TOGA: Richard Hutchinson- first farmer to own a plow in Salem MA

Richard Hutchinson (1602 - 1682)- 10th great grandfather
Joseph Hutchinson (1633 - 1716) son of Richard Hutchinson
Benjamin Hutchinson (1668 - 1733) son of Joseph Hutchinson
Benjamin Hutchinson (1694 - 1780) son of Benjamin Hutchinson
Nathan Hutchinson (1716 - 1795) son of Benjamin Hutchinson
Samuel Hutchinson (1749 - 1821) son of Nathan Hutchinson
Samuel Hutchinson (1775 - 1852) son of Samuel Hutchinson
Martha T. Hutchinson (1801 - 1887) daughter of Samuel Hutchinson
William S Burnham (1824 - 1905) son of Martha T. Hutchinson
Mary Frances Burnham (1863 - 1956) daughter of William S Burnham
William Burnham Liebler (1902 - 1975) son of Mary Frances Burnham
William Michael Liebler (1928 - 1994) son of William Burnham Liebler
Mary Rose Karline Liebler daughter of William Michael Liebler


Richard Hutchinson was the most practical of all our immigrant ancestors.  Most of our ancestors came for a strong set of beliefs.  While that may be true of Richard too, history records that he came with a plow.  I remember my uncle Frank telling me as a small child that while some people called him lazy, he preferred to think of himself as someone who always found the easiest way to do whatever he had to do.  For example, he would make sandwiches with one slice of bread because you could just take a slice of bread, put something on it, fold it over, and have a handy sized sandwich.  Think Richard might have had some of that kind of thinking.

In the early days of the New England settlement, everyone had to be a farmer because the food was all grown with hand tools, making it hard for anyone to grow more food than his own family needed. I can just imagine a Frank-minded ancestor back in England- no way am I going to plow my fields with a hoe and shovel- and so he brought a plow.  And Salem gave him extra land time and time again- because he had a plow.

Here are some links to peruse on your own:
http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hutchinson-201
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rhutch/richard_hutchinson.html

Here is a tracing of our family from the thirteenth century through Benjamin Hutchinson.  Although it continues longer, it only looks at the heirs, so in our line it sotos at Benjamin.
Genealogy of Hutchinsons of Salem MA
  Like the Lathrop line, the Hutchinsons begin in the East Riding of Yorkshire. In 1278, Barnard Hutchinson was described as the proprietor of the parish of Cowan in the East Riding of Yorkshire.  This was a parish with a tiny population- mostly his family and retainers- but a few thousand acres.  He held the
Hutchinson Crest and Motto Bravely Supporting the Cross