Hi, fellow Dutton descendants, cousins, and lurkers: I am in the (intermittent) process of transcribing summaries of every DOTON / DUNTON / DUNTING / DUTTEN / DUTTON file in the Middlesex County, Massachusetts Probate Records. Most of this information does not tie in with my DUTTON line but I'd hate to have it go to waste. The following is one of a series of messages giving my findings. Key: Text is summary unless enclosed in "double quotation marks." All spelling, especially of names, is as found. Formatting is for readability, especially lists. I apologize for any error which, although I have worked hard to avoid it, may have crept in. ----- Probate file number, name, date: 6589 Jonas Dutton 1760 Indexed in Folsom and Rogers, Registers of Probate and Insolvency, "Index to the Probate Records of the County of Middlesex, Massachusetts, First Series, From 1648 to 1871" (Cambridge, MA: 1914) as: Dutton, Jonas -- Chelmsford -- 1760 -- Administration -- 6589 Family History Center Microfilm # 397047 Summary: --------------- "6589 Jonas Dutton 1760 ---------- "Rebecca Dutton of Chelmsford Widow Isacc [sic] Foster Johner & Nathaniel Brown husbandman both of Billerica all in the County of Middlesex" give 500 pounds bond "Dated the Twenty Sixth Day of November Anno Domini, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty" for the obligation of "Rebecca Dutton this day admitted administratix of the estate of her late husband Jonas Dutton late of Chelmsford aforesaid Deceased Intestate" [witnesses] "Oliver Fletcher Richard King" [signed] "Rebecca herXmark Dutton Isaac Foster Nathaniel Brown[?]" ---------- "Chelmsford December 6th 1760" "Rebecca Dutton Isaac Foster & Nathaniel Browne" swore to the bond before "Oliver Fletcher, Just. Pac." ---------- "No 6589 Jonas Dutton's Administrat. Bond Lettr. Delivd. Chelmd. fee, Judge 3/ fee, Register 3/ Entd. Lib. 36 p. 308[?] Nov 26, 1760" ---------- "Capt. Ephraim Spaulding of Chelmsford, mr. Solomon Osgood of Durent[??] & Mr. Isaac Foster of Billerica" to take an inventory "Given under my Hand this twenty sixth Day of novembr. A.D. 1760 S. Danforth J. Prob." ---------- "Chelmsford December 2d. 1760" "Ephraim Spaulding Solomon Osgood and Isaac Foster made oath before me to take an Inventory of ... all the Estate whereof the within named Jonas Dutton died siezed" "Oliver Fletcher, Just. Pac." "Jonas Dutton Warrant for Inv. Nov. 26, 1760" ---------- "all the Estate whereof mr. Jonas Dutton Late of Chelmsford" the inventory is exhibited without total "Item all the Lands and Buildings belonging to said Estate we apprized at 120-0-0" "Chelmsford December 24 1760 Ephm. Spaulding } Solomon Osgood } Comttee. Isaac Foster } Middlesex June 14 1762 Rebecca Dutton the adminx. exhibited the foregoing inventory on oath S Danforth J.prob." --------------- [end of records] Darrell Darrell A. Martin formerly of the Dutton District, Springfield, Vermont currently in exile in Addison, Illinois darrellm@sprynet.com