Hi Cori, I looked in the index to Cope's book and Lodi is not in there; however, in the 1700's Pennsylvania and Maryland quarreled about the boundary line between them. In 1763, the two states called in two English astronomers, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, who completed a survey of the land in 1767. This surveyed line is called the Mason-Dixon line and Pennsylvania lost some land to Maryland and the PA Duttons lost some PA Duttons to Maryland, as well. You may descend from Robert Dutton, but you will have to do a lot more digging to find out your line of descent. On page 40 Cope writes: "Robert was probably the youngest child of John [Dutton] and Mary [Darlington] Dutton. In 1701 a project was started of settling a township on the Maryland line, and several persons of Chichester, Aston, and the neighboring parts, agreed to take shares in the enterprise; each share to be one thousand acres. Among these were Robert Dutton and one Samuel Littler, who together took a share of 500 acres each. A large tract of 18,000 acres was laid out the next year and divided into smaller parcels, for which the different purchasers drew lots. This large tract was called Nottingham, but by the running of Mason and Dixon's line nearly all of the original township fell into Maryland. Robert Dutton and Samuel Littler obtained two lots, one on each side, east and west, of the "Brick Meeting." Cope expounds that the new settlers started a branch of the Friends Chichester and Concord Monthly meeting [important to know when looking for Quakers]. Robert Dutton married Ann Brown both of Nottingham Twp. with their second declaration being on 13th 8 mo. [Oct] 1707. Ann was the daugher to William and Ann (Mercer) Brown and was born 1 10 mo. [Dec] 1687. The monthly meetings changed: In 1715 the Nottingham meeting joined to the Newark Monthly Meeting; in 1718 it became a branch of the Newgarden Meeting; about 1730 the meeting was separated and became the Nottingham Monthly Meeting. Children of Robert and Ann (Brown) Dutton: Mary b. 15th 8 mo. 1708 Ann b. 10th 10 mo. 1711 Robert b. 26 8 mo. 1713. Nothing further is known of these three children. Now, the only hint I can give you besides all this data, which may lead you to back to the Duttons, is to email the Mercers. mailto:REMercer@aol.com and see if Robert E. Mercer can help out. We are related to the Mercer's and he may have enough Dutton data to help you out. Part of the Mercer family also immigrated from Pennsylvania to Ohio and we all lived in Harrisville, OH, and environs for quite some time. In Dillonvale, where I grew up, Lucille Mercer lived down the street from me. I hope that this helps, Please let me know if you find any connections. Good luck, Carole Cope's book may be purchased online at: http://www.higginsonbooks.com/ Also, I recall that Ed Dutton on this list has info on Indiana Duttons. Maybe he can help!!!! ____________________ Burnjcm@aol.com wrote: > > Carole~ > > Where can I find a copy of that Cope's book about the PA Dutton's? I keep > hearing you guys talk about it, but have no clue as to where I might find this > book. I suspect that the Dutton I'm trying to trace out is descended from the > Duttons of PA. His name was Lodia W. Dutton (born in MD around mid 1830's). > He lived in Cecil Co., MD; which is just over the state line from Chester Co., > PA where the Duttons of PA were from. He married Melissa Jeanetta Wales of > Talbot Co., MD. Could you look in that Cope book of yours to see if you can > find anything on any Duttons from PA that "migrated" to Eastern Shore MD? > Thanks. Lodia Dutton is my gr.gr.grandfather. > > Cori (Burnjcm@aol.com)