One of five judges in Massachusetts at the time of the American Revolution, he remained loyal to Britain.
[3] He was a younger brother of Loyalist Massachusetts Governor Thomas Hutchinson.
[5] He escaped Boston as a loyalist in 1776 and settled in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
[6] He re-printed examples of rebel propaganda in the local newspaper for which he later was forced to apologize.
[7] He was the father of Foster Hutchinson, also a jurist in Nova Scotia.