John Hutton was born 8 Mar 1764 OakshawEastAssocCong, Paisley, Scotland. By trade he was a weaver. John married Tabitha Haskins in New York state about 1792. They went from Putnam Twp, Washington Co NY to Wolford ON in May 1798.and he was awarded land in Upper Canada on the claim that his father William Hutton was a spy for the British during the American Revolution. As indicated in Alice Hughes' Collection, documentation of this land petition is available from National Library and Archives in Ottawa.

As recalled by Henry Wilkinson Hutton, "My grandfather John Hutton migrated with his family from White Hall on the shore of Lake Champlain New York State, in some of the years following the Declaration of Independence 1776-1779 one of those noble U.E. Loyalist groups. He drew Government land on west side of Rideau River opposite Edwards Rapids, where my father Wm Hutton was born 1799...My grandfather perished in the waters of the Rideau near Kilmarnock and I have not been able to locate the place of burial but presume it is in an old cem [missing piece of page.rw] on the farm of John Willoughby quite near the location of the family house at the lock."

Henry Wilkinson Hutton also recalled that, "My grandmother Tabitha moved the family to a small farm two miles southEast of Maitland's Rapids (Kilmarnock) where later she married McIntyre and at her death was buried in Wolford Cem."

Salmon McIntyre was Tabitha's second husband. Taken from the transcription L and G Publication #92-4, Wolford and Montague Census, Tabitha Hutton/McIntyre appears in Wolford in 1802, and then across the Rideau in Montague 1805, 1807. In 1817 she was back in the Wolford census, still with many of her children in tow, including William Hutton age 18. Together, Tabitha and Salmon McIntyre had one daughter, Lucy, who later married a McGrath.

Interesting sidenote:
Tabitha's parents, Joseph Haskins (1745-1823) and Elizabeth (1744-1833) took in four girls from the Squires family after the parents died. The girls were Elizabeth, Abigail, Mary Ann and Rachel. Elizabeth (1797-1880) eventually married William Smith, and their daughter Rebecca (1818-1906) married William Jones (1815-1908), which eventually leads to the Baker, Tuck and Weekes family.