed thence
He called the host and gave two pence;
Saying, "If more on him he spent,
I will repay; it's only lent."I will repay thee when I come
To take my ransomed people home,
Where sickness, sorrow, death, nor pain
Shall never trouble them again.What rapturous awe will fill my soul
When I see Him who made me whole;
Throughout eternal, boundless days
This GOOD SAMARITAN I'll praise!Brother Hutchinson departed this life at Milford, July 30, 1791 and his remains lie in the old Burial Ground there.
A biosketch of brother Sylvester Hutchinson reported the following: "There were three brothers in the itinerant ministry, Sylvester, Robert, and Aaron. An old preacher whom time has shaken by the hand, who was well acquainted with the Hutchinson family, says they were born in Burlington County, New Jersey...In regard to preaching, Aaron was considered the best preacher, the most able of the three. I have a letter of his before me, to Rev. Thomas Morrell, which exhibits a very pure spirit, and shows the character of the man. . He was in the work only four years. He was received in 1787, and died in 1791. Mr. Hutchinson had a clear head and a warm heart. He exhibited gospel simplicity and godly sincerity, was blameless in life, and triumphant in death." [14]
"In 1790, Simon Pile and Aaron Hutchinson were appointed by [Methodist] Conference. In 1791, Robert Carin and Robert Hutchinson." [15]
Aaron Hutchinson was born in 1767 and died in 1791. [16]
[1] John Atkinson, Memorials of Methodism in New Jersey, Second Edition, (Philadelphia: Perkinpine & Higgins, 1860), 412, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[2] Edwin Warriner, Old Sands Street Methodist Episcopal Church of Brooklyn NY (NY: Phillips & Hunt, 1885), 96, [GoogleBooks].
[3] New Jersey, United Methodist Church Records, 1800-1970, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[4] New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, U.S., United Methodist Church Records, 1775-1949, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[5] Major E. M. Woodward and John Hageman, History of Burlington and Mercer Counties, New Jersey (Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1883), 727, [HathiTrust].
[6] John Atkinson, Memorials of Methodism in New Jersey, Second Edition, (Philadelphia: Perkinpine & Higgins, 1860), 415, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[7] Minutes of the annual conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church for the years 1773-1828, Vol. 1 (1840), 41, [HathiTrust].
[8] Jesse Lee, A short history of the Methodists, in the United States of America (1810), 169, [GoogleBooks].
[9] John Atkinson, Memorials of Methodism in New Jersey, Second Edition, (Philadelphia: Perkinpine & Higgins, 1860), 415, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[10] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[11] United States Federal Census, 1850, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[12] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[13] John Atkinson, Memorials of Methodism in New Jersey, Second Edition, (Philadelphia: Perkinpine & Higgins, 1860), 412, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[14] Joseph Beaumont Wakeley. Lost chapters recovered from the early history of American Methodism (1858), 527, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[15] John O. Raum, History of the City of Trenton, New Jersey, embracing a period of nearly two hundred years (1871), 119, [HathiTrust].
[16] Biography & Genealogy Master Index (BGMI), citing A New Jersey Biographical Index. Sinclair, Donald Arleigh, [AncestryRecord].