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: 6581 John 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, John -- Tewksbury -- 1760 -- Will -- 6581 Family History Center Microfilm # 397047 Summary: --------------- "6581 John Dutton 1760" --------------- "In the Name of god Amen the twentyeth Day of March in the year of ouer Lord 1759 I John Dutton of Tewksbury in the county of Middlesex and province of the Massachuses Bay Nu ingland. yomen Being in a comfortable state of helth and of perfect minde and memory ... Imprimis I give and Bequeath unto Mehetibal my Dearly Beloved wife all[???] home. I like wise constitute make and or Dain this my sole Executor of this my Last will and testement all my Real and personal estate to be at her Dis posal oblige ing her to pay all my just Debts. ... Published prounounced and Decleared by the sed Joh Dutton as his last will and Test{??} In prescense of US Nathanael Clark Junr. Jonathan Kittridge John Dutton Joseph Kittredge [?d] [?d] [looks like remains of wax seal]" --------------- "Samuel Danforth Esq; Judge of the Probate of Wills, &c in the County of middlesex ... on the fourteenth Day of April Anno Domini 1760 the Instrument hereunto annexed (purporting the last Will and Testament of John Dutton late of Tewkbury in said County Yeoman deceased) was presented for Probate by Mehetabel Dutten the Executrix therein named; then present Nathaniel Clark Junr. & Jonathan Kitteredge two of the Witnesses ..." who confirmed under oath that this was John Dutton's last will "and that they, with Joseph Kitteredge the third subscribed their Nameses together as Witnesses" The will is approved, and John's wife is confirmed as Executrix. --------------- "... we Mehetabel Dutton Widow, Nathaniel Clark Junr. Cordwainer & Jonathan Kitteredge Yeoman all of Tewkbury" give bond of "two hundred Pounds, Currant Money of New England ... Dated the fourteenth Day of April Anno Domini, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixety, Annoque Regni Regis Georgii Secundi Tricesimo Tertio." Bond is for Mehetabel as "Executrix to the last Will and Testament of her late husband John Dutton late of Tewkbury" "Signed, Sealed and Delivered in Presence of Andw. Bordman P[??]t Tunney [signed by mark] Mihitabel Dutton [signed] Nathaniel Clark junr. Jonathan Kittredge" --------------- Darrell