Hutchinson (Thomas) is born in Boston.

The son of Thomas and Sarah (Foster) Hutchinson and great-great-grandson of Anne Hutchinson, Thomas Hutchinson graduates from Boston Latin School and Harvard College, marries Sarah Sanford in 1734, lives in Boston at 5 Garden Court Street, and builds a country home in Milton. He serves in the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1737-1749), on the Council (1749-1766), as lieutenant governor (1758-1771), chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court (1761-69), acting governor and governor of Massachusetts (1770-74), and writes a history of the colony that is published beginning in 1764.* Hutchinson leaves Boston on August 1, 1774, and advocates for a more conciliatory policy toward the Colonies when he returns to England, where he dies on June 3, 1780.