John Hutchings was a nephew by marriage of American slave trader, militia leader, and U.S. president Andrew Jackson. He was Jackson's partner in his general stores, and his slave-trading operation.
Hutchings was Jackson's wife's sister's son
A 21-year-old named William, found in 1820 "with a large iron on his right leg, and trace chain about his neck, locked on by a padlock," claimed his legal owner was John Hutchings of Adams County, "near the White Cliffs." (Note: The other captured slave listed in this ad claimed his legal owner was Isaac Franklin.)
"Uncle Dave Hutchings" The Tennessean, August 14, 1890
Andrew Jackson Hutchings (1815–1841)
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Andrew Jackson Jr. was the adopted son of seventh U.S. president Andrew Jackson. Andrew Jackson Jr., a biological child of Rachel Jackson's brother Severn Donelson and Elizabeth Rucker, was the one ch
John Hutchings (slave trader)
…wish. Andrew and Rachel Jackson traveled to Alabama to sit at Hutchings' deathbed; their trusted slave Hannah Jackson watched the Jacksons' adopted sons Andrew Jackson Jr. and Lyncoya Jackson while they were gone. Hutchings was educated at the Hermitage alongside Andrew Jackson Jr. and Lyncoya Jackson. He joined his cousins…
Portrait by Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl
Andrew Jackson Jr. in childhood, painted by cousin-in-law Ralph Eleazer Whiteside Earl (Ladies' Hermitage Association Collection)
"The Hermitage, Jackson's tomb, and Andrew J. Donelson's residence 12 miles from Nashville, Tennessee. Taken at the spot, March 29, 1856" (Endicott & Co. lithograph, LCCN 2003664953)
Rachel Jackson Lawrence, Jackson's granddaughter, painted during Jackson's presidency