Hutto Family Tree DNA Project- Background

Background

Many of us have been searching the Hutto family name for years, and even though we often have a gap in our lines due to the burning of the courthouse in Orangeburg County SC during the Civil War, we all still believe we go back to Isaac Hutto.

The Hutto's had spread out from SC to GA, AL and MS in the earliest days then eventually spread out all over the US.

In my research, the Hutto's have always traced back to SC no matter where I found them or in which census.

Though the Hutto name was spelled in various ways in the early Parish Records of Orangeburg, the name seems to have ended up as Hutto for all lines in the present day. Though Isaac Hutto's name was the earliest occurence of that spelling in the US, it was not the first occurrence of the spelling, which actually occurred in the late 1600's in the Parish records of Cornwall England. This does not mean that the American line was from or even related to the Cornwall line, but it is something that needs further research.

The Hutto records in Cornwall England derived from a french family whose earlier records were listed as Hutteau/Huteau. There were ties between Cornwall England and the Brittany (Bretagne) area of France.

Many of us also believe that our Hutto family, which had previous spellings of Hottow, Huttow, etc., had come to the US from Germany or Switzerland via Rotterdam. By doing this project our dna can put us into a Haplo group. The results can also be compared against other names to see what other families we could be closely related to.