[3] While in Portsmouth, at the end of the Revolutionary War, Mitchell accompanied French surgeon Dr. Meaubec aboard a 74-gun ship that was sent as a gift to Louis XVI in Brest, France.

[6] They had twelve children: Charles C., David Meaubec, William C., Gardner, Elizabeth G., Jacob, Tristram G., Phebe, Sarah J., Narcissa B., Lucretia Loring and Francis B.

[9] He was an important part of the 1796 construction of Union Wharf at what became the busy shipbuilding harbor in today's Yarmouth.

[2] In 1803, he was elected a deacon at the Old Ledge Meetinghouse, where Tristram Gilman was 34 years into his 40-year tenure as fourth pastor.

After Hitchcock's death in 1837, the town sought out Eleazer Burbank, who had been practicing in Poland, Maine, for around two decades, to fill the vacancy.