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DUTTON, Thomas
1621 - 1686 (64 years) 
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Name DUTTON, Thomas Birth 6 Oct 1621 Dutton, Great Budworth, Cheshire, England 
Christening 6 Oct 1623 Frodsham, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England Gender Male Burial Jan 1686 Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Death 22 Jan 1686 Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States WAC 9 Nov 1921 MANTI _TAG Reviewed on FS Headstones 
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Father DUTTON, John , b. 5 Oct 1598, Sherborne, Gloucestershire, England Sherborne, Gloucestershire, Englandd. 4 May 1693, Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States (Age 94 years) Mother NIELD, Mary , b. 1599, Sherborne, Dorset, England Sherborne, Dorset, Englandd. 1627, Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States (Age 28 years) Marriage Abt 1620 England Family ID F17361 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Father DUTTON, Knight John , b. 30 Nov 1648, Overton by Frodsham, Cheshire, England Overton by Frodsham, Cheshire, Englandd. 4 May 1693, Aston Mills, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States (Age 44 years) Mother NEALD, Mary , b. 1650, England England Family ID F17360 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 PALMER, Susanna , b. 1626, Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesd. 27 Aug 1684, Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States (Age 58 years) Marriage 1647 Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States 
Children5 sons and 4 daughters Family ID F14877 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 24 Jan 2022
Family 2 HOOPER, Ruth , b. 15 Apr 1653, Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesd. 21 Nov 1688, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States (Age 35 years) Marriage 10 Nov 1684 Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States [1] Family ID F17363 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 24 Jan 2022
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Notes - Not Proven - William and John Dutton immigrated to the Colonies and John married Mary Darlington, Elizabeth Rayton, Mary Neald possibly. John Dutton's father was Ralph Dutton born about 1555 from Gloucestershire, England. His Grandfather was William Button whose wife was Agnes Conway of Flintshire (her parents were John and Agnes Conway of Gloucestershire, England - this goes to Royalty). William Dutton's father was Ralph Dutton and his grandfather was Richard Dutton. BIRTH: Also shown as Born Cheshire, Cheshire, England. BIRTH: Also shown as Born 1621 DEATH: Also shown as Died 22 Jan 1687
Thomas Dutton and his wife Susanna were in Reading by the year 1651 when their eldest daughter and second child, Mary, was born. According to a deposition made in 1668 Thomas and family lived in "Reading for the Space of Seven yeares or Thereabouts" before moving to Woburn where they were said to "having lived amongst us in the Towne of Woburne nere the space of tenne yeare." That would put the Dutton's in Woburn by the year 1658 which accords well with the birth records of both Reading and Woburn. The last child of Thomas and Susana born in Reading was in 1656 and the first child in Woburn in 1659. Thomas did not receive an allotment in the 1652 distribution of lots in Reading but he did get a piece of meadow in the 1655 distribution of meadow "downe below the falls".
In Woburn, Thomas rented a "dwelling house Barne orchard together with all the meddow & uppland there unto apertayning". The lease, signed on December 17, 1656, ran for seven years from the following February 15 at £7 per year to be paid in wheat, rye and indian corn. The rent was to be delivered to the house of John Carter who lived next door. Both John Carter's farm and the one leased by Thomas Dutton had originally belonged to Carter's father, Thomas, who, in 1647, divided his property between his son John and his son-in-law William Greene. After Greene's death, his widow married Thomas Browne who soon began complaining of encroachments by Carter upon the property. A neighbor later remembered that "goodwife browne and her husband tould mee that they had thoughts to remove their hows beecose of this desturbance." The overseers of Greene's will, Edward Johnson and John Carter, leased the farm to Dutton in the name of Greene's children and heirs.
By 1658 Thomas Dutton was embroiled in a court case against John Carter, having accused him of moving the boundary stakes between the two properties and building a shed and an extension of his house on the land so gained. Testimony in the case indicates that several neighbors gathered on the disputed property to consider Dutton's charges. He indicated a fence and charged "This tow rayle fence standeth upon the [Greene's] childrens land." Insisting that Dutton's charges were false, John Carter pointed out a boundary marker as proof that the boundary was just asserting "this stake is the towns." The deponent, William Johnson, looked at the stake but was unconvinced: "noe said I this can not bee it for here it is surlee newly [ ] and that it would not be if it had stood soe many years." His father agreed and further noted that "it did not [ ]aing even with the barne and th[at] it shold doe if it were the stake."
Johnson described his next move: "then I having a sticke in my hand serched up and downe upon t[ ] and at last the sticke went in to the ould stake hole as wee all did judge it being couered almost with” dirt.
"I doe bee leve that this is the ould stake hole [ ] even with the barne," exclaimed another neighbor, "and had I not seene him serch up an downe with the sticke and it went in [ ] un awars I shold not have beeleived it: for the ground was hard all about it."
"Then says Thomas Dutton [the other] is here about and serching finds one put upin acorner amongst potts." Another man took the stake from Thomas and "put it into the hole and it filled and fitted it very well." From which evidence they deduced Thomas' charges to be true.
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Thomas Dutton Defends his Reputation
Thomas Dutton, Sr. (1619-1687) was born in Cheshire, England.
He lived in Reading, MA until 1657, then in Woburn, MA (1658-68), and then removed to Billerica, MA in 1669 where he was listed still living with his sons Thomas, Jr. and John in 1775. He came to New England in 1630 and to Woburn, MA in 1662. He was a farmer. In 1661, he was convicted of beating his wife, Susannah, though both denied it. (Susannah, some say Palmer -- 1626-? b. Reading, MA and m. 1647 in Billerica, MA). He married a second time, Ruth Hooper Marshall (b. 1653 and m. 10 Nov 1684 in Billerica, MA).
Middlesex County Court Records (vol 1, pg. 239 - 1668) give an account of an action of slander against Michael Bacon, Jr. who had accused Thomas, Sr. of being a thief. Twenty two citizens of Reading testified that Dutton had "lived amongst us in the Towne of Reeding for the space of 7 years thereabouts." In addition to theft Bacon had asserted that Dutton had been notorious in the town of Reading. In the trial Dutton presented an endorsement, signed by 22 citizens of Reading, that he had lived there seven years and had been held of good character and not been known to take anything not rightfully his. There was also a statement signed by 15 residents of Woburn (including -- Josias convars, William Johnson, Mathew Johnson, James convars, Samuel Convars, John Broockes, Thomas Peirce, Samuell Walker, John Russell, Henry Broockes, Isack Broockes, Edward Win, Richard Gardner, John Russell, and John Carter) stating that Dutton had lived there "near ten years" and had been held in good repute. He won the suit. He was accepted as an inhabitant of Bellerica 20 Nov 1669.
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Susannah Palmer, wife of Thomas Dutton
Susannah Palmer was born about 1626 at Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. She died 27 May 1684 (See alternate date 1688 from profile at Billerica, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. She married Thomas Dutton at Reading about 1647, evidenced by the birth of her first child, son Thomas, September 14, 1648 at Reading (Cutter, v1, 195). Her father was John Palmer.
SOURCES FOR SUSANNAH PALMER:
1. Dutton, Richard, Col, Dick Duttons Master File, World Connect Project, Ancestry.com/Rootsweb/ dickdutton.
2. Broderbund Software, Inc., World Family Tree Vol. 3, Ed. 1, Release date: February 9, 1996,
BIRTH:
3. Bennett, Archibald F.,"The Ancestory of Joseph Smith the Prophet." The Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine, Windsor, April, 1929, page 62. Thomas Dutton, son of John Dutton, married 1st Susannah born abt 1626.
DEATH:
4. Bennett, Archibald F. "The Ancestory of Joseph Smith the Prophet." The Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine, Windsor, April, 1929, page 62, No. 16. Susannah Dutton died 27 Aug 1684 at age 58 in Billerica, Massachusetts.
5. Cutter, William Richard, New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial, Volume I, New York, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913, page 195, Book, film. Susannah died August 27, 1684 (at Billerica).
INFORMATION AS TO PALMER COMES FROM JUDITH DUTTON LADD. DicksFile.GED, ;Tracy Genealogy.; Submitter: Frank W. Bouley III, 197 Elm Ave.; Teaneck, NJ 07666; 201-836-5486
CHALLENGES: The source of any evidence that Susannah had a birth surname of Palmer has not been easy to find; Dick's file states that it came from Frank Bouley in New Jersey.
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Terror and Alarm
History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts Vol II Cities and Towns pg328
As a result of the alarm on 3 May 1675 due to fear and actual indian attacks during King Philip's War. The Town of Billerica formed a town meeting:
"13. 6m. 75. AT a publick Towne Meeting.
"The Towne, considering the providence of God at the present calling us to lay aside our ordinary occations in the providing for our creatures and to take special care for the preserving of our lives and the lives of our wives and children, the enemy being near and the warnings by Gods providence upon our neighbors being very solemne and awfull,do therefore order & and agree joyntly to prpare a place of safety for women and children, and that all persons and teams shall attend ye said worke untill it be finished: and account of ye wholl charge being kept, it shalbe equally devided upon the inhabitants with other town charges. Also they appoint Serjnt ffoster, Serjnt Thompson, Samll Manning & Jonathan Danford to be overseers of ye same."
"8. 8m. 75 At a meeting of ye selectmen & comittee of millitia.
" In pursuance of an order from the Hond Conncill, sent unto them by warrant from ye worshphll Simon Willard Esquir, Serjnt Major, in referance to the gathering the inhabitants of the towne into several garrisons according to their best capacity.
"Imprs. They have ordered Sergnt Hill's house to be a garrison for the end of ye towne, taking to it Nathaniel & Jonathan Hill, Tho : Dutton Junr, Lt. Wm. ffrench, Willm Chamberline Senr, & Isaac Chamberline, & two soldiers; & five houses
"4. They order to the Reverend Mr. Samuel Whiting, his house Thomas Dutton Sen & his son John, Daniel Shed Senr & his son John Shed, John Durrant, John Rogers Senr & his three sons, John Thomas & Nathaniel Rogers, and two soldiers; eleven soldiers & six families; & this be ye main garrison & ye ye last refuge in case of extremity.
- Not Proven - William and John Dutton immigrated to the Colonies and John married Mary Darlington, Elizabeth Rayton, Mary Neald possibly. John Dutton's father was Ralph Dutton born about 1555 from Gloucestershire, England. His Grandfather was William Button whose wife was Agnes Conway of Flintshire (her parents were John and Agnes Conway of Gloucestershire, England - this goes to Royalty). William Dutton's father was Ralph Dutton and his grandfather was Richard Dutton. BIRTH: Also shown as Born Cheshire, Cheshire, England. BIRTH: Also shown as Born 1621 DEATH: Also shown as Died 22 Jan 1687
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Sources - [S64] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index.
Mrs. Ruth HOOPER; Female; Birth: < 1663>
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