John Hutchinson and three of his brothers (Asa, Jesse, and Judson) dubbed themselves the Hutchinson Family Singers. They gave their first concert in the Baptist Meeting House in Milford, NH, on November 6, 1840, reviewed the following day by "G." for the "Milford Cabinet." They performed again in Lynn the following year. The group sang mostly European songs, such as those by Henry Russell, George F. Root or the Tyrolese Rainers, but Jesse Hutchinson soon quit to write original material and to manage the group's affairs. The remaining three members eventually adopted the name Aeolian Singers. Twelve-year-old Abby Hutchinson, an alto who sang 2nd tenor in the TTBB voicing, took Jesse Hutchinson's place to complete the quartet.