At 12:08 PM 01/07/1999 EST, you wrote: >Hello, > I hope this helps a little.... > >Randy Lilley >------------- Randy: You are a mean man. I thought I had this family pretty well stabilized, and you had to go and shake them up! Oh, well. I have quoted, with the usual ">", your first generation family journal. I shall intersperse my comments, indented and without the beginning ">". Where I have no query, which, for the vast majority of the statements you made, is the case, it is because I had the same information as you have offered. Please note my confusion on some items, lending credibility to my plea that I am not being irritating (at least, not on purpose), but am merely trying to gather and confirm information! <grin> >1. Thomas Dutton b. 28-Aug-1713, Billerica,Mass, (son of Thomas Dutton and >Hannah Burge) m. (1) 10-May-1737, in Billerica,Mass, Mary Hill, b. >10-Dec-1717, Billerica,Mass, (daughter of Samuel Hill and Sarah Page) d. >--Dec-1752, Lunenburg,Mass,3 m. (2) 9-Sep-1756, Sarah (Fitch) Hill, b. Randy: what is your source for Mary's death Dec 1752? I have it as "ca. 1754" as I didn't see it (missed it?) in VR Lunenburg. Also, VR Lunenburg pgs. 227 and 248, both intention and marriage, respectively, call Thomas' 2nd wife "Sarah Fitch". Whence cometh "Sarah (Fitch) Hill"? >8-May-1731, Boston,Mass,2 (daughter of Joseph Fitch and Margaret Clark). I didn't have her birth details. >Thomas died --Dec-1782,3 Resided: Lunenburg,Mass, Rockingham,Vt. Moved from I didn't have Thomas' death date, either, even though he is a direct ancestor. Any idea WHERE he died? >Westford to Lunenburg 1743/4 then Fitchburg. Moved to Rockingham,Vt in 1766. Technically, I suppose, one could quibble about Lunenburg/Fitchburg. I don't think he ever "removed"; instead, when Fitchburg was set apart from Lunenburg in 1764, he "found himself" living in Fitchburg. >Thomas and Sarah were received into the church in Rockingham 1778. He was the I have Sarah being accepted by the Rockingham church 4 May 1777, with the church delaying Thomas' acceptance on that date, pending his giving a satisfactory response to the charge he was neglecting public worship. It appears he was let in later that same year. Recs 1st Ch Rockingham. >Tomas Dutton who was the proprietor of Cavendish. He sold his full right or >share to Salmon Dutton 28 Oct.,1788. How did I miss THIS tidbit? Shame on me! > Children: > i Mary Dutton b. 14-Dec-1737, Billerica,Mass,2 m. 8-May-1755,3 Henry >Hogkin's, b. abt 1737. > 2. ii Silas Dutton b. 23-Nov-1739. Here is the first half of a puzzle. I have this Silas as "probably died young" but can't put my fingers on my source (if I ever had one <grin>). See "Trinity" below. > iii Timothy Dutton b. abt 1740, Lunenburg,Mass. I doubt that this Timothy fits here, if at all. We agree that "a" Silas, at least, was born 23 Nov 1739, and that Sarah was born 18 Mar 1741. This leaves less than 16 months into which to cram two pregancies. > iv Sarah Dutton b. 18-Mar-1741, Westford,Mass.2 > v Hannah Dutton b. 28-Jan-1744, Lunenburg,Mass.2 She may be married to >J Frost #544. I had her birth as 28 Jan 1745/46, but on checking my source--oops. It says 1744/45. I've fixed my records! > vi Sybil Dutton b. 9-Dec-1747, Lunenburg,Mass,2 m. Elias Olcott, b. abt >1747. Sybil died 22-Aug-1802.3 Elias Olcott was born 28 Feb 1744/45 in Bolton, CT. I have Sybil's death as 27 Aug 1823, but no idea where that date came from, at the moment. I am very interested in Sybil and Elias, as they are ancestors of mine. > 3. vii Thomas Dutton b. 18-Mar-1749. I have the date as "18 Mar 1749/50", a trivial difference. > viii Elizabeth Dutton b. 24-Dec-1752, Lunenburg,Mass,2 m. 1773,3 John VR Lunenburg pg. 283, in consecutive entries, repeats Elizabeth's birth, once on 18 Dec 1752 and once on 24 Dec. How did you choose between them? Additional source?? >Pulsipher, b. 7-Mar-1744, Pomfret,Windham Co,Ct, Resided: Rockingham,Vt. >Elizabeth died 2-Dec-1838, Caldwell,MO.3 > ix Trinity Dutton b. abt 1754.5 The second half of the "Silas" puzzle. I have no "Trinity" in my records, and find the name suspicious itself (but hardly out of the realm of possibility). Instead, I have a 2nd Silas at this point, born about 1755. But if the Silas Dutton who married Sarah Whitney 3 Mar 1763 belongs to this family, then he surely does not fit between Elizabeth and Joseph F. (I think 8 yrs old is a bit young.) All my evidence is circumstantial. Can you help? > x Joseph Fitch Dutton b. 3-Jun-1757, Fitchburg,Mass,2 m. 25-Jun-1782, As previously mentioned, Fitchburg did not exist until 1764. He probably was born, however, at a location that afterward was in Fitchburg. The same is true of his next two siblings. >in Barnard,Vt, Priscilla Stevans, b. abt 1757. Joseph Resided: Barnard. > 4. xi Susanna Dutton b. 7-Mar-1759. > 5. xii John Dutton b. 9-Jul-1761. > xiii James Dutton b. abt 1763, Fitchburg,Mass. I postulate that he was born, not in Lunenburg alias Fitchburg, but in Rockingham, Vt. He was not baptized until 20 Nov 1773, in Rockingham, very soon after the church there was founded. I reason that, had he been born in Lunenburg, the baptism would have been there, and much sooner. Or maybe I just missed the birth record in VR Lunenburg? [snip--I'm still digesting your 2nd generation data <grin>] Darrell formerly of the Dutton District in Springfield, Vermont, a moderate hike from the Rockingham town line currently in exile in Addison, Illinois darrellm@sprynet.com Formerly of Springfield, Vermont Currently in Exile in Addison, Illinois darrellm@sprynet.com