The Hutchinson Brothers - one for fame, one for glory
John M Hutchinson was born about 1810, somewhere between New Jersey and new York, to Samuel Hutchinson and Rachel Mount. John married Rebecca Hansell October 19, 1834 in Hunterdon County, probably in Trenton, New Jersey. The early boundaries of Trenton (then Hunterdon County) and Burlington County were both in “Trenton” with Hunterdon County on the north bank of the Assanpink and Burlington on the south side. This creek is only 10 feet wide. There were large families of Hutchinsons living opposite of Trenton across the Delaware River in Pennsylvania. They moved back and forth continuously by the ferries. John and Rebecca moved to jersey co, Illinois sometime around 1837, with Rebecca's father joining them. In 1876 Isaac (Rebecca's uncle) gave an account of his trip and reasons for settling in Illinois that sheds some light on how and why the Hansell, Hutchinson and Sunderland families came to Illinois from New Jersey. “In the year of 1844, ...