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: 6573 Jerusha Dutton 1758 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, Jerusha -- Westford -- 1758 -- Guardian -- 6573 Dutton, Jerusha -- Lunenburg -- 1758 -- Guardian -- 6573 Family History Center Microfilm # 397047 Summary: --------------- "6573 Jerusha Dutton 1758 Guardian Bond Lettr. Delivd. fees to Judge 3/ Regr. 3/ Entd. Lib. 37 page 25 & [page?] 58 Jan.16.1758" --------------- "We Joseph Dutton Cordwainer & Nathaniel Boynton Joyner both of Westford ..." give bond to Judge Danforth "five hundred Pounds, in Lawful Money" "Dated the sixteenth Day of January Anno Domini, 1758." Bond is for the performance of "Joseph Dutton Nominated and Allowed to be Guardian unto Jerusha Dutton, a Minor in the third year of her age Daughter of Ephraim Dutton late of Lunenbourg ... deceased ..." [witnessed] "James Tyng Andw. Bordman [signed] Joseph Dutton Nathn. Boynton" --------------- Darrell Darrell A. Martin formerly of the Dutton District, Springfield, Vermont currently in exile in Addison, Illinois darrellm@sprynet.com