NOTE: THE FOLLOWING REFERENCES TO REVEREND WILLIAM HUTSON ARE PROVIDED TO SHOW THAT HE IS NOT OUR RELATIVE.
1743: Reverend William Hutson mentioned in land record before he marries Mary Chardon, widow of Isaac Chardon of Charles Town. Note that Mary Chardon was a Woodward, and the Woodwards own land next to William Hutson in the 1752 plat linked below. To better-understand what this record might mean, see DB's discussion of marriage settlements in 18th century SC.
1746: Mary Hutson land grant for 882 acres of surplus on north side of Combahee River in Colleton County. Note that the Combahee only has a "north side" west of Cuckholds Creek, which runs south from White Hall to the Combahee river. Did Mary obtain this grant to reserve Colleton County land legally for her young son William, who might have been from her marriage to Isaac Chardon?
1747: Edmund Bellinger leases and releases 500 acres with William Hutson on the Pocotaligo River. This land and Mr. Hudson (with a "d") are mentioned in a later 1753 record. The Pocotaligo river is near the present-day town of Salkahatchie, suggesting that William Hutson's land extended there from Cuckolds Creek.
1752: on 7/25, William Hutson, clerk of Prince William Parish, identifies his children as Mary, Elizabeth, Richard, William, and Thomas. The son named William will die as a child in 1754. The Stony Creek church is located in Granville County (now Beaufort county)
1752: Rev. William Hutson's land plat for 1000 Acres in Colleton County north of the Combahee (image online on this page ) . This land is adjacent to John Baker, Joseph Blake, Hugh Bryan (William's former employer, and husband of his third wife whom he will marry in 1758). This demonstrates that Rev. William Hutson was associated with land in Colleton County, probably the same land "granted" to his wife in 1746. This appears to be the same land mentioned in the previous grants, between Cuckolds Creek and the Pocotaligo River.
1753: Two plats show McPherson land is between Blake's land and Hutson's land. (Perhaps this is near the present-day towns of Blakes and/or McPhersonville). This also appears next to Askcew and Woodward, demonstrating that this is all Reverend William Hutson's land, and probably land associated with the Woodwards.
1753: John Askcew Colleton Co. has land next to Mr. Hutson, presumably the Reverend.
1753: Another 1000 acre land grant for William Hudson (with a "d").. This man might not be related to the Reverend, and the land might be in a different location. However, it is probably just an official grant of some kind for the Reverend William 1000 acre plat mentioned above in 1752. One "tongue-in-cheek" theory is that he faked them out by getting another 1000 acres under a modified name.
1757: According to the International Genealogical Index entry, Rev. William Hutson leaves the Beaufort/Colleton county area to work at the Circular church in Charleston (where he and both wives are now buried). He would presumably take his sons Richard (b. 1748) and Thomas (b. 1750) who are young.

1759: William Hutson plat for 120 acres in Colleton County. St. Bartholomews parish near Cuckold creek. The Reverend is still alive, and he has just married Mary Bryan in October of 1758. Is the reverend here placing a claim to all that's left from the Woodward/Chardon land that his deceased wife originally owned before their marriage? What happened to the original 1000 acres? Perhaps most of it was sold off or traded for something else. We know that the Reverend raised his family at "Cedar Grove" plantation, just east of Pocotaligo, SC.
1759: Mary Bryan and Francis Pelot give William Hutson 800 acres in Granville County as marriage articles. (this is Reverend William, who then married Mary Bryan, widow of his close friend and former employer Hugh Bryan)
1760: William Hutson, more claims in Granville County on Pocotaligo River. This appears as though it might be related to the 1747 record near Pocataligo River. Perhaps this is to merge William's lands with the lands previously owned by Hugh and Mary Bryan. William Hutson is now married to the widowed Mary Bryan. He appears to have extensive land holdings on both sides of the Combahee near present-day Yemassee, SC.
1761: Richard and Mary Hutson mentioned in land memorial for Daniel Heyward. A subsequent record for this same Daniel Heyward refers to the land recorded for William Hutson in 1753. Blakes, Woodwards, and Wrights present here. Cypress Swamp and Wannels Creek mentioned. This may also be the Reverend's land, although the Reverend will reportedly die suddenly in 1761. Richard goes on to become a famous judge, apparently does not stay in Colleton County. Richard does not have any legal or documented children. Thomas fathers several sons and likely has living male descendants today through his sons Richard Hutson (1789-1866) and William Maine Hutson (1777-1835). The autobiography of William Colcock (Google) details these two families, which result in sons named William Ferguson, Woodward, Charles, Macleod, and Marion (from Richard's two marriages), and Thomas, William, and Isaac (from William Maine Hutson).

William Hutson, land owner in Colleton County in 1752 

The following excerpt is from the the autobiography of John Colcock:

My mother was born November 23, 1774. As a have previously said my mother's name was Mary Woodward Hutson. She was born at Cedar Grove in Prince William's Parish on the 23rd of November 1774. Her parents were Thomas Hutson and Esther whose maiden name was Esther Maine. Her paternal grandfather was Rev. William Hutson (1) a sketch of whose life may be seen in Dr. Howe's "History of the Presbyterian Church in S. Carolina." As that book may not be accessible to the readers of this biography I will here repeat much of what is there said. 

The Rev. William Hutson emigrated from England in the year 1740 and finally settled in Prince William's Parish (now Beufort County), and became the Pastor of the "Congregational" church at Stoney Creek. He was twice married, first to the widow Mary Chardon, who was a Woodward and whose mother was a Stanyarne and next to the widow Mary Bryan, Oct. 11 1758, by whom he had no children. She died July 1760 of Small Pox. By the widow "Chardon" he had two sons, Thomas and Richard and four daughters to wit Ann, Esther,Elizabeth and Mary. 

He was called from Stoney Creek Church to the "Circular" Church in Charleston. At that time he was residing at Cedar Grove which property he acquired by his marriage with the widow Bryan and which was the family residence of some branch of the Hutson family until burnt by U.S. troops in 1865. 

He died whilst in charge of the ???? Church in the year 1861 and was buried in the church yard of that church where his grave may still be seen with an inscription in Latin written by his son Richard "the Chancellor" of whom I will speak hereafter. See Appendix for this inscription. 

I have said that the Rev. William Hutson first married the widow Chardon. This lady must have been a woman of much talent and exceedingly impressionable feelings. During Whitfield's visit to this country in the year 17[ ] she became extremely exercised on the subject of her spiritual condition and after many bitter conflicts she became a subject of divine grace and a warm ardentand enthusiastic Christian. We have some memorials of her still in the family, one in print and the other in manuscript. The first is a collection of letters in a little volume entitled "Living Christianity." These letters were written by Mrs. Hutson and others to friends in England. The manuscript is a diary copied exclusively to a narration of her religious experiences. She mentioned in one place that her husband went to England on a visit in 175[ ]. 

I well remember when I was a little boy about eight or nine years of age my mother used to send me and my brothers Charles and Richard every Sunday upstairs to our chamber to read "Living Christianity" understanding very little of it . I thought it extremely dry reading. The first letter in the book was addressed to Mrs. Hugh Bryan and my brother Richard, who was about seven or eight years old, would lean back in his chair against the bed and commence in solemn tones the announcement "Letters from Mrs. Huge Bryan to Mrs. Berg."

I had a copy of the little volume in my library until a recent period but regret that I have lost it. My mother died in Charleston on the 25th day of November 1851 aged 77 years and 2 days. 

Dr. Ramsay in his "History of S.C." says of Rev William Hutson:
He was an eloquent preacher, an exemplary Christian and an accomplished gentleman" 

Mr. Simpson who wrote a book on South Carolina says of him:
" He has left few such behind him in this Province."

MMy mother's father, Thomas Hudson [was] born Jan. 9th 1750. The Rev. William Hutson left, as I have said before, six children, two sons Richard and Thomas and four daughters Anne, Mary, Elizabeth, and Esther. Richard Hudson pursued the study of Law and became one of the first three Chancellors elected by the Legislature of South Carolina. Chancellor De Saussure in the 1st Volume of his Equity Report page 107 says:

The first sitting of the Count of Chancery elected by the act of the Legislature of the ?? day of March 1784 was held at Charleston on the 14th day of June 1784 and was continued for several days successively. There were present the three judges who had been then recently elected by the Legislature: John Rutledge, Richard Hutson, and John Mathews. Chancellor Hutson never married. He was possessed of a handsome fortune most of which he lost during the Revolutionary War. He had large quantities of Constitutional money. In my youth I have seen much of this money in the possession of my uncle William Maine Hutson at Cedar Grove. He was a member of Congress in March 1778 before the adoption of the Constitution. See Volume 12, "Writings of Washington" page 425. He was also President of the City of Charleston in the year 1783. See Appendix for some of his letters. /span>

The daughters of the Rev. William Hutson above named married as follows:

Ann married Gen. John Barnwell 

Mary married Arthur Persouneau 

ElEliza married Isaac Hayes "The Martyr" 

Esther married William Haggard Wigg.

The other son Thomas , my mother's father, married as I have previously stated Esther Maine, the daughter of James Maine who reside at "Jericho" in Prince William's Parish which place is still in the possession of the family of my mother's brother Richard Hutson, deceased 1877. Thomas Hutson above named, my grandfather died on May 12 1759 at the early age of 39. He left three sons and two daughters: William, Thomas, Richard, Mary my mother and Hetty who married Alexander Fraser Gregorie (2). He must have been, tho[sic] so young, a man of high character, intelligence and influence. He was intrusted with several important public duties at a time of great interest. He was Colonel of a Regiment of State troops appointed by Gov. Mathews to drive out a band of outlaws from their fast hold in Savannah River and was also appointed one of the Commissioners to run the boundary line between Georgia and South Carolina. The family lived at "Cedar Grove" and when a boy I have heard my grandmother (his widow) say that on one occasion the British approached their residence and suddenly that she had barely time to bundle up the children and put them in the chaise to get out of the way of the enemy. In the hurry of the moment tho[sic] youngest child Richard was forgotten and left upstairs for a while before they remembered him and brought him down.