The Duttons of New England

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DUTTON, Thomas

DUTTON, Thomas[1, 2, 3]

Male 1621 - 1686  (64 years)    Has 12 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name DUTTON, Thomas  
    Birth 06 Oct 1621  Dutton, Cheshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Gender Male 
    Immigration 1630  [5
    Death 22 Jan 1686  Billerica, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Burial Y  [8
    • Messsage rec'd: "Thomas Dutton (1621-1686) is not buried in the Old Corner Burying Ground in Billerica, MA. According to the Billerica Historic Commission, the earliest burial in that cemetery is 1715.*

      Former or Previous Cemetery notes and/or description:
      The Old Corner Burying Ground, located on Pollard Street just north of the intersection with Boston Road and Floyd Street, was set aside from common land in 1707.
      Phone: (978) 671-0946

      New information:
      A cemetery in operation in Billerica from 1663 on is the South Burying Ground on Concord Road between French Street and Middlesex Turnpike.
      Phone: (978) 671-0946

      Perhaps someone in the Billerica Historic Commission can verify whether Thomas is in this earlier cemetery, as recently suggested. Funny that both cemeteries have the same phone number ???? [7]
    Thomas Dutton Sr. (1621-1686) - Find a Grave Memorial
    Thomas Dutton Sr. (1621-1686) - Find a Grave Memorial
    Person ID I104  Dutton Ancestry
    Last Modified 1 Aug 2023 

    Father Ancestors DUTTON, John
              b. 5 Oct 1597, Sherborne, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 04 May 1693, Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 95 years) 
    Relationship Birth 
    Mother Ancestors DANVERS, Lucy
              b. 1575, Bromham, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. Jun 1621, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 46 years) 
    Relationship Birth 
    Marriage 1619  Billerica, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Age at Marriage He : ~ 21 years and 2 months - She : ~ 44 years. 
    Children 8 children 
    +1. DUTTON, Elizabeth
              b. 17 May 1620, Sherborne, England Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    +2. DUTTON, Thomas
              b. 06 Oct 1621, Dutton, Cheshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 22 Jan 1686, Billerica, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 64 years)
     3. DUTTON, Lucy
              b. Abt 1622, Sherborne, Gloucester, England Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 1623  (Age ~ 1 years)
     4. DUTTON, Joseph
              b. 1623, Sherborne, Gloucester, England Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 1718  (Age 95 years)
     5. DUTTON, Josiah
              b. 1623, Sherborne, Gloucester, England Find all individuals with events at this location
    Married: 1x6. DUTTON, Lucy
              b. 9 Apr 1624, Sherborne, Gloucester, England Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 6 Apr 1656, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 31 years)
     7. DUTTON, Robert
              b. 1625, Sherborne, England Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 1720, Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 95 years)
    +8. DUTTON, Samuel
              b. 1627, Cheshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 7 Jun 1685, Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 58 years)
     
    Children 8 children 
    Stepparents 
    NEELD, Robert (m. 1592)
    Family ID F3954  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 PALMER, Susannah
              b. 27 Aug 1626, Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 27 Aug 1684, Billerica, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 58 years)  [9
    Marriage 9 Nov 1648  Billerica, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [10
    Age at Marriage He : 27 years and 1 month - She : 22 years and 3 months. 
    Children 
    +1. DUTTON, Thomas II
              b. 14 Sep 1648, Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 01 Jan 1728, Billerica, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]
    +2. DUTTON, Mary
              b. 14 Sep 1651, Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 9 Jul 1678, Billerica, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 26 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]
     3. DUTTON, Susanna
              b. 27 Feb 1653, Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. Dec 1723, Billerica, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 70 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]
    +4. DUTTON, John
              b. 28 Mar 1656, Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 7 Apr 1735, Billerica, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]
    +5. DUTTON, Joseph
              b. 25 Nov 1660, Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 24 Jan 1733, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]
     6. DUTTON, Sarah
              b. 5 Mar 1662, Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 1757, Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 94 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]
    Married: 2x7. DUTTON, James
              b. 22 Aug 1665, Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 1696, Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 30 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]
    Married: 1x8. DUTTON, Benjamin
              b. 19 Feb 1667, Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 11 Feb 1693 (Age 25 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]
    Family ID F48  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 1 Aug 2023 

    Family 2 MARSHALL, Ruth Hooper
              b. 15 Apr 1653, Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 21 Nov 1688, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 35 years)  [11
    Marriage 10 Sep 1684  Billerica, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [11
    Thomas Dutton Sr & Ruth Hooper Marshall
Thomas Dutton & Rebecca Draper
John Dutton & Sarah Shed
    Thomas Dutton and Rebecca Draper
    Age at Marriage He : 62 years and 11 months - She : 31 years and 5 months. 
    Family ID F360  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 8 Oct 2011 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 06 Oct 1621 - Dutton, Cheshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 9 Nov 1648 - Billerica, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 10 Sep 1684 - Billerica, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 22 Jan 1686 - Billerica, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
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    Pin Legend Address Cemetery Farm Town Parish City County/Shire State/Province Country Region Not Set

  • Documents
    New England Marriages Prior to 1700
    New England Marriages Prior to 1700
    John [DUNTON] DUTTON of Reading, Massachusetts
    John [DUNTON] DUTTON of Reading, Massachusetts
    Elizabeth Dutton is a sister of Thomas Dutton

    Histories
    Thomas Dutton
    Thomas Dutton
    Chosen to be spokesman for town of Woburn, MA

  • Notes 
    • "Thomas Dutton, very likely the son of John Dutton, was born in England about 1621. He most likely came to America around 1630 with his father. He probably grew up in Reading, Massachustts. He married Susannah, whose name was possibly Palmer, around 1647 and they settled in Reading, where their first four children were born. In 1659 they removed to Woburn, where five more children were born. They are the ancestors of most of the New England Duttons. In 1669 they moved to Billerica and settled on the south side of Fox Brook. Susanna died in Billerica on Aug. 27, 1684, aged 58 years. She was the mother of all his children. Thomas married second, on Nov. 10, 1684, Ruth Hooper, widow of William Hooper. Thomas himself died on Jan. 22, 1687, in Billerica.

      Thomas figured in two remarkable court cases. In 1668 he brought suit against Michael Bacon Jr. for slander after Bacon accused him with the theft of a napkin and spoon. Bacon was found guilty and fined 15 pounds. The best men of Reading and Woburn testified to the excellent character of Dutton. "Wee whos Names are under written testyfy that Thomas Dutton having lived amongst us in the Town of Woburne were the space of tenne yeares, has bine very Industrus in his calling and has not to our knowledge bine any way given to steall or to take any thing that is not his owne. Josias Conuars, William Johnson, Mathew Johnson, James Conuars , Samuell Conuars, John Broockes, Thomas Pierce, Samual Walker senyer, John Russell Junior, Henry Broockes, Isack Broockes, Edward Wom, Ricjard Gardner, John Russell Sen, John Carter."

      In 1661 he was before the court for beating his wife, and was fined, in spite of the denials of both himself and his wife. The evidence against him came entirely from the household of a neighbor, Ensign John Carter. Carter's two teenaged daughters claimed that they both saw Dutton beat his wife with a stick while she had a child in her arms. The following morning, according to Carter's wife Elizabeth and his servant John Neale, there was a great outcry from Dutton's wife. They claimed to have heard her crying out between the blows he was dealing her. That same morning Carter and the Woburn grandjuryman confronted Dutton and found his wife crying and her eyes were swollen. Later on that Monday, September 30, 1661 Goodwife Dutton came to Carter's house and told them she could still feel the blows.

      In Dutton's defense two subscriptions were presented to the court. Twenty-one people of Reading testified to his "tender & loving treatment of his wife" and previous next-door neighbors had never heard any evidence of violence. The second came from eleven witnesses to Dutton's "loving and tender carriage to his wife" and claimed that there had been no sound of any abuse "till John Carter had complained against him." There was popular resentment against the Carters who had turned a domestic tiff into a public matter, a resentment which Dutton's wife may well have shared. Dutton's battering of his wife may have been directly provoked by the misbehavior of their daughter Mary, who had run away and hid at the Carter's home."

      [4]

  • Sources 
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      Note:
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      Record added: Jun 10, 2013
      Find A Grave Memorial# 112115541

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      Publisher
      Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000.

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