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Judson, Asa, Abby and John forming the quar- tette. They were abolitionists, temperance advo- cates, and favored woman suffrage, and directed their songs to meet the sentiments of these grow- ing reforms. In 1845 they travelled through Great Britain and Ireland, where they were ex- tremely popular. Their anti-slavery songs led to their re- ceiving engagements from conventions and T-:^ political mass meet- ings, and they trav- elled over the entire north and west, sing- ing to large audi- ences. In the Repub- lican campaigns of 1856 and 1860 they were especially ef- fective, and when the civil war occurred they visited recruiting camps, where they cheered the volunteers with patriotic songs. John, with his son and daughter, vis- ited the Army of the Potomac in Virginia after the battle of Bull Run, July, 1861, and were at first expelled by order of the commanding gen- eral, but an order from President Lincoln, ap- proved by the cabinet, re-admitted them, and they became not only singers, but active nurses in the hospital camps. Jesse (born 1813, died 1853) composed numerous songs which became very popular, including : " Emancipation Song," " Good Old Days of Yore,'' " The Slave Mother," " The Slave's Appeal," and " Right over Wrong." Judson (born 1817, died 1859) composed and sang political, humorous and pathetic songs. Asa, the basso (born 1823, died 1884), was the business manager. Abby, the contralto (born 1829, died 1892), was married in 1849 and retired from pub- lic life. John Wallace, the most talented singer of the family, composed several anti-slavery and woman suffrage songs and man j^ pathetic ballads. He was the last survivor of the original troupe, and on his seventieth birthday, 1891, his relatives and friends assembled at- his home. Tower Cot- tage, High Rock, Lynn, Mass., where were present his sister Abby and his surviving children, with those of his deceased brothers, Judson, Noah and Andrew. On his seventy-fifth birthday the American Temperance union, which he had or- ganized twenty-five years before, gave him a re- ception in Chickering hall. New York, and on his seventy-seventh birthday the Peace society gave him a reception in Independence hall, Phil- adelphia. In 1901 he had given nearly 11,700 con- certs. He is the author of : The Story of the Hutchinsons (2 vols..

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HUTCHINSON, Thomas, colonial governor of Massachusetts, was born in Boston, Mass., Sept. 9, 1711 ; son of Thomas and Sarah (Foster) Hutchinson ; grandson of Elisha Hutchinson, first chief justice of the court of common pleas, and a councillor ; great- grandson of Capt. Edward Hutchinson, who was murdered by the Nipmunk In- dians, and great-- grandson of William and Anne (Marbury) Hutchinson, who

were banished to Rhode Island from Massachusetts in 1637 for their religious be- lief. He was gradu- ated at Harvard in 1727, became a law- yer, was selectman of

Boston, representative to the general court for ten years, and for three years speaker. He was married, in 1734, to Margaret, daugliter of Gov. John Sandford, of Rhode Island. She died in 1753. He was lieutenant-governor in 1758 ; chief justice in 1760 ; acting governor in 1769, and governor in 1771. His house was twice attacked in the stamp act riots of 1765, and during the second attack his furniture and libraiy were carried to the street and burned. He could not endure the opprobrium heaped on him by Otis, Bowdoin, Hancock, Samuel Adams and John Adams, and on June 1, 1774, he sailed for England and did not return to his native land. For his loyalty he was pensioned by the crown. Much of his valuable manuscript was destroyed with his fur- niture, but out of tliat saved was : History of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (vols. I. and II., 1764-67) ; Collection of Original Papers Fcelative to the History of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay (1769). A third volume, completing the History of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, was edited by his grandson, the Rev. John Hutchinson, and published in London in 1828. His great-grand- son, Peter Orlando Hutchinson, published Diary and Letters of Thomas Hutchinson (2 vols.. 1884- 86). He died in Brompton, England, June 3, 1780.

HUTCHINSON, Titus, jurist, was born in Graf- ton, Mass., April 29, 1771 ; the youngest son of the Rev. Aaron and Marjory (Carter) Hutchin- son. He was fitted for college by liis father and applied for admission to the junior class at Dart- mouth in 1792. Tiie trustees refused to receive him unless he would pay the full four j-ears' tuition. This he could not do, and mounting his horse, with his clothes still in his saddle-bags, he continued the journey to the College of New