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Rev. Aaron Hutchinson (1722-1800) was born in Hebron, Connecticut and graduated from Yale in 1747. Hutchinson was ordained at the Church of Christ in Grafton, Massachusetts in 1750. He married Margery Carter and they had ten children. He served as the minister in Grafton until 1772, later moving to Pomfret, Vermont. In Vermont, which was at that time a disputed territory claimed by New Hampshire and New York, Hutchinson preached to newly formed congregations in Pomfret, Woodstock, and Hartford. In July 1777, he delivered a sermon to the convention of delegates assembled at Windsor to vote on Vermont’s new state constitution. According to his biographer, Hutchinson preached a sermon during the Revolutionary War in which he prayed for God to “send a Tempest” to drown the Hessian soldiers at sea before they could reach Vermont. In addition to his ministry, he was a classical scholar and tutored students in Greek and Latin at his home. He died in 1800.

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