After going through my entire Dutton file -- page by page by page - for the third time........I finally found it early this morning!! As I vaguely remembered, I had found it on LDS film #0165997. When I first found you folks and this list....I went into a frenzy of checking out every book I could find on just about every aspect of family - locations where they lived - royal connections etc. I also checked the LDS Library Cat. and found 9 or 10 listings for the Dutton family. Not knowing much about the family yet......but determined to learn EVERYthing ..... I ordered ALL of the films listed! (We ate peanut butter that week! haha!) This particular film was a collection of family histories put together by the Daughters of the Founders and Patriots of America --- Volume 13. It was a big full reel, as I remember and I floundered around thru it.....finding NOTHING about any Duttons! Ready to give up.....I started re-winding and in so doing, figured out that it contained MANY different Volumes and many different families. So then I started over at the beginning.......and finally found volume 13......and on page 81-84 of that vol......found this very brief little story of the Duttons.......prepared by member number 4515.......... drum roll please.....DOLLIE DUTTON WATKINS !! Yes.....Dollie Dutton! Bless her little heart! She put together this little history (only 4 pages long) beginning with John of Pa and went quickly on down to her line. I see here that she was married in 1901......so I guess we can assume Dollie has gone on to her Dutton ancestors by now! (Lived in Cleveland, Ohio) ANYHOW.....I copy very brief excerpts here from the first page. "Accompanied by his wife and four children, John Dutton the FOUNDER of the Dutton family in America, came from near Chester England in 1682 with William Penn on board the ship "Welcome." .......married Mary Darlington, dau. of George Darlington of DARNHILL in Cheshire....... .......was the second family to settle on Chester Creek, then called Upland. There was only an Indian path to follow to the site where they built their first home of logs. They traded trinkets to the friendly Indians for corn and game and saved feathers from the wild ducks and skins from animals for bedding. .........and here it comes folks!!) Dollie writes - "In a letter to his relatives he wrote, "FOR THE SAKE OF MY RELIGION I HAVE LOST MUCH, NOT ONLY THE PREFERMENTS OF FAMILY AND POSITION, BUT MY INHERITANCE IN WHICH MUCH WAS INVOLVED.........BUT I DO NOT COMPLAIN." Isn't it great to "hear" his own words. Makes it come alive. Anyhow.....Dollie....being a good and careful D.F.P.A. member....gives a whole list of Sources. Where did she find John's letter??? Maybe the answer lies here. I copy it in it's entirety. Maybe we've seen them all...... maybe we missed something.........what say you??? The Duttons of Dutton pub 1901 London, England History of City of Chester and County Palantine Daniel King's Vale Royal revised and published in London 1882. Hanshalls History of Chester, England pub 1823 Burke's Heraldry Cope's History of Darlington Family Cope's History of Duttons of Penna. Smith's History of Delaware Co, PA p. 291-2 Young's History of Delaware Co. PA p. 80 Martin's History of Chester, PA. Further and Cope's History of Chester Co. (Vol 1 pp 371, 231, 155) Ashmead's History of Delaware Co. William's History of Washington Co. p 678 Howe's History of Ohio Vol II p. 353 Well......I'm feeling better today. It always makes me crazy when I can't find something like that. I can't believe no one else had stumbled across this one. Guess this is one of the benefits of having "many eyes" out there looking for material!! OK...busy weekend ahead.....gotta get at it. we'll talk again...... Phyllis