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: 6585 Hannah Dutten 1761 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: Dutten, Hannah -- Billerica -- 1761 -- Guardian -- 6585 Family History Center Microfilm # 397047 Summary: --------------- "6585 Hannah Dutten 1761" ---------- "No. 6585 Hannah Dutten Guardn. Bond Lettr. Delivd. fees pd. Judge 3/ Regr. 3/ Entd. Lib. 36 pg. 297" ---------- "Benjamin Shed housewright & David Osgood Inholder [sic-clear] both of Billerica" give 500 pounds bond "Dated the ninth Day of March Anno Domini 1761" for the obligation of "Benjamin Shed nominated and allowed to be Guardian unto Hannah Dutton a Minor in the ninth year of her age Daughter of John Dutton late of Billerica ... deceased" [witnessed] "Andw. Bordman Dan. Stone" [signed] "Benjamin Shed [all visible, but last letter partially obscured - wax seal?] David Osgood" [only document in file] --------------- Darrell Darrell A. Martin formerly of the Dutton District, Springfield, Vermont currently in exile in Addison, Illinois darrellm@sprynet.com