This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sutton, Humphries, Seiferth, Reiser Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wkQBAIB/3104 Message Board Post: Is anyone working on immigrant Suttons in the late 1700’s – early 1800’s? My Thomas Sutton is listed in the Mississippi 1830 census as “foreign born, not naturalized”. He first appeared in Jefferson County, Mississippi, in 1820 when he married Phebe Humphries. He ran a sawmill and gristmill. They had 5 children: John (my ancestor), Thomas (died in the Civil War, his wife and 2 children disappeared from the census records, can’t find records of a re-marriage), Stephen (died in the Civil War, no known marriage), Margaret (married first to Julius Sieferth , second to Joseph Reiser, then disappeared from the census records), and an unknown daughter. Thomas died in 1830, leaving no clues as to where he came from or even where he is buried. The plot thickens! There are a couple of stories, told to me by various relatives, that describe the origins of our Sutton family in the United States: (1)Two Sutton brothers who were younger sons of an earl and cousins of George Washington came from England to the Carolinas and established a plantation. One of their sons had a disagreement with the family and moved south. This son is our ancestor. (2)The Sutton family came from England and settled in a southern state. The family had a sugar plantation that was inherited by “the progenitor”. The younger son came to Mississippi. His uncle was an earl who lived in Sheffield, England. Can anyone help me sort out this mess?