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From: "Walker, Linda" <>
Subject: RE: [NJHUNTER] Hunterdon.Migrants.
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 08:37:50 -0500


Hello Sylvia,

Just happened to read your email - I am in Cincinnati - a descendant of Absolom Smith who was born in Amwell, Hunterdon Co. and fought in the Revolution. Here is his abbreviated story for what it's worth . . . According to his Rev. War pension testimony (in his own words), he left NJ after the war, moved to Virginia and then to Red Stone Old Fort PA. and from there in @1798 to Columbia (outside of Cincinnati where Lunken Airport now is) where he lived for three years. He then moved to Clermont Co. Ohio where he claimed his land. He had a brother, John, who settled in Butler Co. Apparently Red Stone Old Fort was a place where they built the flatboats used to come down the Ohio River. Columbia was the settlement of choice before Cincinnati.

As for the name Sutton - there is a Sutton Avenue in Mt. Washington and a log cabin still standing (rehabbed and the logs now visible) just off that street. If I remember correctly, it was the log cabin of a John or a David Sutton (can't remember which!) - who may be a relation to yours - built around 1798.

Linda Smith Walker
Cincinnati




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I have Sutton's who migrated about 1795 to Deerfield, (now South Lebanon)
Warren County, Ohio (originally Hamilton County until 1803). On General David
Sutton's tombstone it states that he was a native of Hunterdon County, NJ. He
would have been born about 1766 and at the time of his death was married to a
woman named Mary. This was the David Sutton who was the first Clerk of Courts
of Warren County, Ohio and led troops in the War of 1812. He was part of the
migration that settled in the Symmes Purchase area of Southwest Ohio. My
question is: Did he come directly from NJ to Ohio or did he live in Northern
Kentucky for a time before crossing the Ohio River to settle? Needless to say,
tracing the "David Sutton" name is quite a challenge since there were so many of
them.
Sylvia Outland
Lebanon, Ohio



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