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: 6578 Stephen Dutton & al 1757 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, Stephen -- Chelmsford -- 1757 -- Guardian -- 6578 Family History Center Microfilm # 397047 Summary: --------------- "Stephen Abigail and No. 6578 Susanna Dutton Guardn. Bond Lettr Delivd. [illeg.] Judge 4/6 Reg. 4/6 13 June 1757 Ent. Lib. 36 page 297" --------------- "... we Ruth Dutton Widow & John Butterfield gentmn. both of Chelmsford ..." give bond to Judge Danforth "in the full Sum of Three hundred Pounds, in Lawful Money of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay" "Dated the Thirteenth Day of June Anno Domini, 1757." Bond is for the performance of "the above-bounden Ruth Dutton, nominated and allowed to be guardian unto Stephen, Abigail, & Susanna, minors under the age of fourteen years children of James Dutton late of Chelmsford ..." [witnessed] "Thos. Greenwood Andrw. Bordman [signed] "Ruth herXmark Dutton John Butterfied [sic]" --------------- Darrell