HUTSON, Richard, jurist, born in Prince William's parish, South Carolina, 12 June, 1747; died in Philadelphia, PA., in 1793. He was graduated at Princeton in 1765, and practised law in Charleston, South Carolina, till the beginning of the Revolution. He was a member of the Continental congress from South Carolina in 1774, 1776, and 1778, and in the latter year, with other patriots, was imprisoned and sent to St. Augustine by the British under Sir Henry Clinton. At the close of the war, during which his considerable estate had been seriously impaired, he completed his financial ruin by taking payment in continental currency for money that was due him, hoping, by his example, to improve the government credit. He was intendant of Charleston under its first charter in 1783-'8, became chancellor in 1784, senior judge of the chancery court in 1791, and was a member of the convention that ratified the Federal constitution in 1788.