Person:John Button (9)

G-10: John Button of Orange County, 100 acres in Orange County. Surv. Mr. George Hume. In little fork of Rappahannock River, on Negro Run. 11 Dec. 1747. [Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775, Vol. 2, pg. 22].

Information on John Button

John Button acquired 100 acres near the Little Fork colony, John Blankenbaker says he is of German extraction. Surveyor of Little Fork site was George Hume and chain carriers were Frederick Fishback and James Williams. Warrant was 8-6-1747 and survey was 10-8-1747.

Henry Utterback was another member of the colony. In 1747 he received a grant of 200 acres north of the Fishback grant of 1730. It was separated from the Fishback land by 397 acres, originally patented by William Deatherage, an Englishman, but was deeded by Deatherage to Henry Huffman of the Little Fork group in the same year, 1747 (Orange D. B. 11, p.48). Utterback also had a survey for 400 acres jointly with John Button in 1748 (Button, too, being probably and Englishman). This land was divided, and Utterback received his half (198 acres) by patent in 1748.