Washington Co. > Land Plats > Hutton Land Locations
This page is intended to identify various land parcels owned by the Hutton families during their first years in Washington County, Virginia. Click on any item in the map list to center the map on that location. Additional information is provided below the map.
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YELLOW: John Hutton acquired 3 contiguous parcels of land on Stalnaker's (later Baker/Thompson/Hutton) Creek in Washington County when he moved his family south from Pennsylvania. On May 8, 1786 he purchased 106 3/4 acres from Humphrey Baker. In Feb. 1788 he purchased the rest of Baker's 430 acre land grant. John added two smaller land grants (129 acres and 50 acres) in Dec. 1792. For a detailed look at John Hutton's land see: Hutton Land on Hutton Creek.
BLUE: James Hutton, John's brother, also settled in Washington County. In Nov. 1785 he bought 250 acres known as "Big Glade" on Cedar Creek from John Fulton (land to the east of Cedar Creek Rd. on the map above). James and Sarah (Dickson) Hutton sold the southern half of their 250 acres to their son Leonard in 1796. James left Leonard the northern half in his will. In Aug. 1818 Leonard and Mary Hutton sold the southern acreage to Arthur McCall and the northern acreage to Obadiah Scott.
James and Sarah Hutton acquired a second parcel directly to the west of their 250 acres on Nov. 10, 1794 and immediately sold it to Samuel Scott.
GREEN: In Oct. 1795 John and Jane (Dixon) Hutton purchased land not far from James and Sarah Hutton (Jane and Sarah were sisters). The surveyor accidently omitted a 15 acre "finger" when he surveyed the tract even though George Gamble, the seller, and John Hutton, the buyer, had intended it as part of the transaction. The error was not discovered when John and Jane sold the land to their son Leonard in August 1797. John Hutton died in 1809; technically the 15 acres was part of his estate. However, on Nov. 8, 1810 John's heirs released their interest in the 15 acres in favor of their brother Leonard who then sold the full 177 acres to George Gamble for $2,150 on Dec. 4, 1820.
FLAG #4 (zoom out or click on #4 in the map menu): Leonard moved his family slightly east and settled on land in what was probably then Wythe County. It may have sat very near the Wythe/Washington County boundary. When Smyth County was created from the eastern part of Washington and the western part of Wythe County in 1832 Leonard's land fell in the middle of Smyth county, slightly southeast of the community of Marion. Leonard's son Edward wrote a will in 1886 deeding 1/2 acre of the land for a graveyard. Leonard had a large family and many of his descendants are buried there.
BROWN: John Beattie, another early settler, owned a huge tract of land immediately to the west of John and Jane Hutton's land. John Beattie divided his land among his sons and sons-in-law, who further subdivided the land. On Sept. 24th, 1820 John and Jane Hutton's son Edward purchased a slice of the original John Beattie land from James and Esther (Fulton) Beattie for $1,500. James Beattie was the son of David Beattie and the grandson of John Beattie.
In the plat above, the lower part of the tract was part of the original John Beattie patent; the "top hat" was additional acreage James Beattie purchased from William and Lucy Stewart in 1805. Edward Hutton does not appear to have bought the land for himself; he already owned part of his father's land on Hutton Creek. Instead, Edward appears to have purchased the Beattie land for his son John. However John chose to migrate west and in 1830 Edward and Sarah (Porterfield) Hutton sold the land to William B. Allison for $1,350. The deed noted that it was the land on which "John Hutton, son of Edward, now lives". William B. Allison built a home on the land which still stands, but rather than being surrounded by fields, the home is now enveloped by the community of Glade Spring.
FLAG #6: One of the intriguing mysteries is the relationship between John and James Hutton above and Moses Hutton. Moses was born abt 1784. He was not named as one of John Hutton's heirs in the 1810 release mentioned above. There is no indication he was a son of James (DNA testing has confirmed Moses Hutton and the Pennsylvania Huttons - John, James, etc. - did not share a common ancestor). Yet Moses owned land adjacent to John Hutton and very near James Hutton. In 1818 Moses was appointed guardian of the children of Margaret (Hutton) Snodgrass following the death of her husband John. Margaret was a daughter of John and Jane Hutton. Moses named his first daughter Eleanor, the name of John and Jane Hutton's eldest daughter, who did not marry. There is an older female present in Moses' household in 1810, 1820 and 1830. Perhaps this was Eleanor as she is not otherwise accounted for.
Moses purchased several small tracts in 1807 from various members of the Snodgrass family. Later he purchased additional land including part of the land Leonard and Nancy Hutton sold to George Gamble in 1820.
For additional information and sources please see the narrative pages for the individuals mentioned above.