Hutchison Family

1. Andrew Hutchison b. 13 Mar 1687, London, England, m. ca. 1710, Jane Browning, b. Nomini Forest, Westmoreland Co., VA, (daughter of Thomas Browning and Elizabeth). Andrew died c1760, Loudoun Co., VA, buried: VA. Andrew was of British ancestry. Some researchers believe that he was the son of John Hutchison who died in Northampton County, VA in 1689. His mother, Ann, left no records to which we can refer so we are unable to substantiate this. We can find her will in Richmond County, VA in Will Bk 5, dated 18 Apr 1735, prov. 7 Mar 1736. In her will, she names her son Andrew and her grandson Thomas Hutchison. From her will it appears that Andrew was her only son from her first husband who died when Andrew was no more than 2 years old. His mother’s second husband was Jeffry Reynolds/Raynolds of Richmond Co., VA, and they had 4 children. In 1727, Andrew inherited 2 plantations, totaling over 400 acres, from Thomas Browning, his father-in-law. One of these was Nomini Forest, Westmoreland Co., VA. The other, according to Browning’s will, (Will Bk 8-1, p. 210), dated 31 Jan 1726, prov. 22 Feb 1726, “ye plantation whereon ye sd. Andrew Hutchison now lives.” The exact location of this plantation is not known but believed to have been on or near Rocky Run in the area of Centreville, VA. Just 6 months earlier, on 18 Aug 1726, Andrew received his land grant of 1119 acres and 40 perches in Stafford Co., VA, (now Fairfax Co., VA), from the Rt. Hon. Thomas, 6th Lord Fairfax, who was proprietary agent for King George III of England at the time. Andrew was a Justice of the Peace from 1745 to 1757, a tobacco farmer, tobacco inspector and a surveyor. In 1744 he was appointed a Vestryman of Truro Parish. His records as Vestryman can be found in Pohick, the central church for the Parish. While serving in that position, he deeded land for the building of Rocky Run Church. They couldn’t find water on this land so it was deeded back to him and the church was built on land belonging to his neighbor, Willouby Newton, another prominent landholder in the Centreville area. During the 1740’s and ‘50’s, Andrew bought an additional 1000 acres of land in Loudoun and Fairfax Counties which he deeded to his sons, Joseph and Benjamin. Before his death in 1760, Andrew divided his original land grant of 1119 acres and 40 perches among his other 3 sons, John, Daniel and Jeremiah. The John Hutchison House at Pleasant Valley, VA, sits on the portion deeded to John. Jeremiah’s portion is now part of the Pleasant Valley Estates subdivision. The last family to live in Jeremiah’s house was Andrew’s great-grandson, Joshua Hutchison and his family. Joshua died in 1931. Both of these houses have been restored. He documents his and Jane's children in Bible Records, carrying the date of MDCCXXXVIII, (1738) and published by the Oxford Company, John Baskett. Family legend states that Andrew and Jane gave each of their children a bible in which the names and birth dates of their children were written. Andrew’s personal bible, printed in 1591, was last known to have been in the possession of Rev. Melvin Lee Steadman of Purcellville, VA. He was a Methodist minister, genealogist, historian and author. He also collected old Bibles. He told Wanda Kirpatrick that Mrs. Harry Padgett of Pleasant Valley, VA, gave Andrew’s Bible to him. She was the g-g-granddaughter of Andrew’s son, Jeremiah. She was known as “Cousin Ridey”. Rev. Steadman is said to have willed his possessions, including the Bible, to the University of VA. He said that the Bible contained handwritten entries of which appeared to him to be some form of shorthand. He sent copies of this Bible to the American Bible Society and to the Ancient English Department of Stanford University in California with a request that it be deciphered. They responded to him by saying that this writing appeared to be a mixture of both addy shorthand and an ancient form of personal shorthand, which neither of them could decipher. His death date is documented in his last Deed of Gifts to his sons, dated 10 Apr. 1760.

2. John Hutchison b. 8 Mar 1712, Westmoreland Co., VA, m. Rosamond Hampton. John died c1800, Pleasant Valley, Fairfax Co., VA. His will is found in Fairfax Co., VA Will Book, H-1, p90, dated 7 Jun 1799 and proven in 1800. He was listed on the Tithable Lists for Loudoun Co., VA from 1760-1785;the Tax Lists for 1786-1792 (Loudoun Co., VA); Fairfax Co. Tax Lists for 1798-99, and listed as alone, with 3+1 slaves in 1798, and 4 slaves in 1799. (See Tithe Tables in this document). Rosamond: Not sure of the last name. John built his home sometime between 1740 and 1750 on his father’s land, and on 9 Aug 1759, his father deeded 350 acres of his 1119 acre tract to John. This grant included 3 slaves, Charles, Set and Rachel. The house was built on what is now called Braddock Rd, but then called “Mountain Road” because it ran a straight line with the mountains to the west. Historians have determined that this house is one of the few 18th Century houses still standing in the county and is the only one made of brick. It predates Sully by 40 years! The original house was built in 2 stages. The cellar consists of 3 rooms; each 12’ X 20’ and the stone foundation walls between the rooms are 24 inches thick. The floor joists are hand-hewn and joined with wooden pegs. The original plank flooring is throughout the house. Originally, this house had only 4 rooms, 2 downstairs, separated by a central hall and the two upstairs. In the late 1700’s-early 1800’s, and addition of a dining room and kitchen was added to the eats wing of the house. There are 3 chimneys and a fireplace for each room with exception of the dining room. At the edge of the backyard and away from the house was a small building that had been a summer kitchen, originally made of logs, and later surfaced over with planks. To the west were several structures, all built with hand-hewn timbers. There were 1 or 2 that might have been slave quarters. On the property were a wagon shed and a schoolhouse where the Hutchison children as well as neighboring children attended school. The last schoolteacher was herself a Hutchison descendant, Zenella Moss Miller, wife of George Miller and granddaughter of Melville Hutchison. Melville was the grandson of John’s brother, Jeremiah. All of these buildings were destroyed when the property was sold. There is a family cemetery near the rear of the house and contains many graves, only 2 can be identified, those of Richard Major, Rev. Who was born in 1722, died 1796, and his wife, Sarah, born in 1723, died 1807. Their daughter, Sarah Major, was the wife of Andrew Hutchison, the eldest son of John and Rosamond. Lee Sammis Corporation, a developer of business parks, purchased the property in the early 1980’s with headquarters in California. The house was beautifully restored and was the central point of LaFayette Business Park, where it was being used as a visitors center and conference center. The Sammis Corp. named the park LaFayette because of a story that the Marquis de LaFayette spent the night in the house on his return from Leesburg, where Gen. George Washington had sent him. In an article which appeared in a Chantilly newspaper, The Times, Wednesday, 25 Aug 1993, entitled “The Hutchison House Faces Unclear Future”, Holly Gibson reports that when Sammis went bankrupt, the house fell into the hands of Wells Fargo Bank, a California based bank. The property and home was purchased by a developer, Steve Brett in mid-1990’s, and has been restored as his office spaces. (Information provided by a manuscript of Mrs. Wanda Kirkpatrick, daughter of Harry Fitzhugh Hutchison, and 4th great-granddaughter of Andrew Hutchison).

Below is a picture of John Hutchison's house.

3. Samuel Hutchison b. 8 Apr 1758, Pleasant Valley, Fairfax Co., VA, m. Martha Moss, b. 1763, d. 4 Dec 1828, Fairfax Co., VA, buried: Pleasant Valley, Fairfax Co., VA. Samuel died 11 Dec 1814, Fairfax Co., VA, buried: Pleasant Valley, Fairfax Co., VA. His will is located in the Fairfax Co., VA, Will Book, pg.269 and is dated Dec 1814, and probated 20 Mar 1815. (_The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy_, p.24). (_The Genealogies of Virginia Families_, Vol. 3). (_Fairfax Will Bk P_, p. 250). Martha is possibly the daughter of John Moss of Greenspring Farm in Fairfax Co., VA. According to his will, he left some slaves to his daughter “Patty” as well as other daughters. He called her Martha in another legal document in Fairfax Co., VA in the late 1700’s.

4. Harriet Hutchison b. 31 Oct 1799, Pleasant Valley, Fairfax Co., VA, ref: Death Reg., m. 1818, in Fairfax, VA, Thomas William Lee, b. ca. 1789, The Hermitage, Fairfax Co., VA, (son of Lancelot Lee and Mary Bathurst Jones) d. Oct 1841, Fairfax Co., VA. Harriet died 29 Aug 1868, The Hermitage, Fairfax Co., VA. Died of Typhoid. (_The Beverley Family of Virginia_, by John McGill, p.770). (_The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy_, p.24). Thomas's death date is listed in the Frying Pan Bap.Ch. Minutes. (_Parish Records, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Haymarket, Va_, p.88). (_Lee of Virginia_, by Edmund Jenings Lee, MD, 1895; p.304).

Below is a photo of "The Hermitage", Fairfax Co., VA. Home of Thomas William Lee & Harriet Hutchison.

5. Mary Elizabeth Jones Lee b. 3 Apr 1819, The Hermitage, Fairfax Co., VA, m. 23 Nov 1840, in Fairfax, VA, George Washington Millan, b. 19 Nov 1820, Locust Grove, Fairfax Co., VA, (son of George Millan, Sr. Capt. and Ann DeBell) occupation Chief Justice, d. 1876, Fairfax Co., VA. Mary died 29 Mar 1844, Fairfax Co., VA (_The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy_, p.24). George: Son of George Millan, dec. (Lane v Millan CFFR 59V (1844)). Widower of Mary, the daughter of Thomas W. Lee. Their daughters received $139.50 from the sale of slaves owned by John T. Lee, dec. (Lee v Lee CFF #98Y [1846]). In 1854 had a store on the Little River Tpk, with Benjamin Spindle. Lived a mile from Centreville until 1859, when he moved to Alexandria about Aug. 1st. (Spindle v Gooding CFF #84FF [1859]). William Horton, 23, colored, son of George W. Millan, white, and Eliza Horton, mulatto, marr. Hester Brooks, 31 Dec 1876, Mar. Cert.

6. Mary Jones Millan b. 19 Mar 1844, The Hermitage, Fairfax, VA, m. 27 Nov 1866, in The Hermitage, William David McWhorter, MD, b. 27 Dec 1838, Pontotoc, Mississippi, (son of William McWhorter, Rev. and Margaret McElroy Kyle) occupation surgeon, d. 20 Feb 1895, Washington, DC. Mary died 5 Mar 1895, Washington, DC. Married at the residence of Mrs. Thomas Lee, William D. McWhorter, physician, 27, born in MS and resident of SC, son of William and Margaret McWhorter; to Mary J. Millan, 22, born in Fairfax Co., daughter of George W. and Mary J. Millan. Married on 27 Nov 1866. (Marriage registers). Born on 27 Dec 1838, he was a physician in the 1st SC Rifles during the war. Met Mary Jones Millan of The Hermitage after the Battle of Ox Hill. (Henriques: 72, 76) William: He received his medical degree from Medical College of South Carolina in 1860 (diploma was signed by Jefferson Davis). In 1861 he enlisted in the SC CSA as a surgeon to Company A, first South Carolina Rifles, commanded by Capt. William Livingston. Soon after, at Sandy springs (Anderson Co., SC) he was detailed by Col. James L. Orr to the medical staff of his regiment ("Orr's rifles") for the duration of the war. He founded the Fairfax County Medical Society and became its first President.

7. Pinckney Lee McWhorter b. 14 Jun 1875, Fairfax, VA, occupation Stone mason, m. 1 Jan 1903, in SC, Harriotte "Hattie" Lee Turberville, b. 4 Jul 1881, Leeton, Chantilly, VA, (daughter of George Richard Lee Turberville II and Adeline Stuart Thornton) d. 29 Dec 1962, Arlington, VA, buried: Leeton Turberville Cemetery. Pinckney died 19 Aug 1949, Garfield Hospital, Fairfax, VA, buried: Leeton Turberville Cemetery.

8. George Turberville McWhorter, Sr, b. 11 Aug 1906, Fairfax Co., VA, d. 28 Dec 1975, Washington, DC, m. May 1930, Rockville, MD, Mary Nell Dismukes, b. 20 Mar 1908, Cumberland Furnace, TN, d. 28 Dec 1976, Inverness, FL, (daughter of Grover Cleveland and Mary Madeline (Bowers) Dismukes).

9. Mary Madeline McWhorter b. Washington, DC, m. 25 Aug 1951, in Washington, DC William Raymond Brown, Jr. b. Lignum, VA, (son of Willie Raymond and Clara Maude (Johnson) Brown, Sr.).

10. Patricia Lynn Brown b. Great Lakes, Ill Naval Hospital, m. (2) 19 Sep 1993, Elkton, VA Morris Carroll Petitt, II b. (son of Morris Carroll and Ruby Regina (Corbin) Petitt, I).