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: 6584 Benjamin Dutton 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: Dutton, Benjamin -- Billerica -- 1761 -- Guardian -- 6584 Family History Center Microfilm # 397047 Summary: --------------- "6584 Benjamin Dutten 1761" ---------- "No. 6584 Benjamin Dutten's Guardn. Bond Lettr. Delvd. fees. pd. Entd. Lib. 36 pg. 296" ---------- "Joshua Abbott junr. Cordwainer & David Osgood Inholder [sic-clear] both of Billerica" give five hundred pounds bound "Dated the ninth Day of March Anno Domini, 1761" for the obligation of "Joshua Abbott nominated and allowed to be Guardian unto Benjamin Dutton a Minor in the Seventh year of his age Son of John Dutton late of Billerica ... deceased" [witnessed] "Andw. Bordman Dan. Stone" [signed] "Joshua Abbot Jr. David Osgood" [this is the only document in the file] --------------- Darrell Darrell A. Martin formerly of the Dutton District, Springfield, Vermont currently in exile in Addison, Illinois darrellm@sprynet.com