# John Garbutt

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For the alderman, see [John Garbutt (alderman)](/source/John_Garbutt_(alderman)).

**John Garbutt** (c.1779 [Northumberland](/source/Northumberland), England – 1855 [Garbutt, New York](/source/Garbutt,_New_York)) was an American [politician](/source/Politician) from [New York](/source/New_York_(state)).

## Life

He was the son of Zachariah Garbutt and Phebe (Nairn) Garbutt. He married Mercy Cady (b. 1788), and they had three children.

John Garbutt was a shoemaker, a [farmer](/source/Farmer), a [surveyor](/source/Surveying) and a politician. He worked at his trade, supervised his farm, surveyed many of the highways of Caledonia and Wheatland, and filled many town offices.[1]

He was Supervisor of the Town of [Caledonia](/source/Caledonia_(town),_New_York) in 1820. On February 23, 1821, the Town of Inverness was separated from Caledonia, but Garbutt—who was English-born—took exception to the Scottish name, and on April 3, 1821, the State Legislature changed the name to [Wheatland](/source/Wheatland,_New_York) thus honoring indirectly Garbutt who ran the local [flour mill](/source/Flour_mill). Garbutt was the first Supervisor of the Town of Wheatland.[1]

He was a member of the [New York State Assembly](/source/New_York_State_Assembly) (Monroe Co.) in [1829](/source/52nd_New_York_State_Legislature).

## Sources

1. Slocum, George E (1908). [*Wheatland, Monroe County, New York : a brief sketch of its history*](https://archive.org/stream/wheatlandmonroec01sloc#page/52/mode/2up). Scottsville, N.Y.: I. Van Hooser. Retrieved 2013-11-11.

- [*The New York Civil List*](https://books.google.com/books?id=E3sFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA208) compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 208 and 275; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)

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