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: 6536 Nathaniel Dunton 1746 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: Dunton, Nathaniel -- Sudbury -- 1746 -- Administration -- 6536 Family History Center Microfilm # 397047 Summary: --------------- "To the Honble Samuel Danforth Esqr. Judge of Probates for the county of Middlesex: may it please yr. Honr. my Brother Nathanael Dunton a Soldier at Cape Britain is dead Intestate never married & has Left a mother two Brothers & two sisters: the mother & they are all married & settled in Connecticutt Government: & I the subscriber being the oldest brother ..." requests leave for "Honr. Samll. Lyscom" to settle the estate [signed] "Ebenezer Denton Southboro may ye 2d 1746 P.S. my Brother abovesd was about 22 years old a Labourer & went from Sudbury" [sic Denton] --------------- "Samuel Liscum, Fanceis Whipple, Joseph Wilder[?]" give bond for the appraisal "Dated the fourteenth Day of June Anno Domini, One Thousand Seven Hundred and forty six -- Annoque Regni Regis Georgii Secundi Decimo nono." --------------- "June the 7 1746" the appraisers made their oath before "John Jones Justice of the Peace" --------------- When the inventory of "Nathanael Dunton Late of Sudbury in the County of Middlesex ... Labourer deceased (at Cape Britain) Intestate" was taken, the appraisers "find not any Estate Neither Real nor Personal Except what may be due for wages. June ye 7th 1746" --------------- "Septr. 11th 1746 Samuel Liscum Esqr. the adminstrator made oath that no Estate belonging to the aforenamed Deced. hath as yet come to his hands or knowledge save his wages as aforesaid S. Danforth J.Prob." --------------- Darrell Darrell A. Martin formerly of the Dutton District, Springfield, Vermont currently in exile in Addison, Illinois darrellm@sprynet.com