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Hutchins was born in Monmouth County, New Jersey, in 1730. Left an orphan before he was sixteen, he spent his youth in the "Western country".
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An Historical account of the expedition against the Ohio Indians, in the year 1764, under the command of Henry Bouquet, Esq.: with an introductory ... to which are annexed military papers ...
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Title: An Historical account of the expedition against the Ohio Indians, in the year 1764, under the command of Henry Bouquet, Esq. : with an introductory account of the preceeding campaign, and battle at Bushy-Run, to which are annexed military papers ... Author: Thomas Hutchins Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more. Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ SourceLibrary: Huntington Library DocumentID: SABCP00285000 CollectionID: CTRG10167000-B PublicationDate: 17650101 SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America Notes: Attributed to William Smith; sometimes also attributed to Thomas Hutchins. With Latin mottoes on t.p. verso and errata on p. 71. Collation: xiii, 71 p., 3 leaves of folded plates : ill. ; 23 cm
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Experiments on the Dipping Needle, made by Desire of the Royal Society. Read February 16, 1775. A rare original article from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1775.
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A Topographical Description of Virginia Pennsylvania Maryland and North Carolina: Reprinted From the Original Ed. Of 1778
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An Historical Narrative and Topographical Description of Louisiana and West-Florida
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Thomas Hutchins
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He served as an officer of Pennsylvania colonial troops from 1757 to 1759, and later entered the regular British service, in which he remained until 1780. He took part in the French and Indian War and was commended for bravery. He had acquired a knowledge of engineering, and laid out the plans for military works at Fort Pitt and at Pensacola, Fla. He kept journals of his travels while under military orders, and illustrated them with maps. Among these are: "Journal of a March from Fort Pitt to Venango and from Thence to Presqu' Isle, " 1760; An Historical Account of the Expedition Against the Ohio Indians in the Year 1764 (1765), probably by Hutchins, but attributed also to Dr. William Smith; a "Journal from Fort Pitt to the Mouth of the Ohio, in the Year 1768"; and "Remarks on the Country of the Illinois". Larger works are A Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and North Carolina (London, 1778), and An Historical Narrative and Topographical Description of Louisiana and West-Florida (Philadelphia, 1784).
When the American Revolution broke out, Hutchins, then a captain and engineer, was in London. Being unwilling to bear arms against his countrymen, he asked, but was refused, permission to sell his captaincy. He declined to accept a majority in a new regiment, and was then, in August 1779, taken into custody charged with high treason for having communicated information to the friends of the United States in France. On February 11, 1780, having been released from prison, he resigned his commission, and "in a private manner" went to France, where he presented himself to Franklin. The latter recommended him to Congress, and he sailed from L'Orient for Charleston where he joined the southern army under General Greene.
By resolution, on May 4, 1781, Congress appointed him geographer to the southern army. On July 11, the title was changed to "geographer to the United States. " At the conclusion of the war, Hutchins retained his office as civil geographer, but was permitted to accept commissions from the states. In 1783 he was employed by Pennsylvania to view the roads leading from Susquehanna to Reading and Philadelphia, and to select sites for towns. In the same year he was appointed to serve as a Pennsylvania commissioner to run the western end of the boundary line between Virginia and Pennsylvania. The astronomical observations by which the southwestern point of Pennsylvania was determined were finished on September 20, 1784. He reported to Congress on March 7, 1785, and later asked leave of absence to continue the work. His services were now required, however, for duties specified by the Ordinance of May 20, 1785, which provided a method of survey and sale of lands in the westtern territory ceded to Congress by the states. The geographer of the United States was given entire charge of the survey, and was instructed personally to run the east and west line, upon which the survey of the whole territory depended.
Hutchins was continued in office for three years from May 27, 1785, and was then reëlected for two years. Four, and part of the fifth, of the "seven ranges" which were the beginning of the present system of platting public lands in the United States, were run under his direction. His first expedition, beginning in September 1785, had to be abandoned on account of "the uncertain state of the Indians. " His second expedition, from May 23, 1786, to February 21, 1787, was carried out under the protection of a military escort. The plats of four ranges (now in the drafting division of the United States General Land Office) were submitted to Congress on April 18, 1787. In that year he ran the boundary line between New York and Massachusetts. On September 2, 1788, he began his third expedition to complete the seven ranges. When he had proceeded beyond Pittsburgh, illness forced him to return thither, where he died on April 28, 1789. The Gazette of the United States concluded a commendatory memorial notice by the remark, "he has measured much earth, but a small space now contains him. "
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An Historical Narrative and Topographical Description of Louisiana and West-Florida
( About the Book In historical fiction the plot is set in...)
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An Historical account of the expedition against the Ohio Indians, in the year 1764, under the command of Henry Bouquet, Esq.: with an introductory ... to which are annexed military papers ...
( Title: An Historical account of the expedition against ...)
- Experiments on the Dipping Needle, made by Desire of the Royal Society. Read February 16, 1775. A rare original article from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1775.
- A Topographical Description of Virginia Pennsylvania Maryland and North Carolina: Reprinted From the Original Ed. Of 1778
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An Historical Narrative and Topographical Description of Louisiana and West-Florida
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In recognition of his scientific work he was elected April 17, 1772, to membership in the American Philosophical Society.
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