Career
"Later, as First Lieutenant in the 9th company of Stark"s 74th regiment, he was transferred to (later Major General) Henry Dearborn"s company in the expedition against Quebec in Colonel Benedict Arnold"s detachment. The thousand men marched to Newburyport, where they embarked on September 18, 1775.
During the campaign, Lieutenant
Nathanial and Dearborn, as well as others, were captured at Quebec December 31, 1775. On April 4, 1777, the New Hampshire House promoted Lieutenant
Nathaniel to Captain in Colonel Cilley"s regiment. His company, with sixteen or more men from Weare, was in the first New Hampshire regiment in John Sullivan"s brigade.
lieutenant saw action under Washington at Trenton and Princeton.
Nathaniel was at White Plains in July 1778. The records indicate absence for illness "at Hartford" from November 1778 to April 1779. George Washington had written from Valley Forge on May 20, 1778 to Major General Heath of Boston as follows: "I shall direct a guard to relieve (Nathaniel) Hutchins at Reading".
Later, Nathaniel was on furlough from October 1779 to the end of the year.
But he was sick again the last two months of 1780 and seems to have retired from service pursuant to a general order of November 1, 1780. His military record is as follows: French and Indian War Ensign, Roger"s Rangers, New Hampshire Detachment under Captain
John Stark, 1759 American Revolution 2nd Lieutenant, 1st New Hampshire (U.S.) Regiment under Colonel John Stark, April 23, 1775 (Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775) 1st Lieutenant, 5th Continental Infantry, January 1, 1776 Captain Lieutenant, September 25, 1776 Captain Lieutenant 1st New Hampshire (U.S.), November 8, 1776 Captain, April 4, 1777 retired January 1, 1781 His headstone has inscribed upon it: "Nathaniel Hutchins died 10 January
1832, aged 89. He served in the French War 5 years, was Commanding Officer in the Revolutionary War, and was in the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775." The grave bears a Revolutionary War flag.