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Harvey, knight &c.. granted to Lieutenant Robert Hutcheson fifty acres of land in James City county. On November 2, 1642, Sir William Berkeley granted to Captain Robert Hntcheson four hundred and seven- ty-five acres of land in James City county on the Chickahominy river. On December 4. 1643. Sir William Berkeley granted or leased two hundred acres of land in James City county to Captain Robert Hutcheson. P'arty of the second part to pay a yearly rental of eight barrels of merchantable In- dian corn to be delivered at the state house. Sir William Berkeley, governor, granted to William Hatcher and \\'illiam Hutcheson five hundred acres of land in Lancaster county for transportation of ten persons to the colony. On March- 18, 1662. William Berkeley, knight &c.. granted to William Court and Robert Hutcheson six hundred and sixty acres of land in ^^'estmoreland county, Virginia. On October 31, 1664, granted three hundred acres in Lancaster county to William Hutcheson for the trans- portation of six persons to the colony. On October g, 1667, Robert Hutcheson acquired twelve hundred and fifty acres of land in Accomack county for the transportation of twenty-five persons into the colony, and he also acquired twelve hundred and fifty acres of land in Accomack county adjoining the above and situated on Hutcheson's creek, this being acquired on April i, 1678.

The later generations of this family ap- pear to have concentrated in Caroline and Spottsylvania, and on the records of that section are the names of a large number of Hutchesons in a great variety of transac- tions, wills, deeds and leases. The family was represented in Caroline county in the early years of the eighteenth century. Some members of it were certainly in Spottsyl- vania as early as 1736. for in that year William Hutcheson was a witness to the deed of Roderick Price. Among the names appearing on the records between the years 1730 and 1788, in these counties, are: Ar- chibald, Charles, David, Elizabeth, George, Hannah, James, John, John Jr., Margaret, Martha, Mary, Peggy, Phoebe, Robert, Robert Beverley, Ruth. Thomas, \\'illiam, William Jr., Peter. They were well rep- resented in all the Colonial wars. Thomas Hutcheson. of Caroline county, was a sol- dier in the French and Indian war from 1758 to 1760. William Hutcheson was in

an Amelia county company at the same time. David Hutcheson was in Captain Posey's company, and appears later to have settled in Charlotte county. Robert Hutche- son was a sergeant in Captain Claiton's company, which was credited to Botetourt county : this company served at the reduc- tion of Fort Pitt in 1758. William Hutche- son was in Captain Preston's company of rangers. John Hutcheson was in an Au- gusta battalion. Jeremiah Hutcheson was a corporal and Benjamin Hutcheson a pri- vate in Fairfax troop of cavalry in 1756. \\'illiam Hutcheson appears as an active participant in the Indian war, in 1774, which is known in history as Dunmore's war. In the revolutionary struggle, ten soldiers are credited to the Hutchesons : James, of Pow- hatan : John, of Amelia ; William, of Spott- sylvania ; and Charles, John, Joseph, Reu- ben, Thomas, Walter and William, whose counties are not given.

Peter, John, Charles and Richard Hutche- son, brothers, settled in Mecklenburg county, Virginia, between the years 1766 and 1772. Peter Hutcheson came from Caroline county in the fall of 1766; John Hutcheson, who married Elizabeth Chiles, of Caroline county, came from Hanover county in the fall of 1766; Charles Hutche- s(_in purchased a tract of land in Mecklen- burg county on Layton's creek, in 1766, but remained in Caroline county until 1768, when he moved to Louisa county and re- sided there until 1772, then removed to his estate on Layton's creek where he spent the remainder of his years, dying in 1807. He was the oldest person in his community at the time of his death. At the time he settled in Mecklenburg county he also owned a tract of land on the Dan river in Halifax and one on Horse Pen creek in Charlotte county. He married a Miss Col- lier, who bore him three sons : Collier, the progenitor of the present Hutcheson family of Charlotte county, Virginia; John, who never married: Joseph, of whom further.

Joseph Hutcheson married (first) Re- becca Neblett, of Lunenburg countv, Vir- ginia, and (second) Mary Valentine, of Richmond, Virginia. By the first marriage there were three sons and five daughters ; the sons were: i. James K., died in Mis- sissippi territory in 1833, having never mar- ried. 2. Charles Sterling, who represented Mecklenburg county in the house of dele-