Joseph Hutton (playwright)

[1] After leaving the theater world, what he did is said in some sources to be unclear, but he appears to have moved to New Bern, North Carolina in 1823, where he taught, and also contributed to the local newspaper.

[3][4] Though never lauded for his work, Hutton was considered to be among the notable American playwrights of the early 19th century.

[5] And in 1829, critic Samuel Kettell wrote that Hutton's "writings seldom rise above mediocrity, but many of his productions are agreeable.

"[1] In 1918, Perley Isaac Reed listed Hutton as one of a group of five he called the best American playwrights of 1805–15, albeit during an era when homegrown plays were disfavored in America as compared to English works.

[6] In 1925, Volume 2 of Representative Plays by American Dramatists by Montrose Jonas Moses, covering the years 1815–1858, was published.