Hi, Duttons, Duntons, and others: I have on occasion mentioned the only source I have encountered that might support a connection between Susannah(ca.1626-1684), wife of Thomas Dutton (ca.1619-1686/7), with any Palmer. It is in the last line of Barbara Palmer's will, proved 10 June 1651, below. I have also provided one other will, that of her husband, for additional family relationships. Please note that I do *NOT* claim that this is any kind of proof that "our" Susannah Dutton was born a Palmer. In fact, her will can, as easily as not, be read to make the mentioned Susannah a part of Barbara Palmer's birth family (possibly Combe), and not a Palmer at all. This e-mail may serve more to show the paucity of the evidence than anything else, but in any case I offer the documents as published. --------------- Source: "Genealogical Gleanings in England: Abstracts of Wills Relating to Early American Families, with Genealogical Notes and Pedigrees Constructed from the Wills and from Other Records", by Henry F. Waters, A.M. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981 reprint of the 1907 original. pg. 301 "WILLIAM PALMER of London Esquire, 23 March 1635 (sealed and published 6 April 1636) with a codicil dated 12 September 1636, proved 27 September 1636. My body to be buried in the parish church of St. Mary Aldermanbury, in London, where I now dwell. All my personal estate shall be (in respect I am a citizen and freeman of the City of London) divided into three equal parts, according to the ancient custom of the same city, whereof one part I give unto Barbara Palmer, my wellbeloved wife, as due unto her by the said custom. Another third I give unto my three sons, Archdale, William and John, to be divided equally amongst them, according to the said laudable custom. And the other third part thereof, commonly called the Testator's third part, being devisable by me according to the custom of the same city, I do dispose of as followeth. (Then follow sundry bequests, among which) To my sister Mrs. Mary Palmer the late wife of my brother Mr. Robert Palmer, to my brother John Palmer, to! my cousin Thomas Palmer of Marston and his brother Robert Palmer, to my cousin Mr. George Clarke, to my Kinsman Thomas Cooke of Salte in the co. of Stafford and his sister Katherine Holte and his sister Frances Backhouse, to my cousinn Walter Sedgley, for a divinity lecture or sermon in the Chapel of Marston where I was born, to my son John, at the age of twenty one. My cousin Mr. George Clerke and my son Archdale Palmer to be executors. In the codicil he mentions 'our minister Mr. Doctor Stanton,' cousin Bydolphe and his wife, cousin William Palmer and his wife, cousin Williams and his wife, cousin Mr. Richard Archdale and his wife, cousin Gardner, the company of Haberdashers, the poor in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 'whereof I am a Governor,' and others. Pile, 100." [There follows a discussion of St. Mary Aldermanbury, and of certain family connections not directly related to the point at hand.] "BARBARA PALMER of Onelepe in the co. of Leicester, widow, 13 September 1650, proved 10 June 1651. It is my earnest desire that the younger children of my sons Archdale Palmer Esq. and Sir William Palmer, Knight, shall have those moneys paid them which I have given them by their said fathers. To my son John Palmer a messuage in or near Page Green in the parish of Tottenham, Middlesex (and other tenements). To my cousin Sarah Willett, wife of James Willett clerk, to John Sare, son of Archdale Sare, at twenty one, to my cousin John Combe's wife, to my cousin Mary Ditchfield, to my cousin Susanna Dutten. Other bequests and legacies. Grey, 126" --------------- Darrell Darrell A. Martin formerly of the Dutton District, Springfield, Vermont currently in exile in Addison, Illinois darrellm@sprynet.com