Margaret Hutton.

About Margaret Hutton

Margaret Hutton was an early settler colonist in southwestern Pennsylvania and the largest enslaver in the state at the time of the first federal census in 1790. Hutton registered nine people as lifetime slaves in 1780 and sixteen children as term slaves between 1788 and her death in 1797. The 1790 census identified twenty-four enslaved people in her household. Her 1795 last will and testament identified twenty-six enslaved people by name. All told, Hutton enslaved at least thirty-six people during her lifetime.