Person:Nicholas Hutchins (1)

Nicholas served in King Phillip's War with Daniel Hitchins, also of Lynn, and was wounded 19 December 1675. In 1681 he moved with his family to Groton, Massachusetts, where he was granted ten acres of land on 14 November of that year. On December 31, 1683, he bought an additional 10 acres of land. On 12 December 1692 he was chosen Groton's town surveyor. The town records of Groton contain the transaction in the handwriting of John Morse, town clerk: "A persell of land, of ten acres, mor of lesse granted by the town to Nicholas Hutchin. "1. One acre, mor of lesse, lyeing betwixt South Meadow and South Brook, bounded round by the town common. "2. Two acres, mor or lesse, lyeing on the northeast sid of the hyeway upon a swamp that runs to South Brook, bounded by the town common. "3. Sixe acres, mor of lesse, lyeing southeast of Sand Pound bounded round by the town common."

source: "Nicholas Hutchins of Lynn and Groton" by Marvin Clayton Hutchins