Harvey Rexford Hitchcock (March 13, 1800 – August 25, 1855) was an early Protestant missionary to the Kingdom of Hawaii from the United States.

[1] His younger brother George B. Hitchcock (1812–1872) also became a minister, and was active in the American abolitionism movement known as the Underground Railroad.

[2] He married Rebecca Howard (1808–1890) on August 26, 1831, in Auburn, New York, and sailed on November 26 to the Hawaiian Islands, as part of the fifth company from the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.

His sister Elizabeth Hitchcock (1802–1857) arrived 3 years later and in 1836 married missionary printer Edmond Horton Rogers (1806–1853).

He took a short scouting mission around the island in the summer of 1832, and in September held the first Christian service in the open air.

By June 19, 1833, with the assistance of Lowell Smith (1802–189), a thatched hut was chartered as the first church in an area called Kaluaʻaha.

[8] The small congregation maintains the site,[9] and on September 27, 2009, had a rededication ceremony under a temporary corrugated metal roof.