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From: "Darrell A. Martin" <>
Subject: Re: Ancestry
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 18:04:10 -0500
In-Reply-To: <69.9b0d781.26d82cad@aol.com>


At 04:10 PM 08/25/2000 EDT, wrote:
>Hi All:
> Now that Doug has taken the lead in, and the enormous chore of, providing
>us with a copy of Dick Dutton's file, I thought it might be worth posting
>what I understand is my line. Maybe I have some cousins on here. Might be fun
>to share and compare our particular ancestors.

[snip]

>Benjamin's father was
>Joseph Dutton (1660/1661-1733-1734) m. Mary Cutler
>Thomas Dutton (bet. 1619-1622 - 1686/1687) m. Susannah Palmer
>John Dutton (1596-1693) m. Mary
>
> If anyone sees any errors, please let me know. Our line went from MA to
>New Haven, CT and on to Chautauqua County, NY.

[snip]

>Doni in CA

Hi, Doni:

Just a comment on two items that have been around for a LONG time but which are either known to be correct or which have no foundation in evidence that I have been able to find:

1. That Thomas DUTTON's wife's maiden name was PALMER is not known. It was so reported for many years in the LDS CD's (in the line of Joseph Smith the Prophet, yet). After a rather spirited cyber-battle between a persistent but evidence-less lady and the LDS editors, the surname PALMER has been retracted in favor of "unknown."

2. That Thomas DUTTON is the son of "Massachusetts John" DUTTON is speculation, although in my opinion quite likely. I am descended in two lines from this Thomas, and would dearly love to see evidence to connect him to John (or for that matter any other ancestor! <grin>).

3. That "Massachusetts John" DUTTON had a wife named Mary is possible, but only because we don't know her name at all and Mary is a common female name. All of the assertions to the effect that this John's wife was named Mary come from a confusion of "Massachusetts John" with "Pennsylvania John." That "Pennsylvania John's" wife was named Mary is solidly documented.

Sorry for the dousing with cold water, but there is nobody more interested than I am in *proving* the Thomas-John connection and their antecedents; and old fables and plain errors just confuse things. You aren't the first to report this info, and I am resigned to the idea that you won't be the last. Don't be embarrassed, or whatever; most of us (my hand is raised as high as any) have "been there, thought that." Join us in the hunt!

Darrell


Darrell A. Martin
a native of the Dutton District, Springfield, Vermont
no longer proud to have been a Vermonter
but still proud of my Vermont roots
currently in exile in Addison, Illinois


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