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(I) John Conant, with whom the authentic genealogy of this family begins, lived in the parish of East Budleigh, Devonshire, Eng- land, where he was a taxpayer in 1671, and in 1577 warden of the church. He was bur- ied March 30, 1596.
(II) Richard Conant, son of John Conant (I), was born in the parish of East Budleigh, about 1548. In 1588 he was assessed for lands there, and he was church warden in 1606 and 1616. He married, February, 4, 1578, Agnes, daughter of John Clarke, Sr., of Collyton. Her father married, June 9, 1544, Anne,
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daughter of William Macy, of Coylton. Rich- ard and his wife were buried on the same day, September 22, 1630. Both are spoken of in the "Life of John Conant" as "persons of ex- emplary piety." His will was proved at Exe- ter, October 13, 1631. Children of Richard and Agnes Conant: I. John, baptized Janu- ary 20, 1579-80; married - - Richards. 2. Richard, baptized February 21, 1581-82. 3. Robert. 4. Jane, baptized May 9, 1584; mar- ried, September 18, 1609, Thomas Knowles. 5. John, baptized March 18, 1586-87. 6. Thomas, baptized April 30, 1587. 7. Christo- pher, baptized June 13, 1588; was a grocer in London; married September 14, 1619, Anne Wilton; came to Plymouth in New England in 1623, in ship "Ann." 8. Roger, mentioned below.
(III) Roger Conant, son of Richard Con- . ant (2), was the American immigrant. He was baptized at All Saints' Church, East Bud- leigh, England, April 9, 1592. One of his brothers was educated at Oxford, and Roger received a good education. On January 20, 1619-20, Christopher Conant, grocer, and Roger Conant, salter, both of the parish of St. Lawrence, Jewry, London, signed the compo- sition bond of their brother John for the "first fruits" of the rectory of Lymington. He was first at Plymouth, but owing to differ- ences on religious belief he followed Rev. John Lyford and others to Nantasket (Hull). While at Nantasket he made use of Gover- nor's Island, which for some time was called Conant's Island. In 1632 it was granted to Governor John Winthrop, however. In 1624- 25 Conant was chosen by the Dorchester Com- pany to govern their colony at Cape Ann. Lyford was chosen as minister at the same time. After a year at the Cape he removed with those colonists who did not return to England, and settled at Naumkeag, later called Salem. Conant's house was removed from Cape Ann and became the parsonage, then an inn, and the frame, which is said to have been brought from England originally, is still in use, forming part of a stable on the north side of Church, near Washington street. The ex- act site of Conant's house, which was the first built in Salem, cannot be ascertained. After the patent for the territory had been received, John Endicott, one of the patentees, was sent over with some fifty colonists and superseded Conant as governor after he had held that of- fice three years. Although he is not univer- sally recognized as the first governor of Mass- achusetts, Roger Conant is fairly entitled to
that honor, for the colony of which he was the head was the first permanent settlement in the Massachusetts Bay territory. After some friction Conant and the old settlers made their peace with Endicott and the new- comers. Conant was admitted a freeman May 18, 1631, having previously supported the Es- tablished Church under Lyford. He was jus- tice of the quarterly court at Salem three years; selectman 1637 to 1641, and 1651 to 1654 inclusive, also in 1657 and 1658. In 1667 he was one of the original members of the Beverly church. He had large grants of lands, and bought and sold extensively in Sa- lem, Beverly and vicinity. He died November 19, 1679. His will was dated March 1, 1618, in the parish of Blackfriars, London; married Sarah Horton. Children: I. Sarah, christened September 19, 1619; buried in London, Octo- ber 30, 1620. 2. Caleb, christened May 27, 1622, came to Massachusetts, but returned to England. 3. Lot, born about 1624; mention- ed below. 4. Roger, born 1626, first white child born in Salem. 5. Sarah, born about 1628. 6. Joshua. 7. Mary. 8. Elizabeth. 9. Exercise, baptized December 24, 1637.
(IV) Lot Conant, son of Roger Conant (3), was born about 1624, in Nantasket or at Cape Ann, and settled as early as 1657 at Marblehead. He was a selectman in 1662 and a householder in 1674. His father gave him a farm and homestead at Beverly, Novem- ber 20, 1666, and about this time he moved to Beverly and built a house near his father's. He was one of those dismissed from the first church of Salem to form the Beverly church, July 4, 1667. Many of his deeds are on rec- ord. He died September 29, 1674. His will was dated September 24 of the same year. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Wil- liam Walton, who took degrees at Emanuel College, Cambridge, in 1621 and 1625, and was settled over the parish of Seaton, Devon- shire, where his daughter was baptized Octo- ber 27, 1629. He was pastor at Marblehead in 1639 and until his death in 1668. Eliza- beth, widow of Lot Conant, married second, January 10, 1681-82, as his third wife, An- drew Mansfield, son of Robert and Elizabeth Mansfield, of Lynn. Children of Lot and Elizabeth Conant: I. Nathaniel, born July 28, 1650. 2. John, born December 15, 1652; mentioned below. 3. Lot, born February 16, 1657-58. 4. Elizabeth, born May 13, 1660. 5. Mary, born July 14, 1662. 6. Martha, born August 15, 1664. 7. Sarah (twin), born Feb- ruary 19, 1666-67. 8. William (twin), born
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February 19, 1666-67. 9. Roger, born March 10, 1668-69. 10. Rebecca, born January 31, 1670-71.
(V) John Conant, son of Lot Conant (4), was born December 15, 1652, at Beverly, Massachusetts, and settled there on the sixty acres of upland lying near Richard Dodge's farm given to his father by his grandfather in 1666. He built a house on the north side of the road called Dodge street, a third of a mile from the present North Beverly railroad sta- tion on the Eastern railroad, and this house stood until 1830. He was a weaver as well as farmer. He served in King Philip's war in Captain Samuel Appleton's company in 1675. He was admitted to the church at Beverly, August 23, 1691. He died September 30, 1724, disposing of his estate by will dated Sep- tember 21, 1724. He married, May 7, 1678, Bethiah, daughter of Andrew Mansfield. She was born April 7, 1658, and died July 27, 1720. Children : I. Lot, baptized June 1, 1679, men- tioned below. 2. Elizabeth, born January 14, 1681-82. 3. Bethia, born 1684. 3. John, born July 7, 1686. 5. Deborah, born Febru- ary 20, 1687-88. 6. Mary, born October 20, 1689. 7. Daniel, born November 19, 1694. 8. Rebecca, born March 29, 1696. 9. Benja- min, born October 22, 1698. 10. Jemima, born November 9, 1701.
(VI) Lot Conant, son of John Conant (5), was baptized June I, 1679, at Beverly ; removed to Concord, Massachusetts, about 1716. April, 1710, he bought fifteen acres in Manchester, and while at Concord sold the same land to his father and brother Daniel in Beverly. He lived in the house owned later by Colonel Brown. He died May 15, 1767. He married, May 15, 1698, Martha Cleaves, who was admitted to the First Church at Bev- erly, May 31, 1701, and died at Concord, Feb- ruary 15, 1725, aged according to her grave- stone, forty-four years. He married second, Susannah Clark, and third, Mary
Children of Lot and Martha Conant: I. Robert, born April 26, 1699. 2. Andrew, baptized January 25, 1702-03; mentioned be- low. 3 William, baptized July 6, 1707. 4. Dinah, baptized August 20, 1710. 5. Ezra, baptized June 15, 1712, died young. 6. John, baptized October 4, 1713. 7. Elizabeth, bap- tized April 3, 1715. The preceding were born in Beverly, the following in Concord: 8. Martha, born July 10, 1716. 9. Bethia, born 1720. Children of Lot and Susannah Conant : IO. Ezra, born September 19, 1730. II. Sar- ah, born about April 29, 1732; married Jona- than Hodgman.
(VII) Andrew Conant, son of Lot Conant (6), was baptized in Beverly, January 25, I702-03; removed to Concord with his par- ents, and in 1723 bought a farm adjoining his father's in Concord. He was also a clothier by trade. He married at Charlestown, May 2, 1723, Elizabeth Taylor, who died September 10, 1759, aged fifty-eight; married second, at Concord, June 7, 1759, Mrs. Mary Hubbard who died November 30, 1763, aged sixty ; married third, at Danvers, July 19, 1764, An- na Gardner, widow of Daniel. Children of Andrew and Elizabeth (Taylor) Conant, all born in Concord: I. Elizabeth, born Febru- ary 10, 1723-24. 2. Andrew, born August 22, 1725. 3. Lydia, born December 22, 1728, died October 26, 1731. 4. Nathan, born February 2, 1730-31. 5. Kezia, born February 1, 1732. 6. Nathan, born March 18, 1734-35, died young. 7. Lydia, born October 29, 1737. 8. Silas, born August 15, 1740. 9. Eli, born March 16, 1741-42; mentioned below. IO. Ruth, born March 25, 1744-45; died March 14, 1760. II. Abel, born April 5, 1747. 12. Nathan, born June 23, 175I.
(VIII) Eli Conant, son of Andrew Conant, (7), was born March 16, 1741-42, in Acton, Massachusetts, formerly Concord. He lived in Concord. He was a sergeant in Captain Wheeler's company in 1776 and lieutenant in 1777 in the expedition to Rhode Island. He died May 26, 1801. He married, December 23, 1767, in Concord, Elizabeth Gardiner. Children : I. John Gardiner, born August 30, 1768. 2. Mary, born October 26, 1769. 3. George, born April 7, 1771. 4. Pamela, born October 7, 1772. 5. Sarah, born January 2, 1774; married Reuben Durrant. 6. Anna, born October 17, 1775. 7. Betty, born March 9, 1777. 8. Artemus, born February 19, 1779. 9. Rufus, removed to New Hampshire and Vermont.
(IX) George Conant, son of Eli Conant (8), was born in Concord, April 7, 1771 ; re- moved to Enfield, New Hampshire; married Eunice Crossman, who was born in Bolton, Massachusetts, March 16, 1772. Children: I. Sarah, born December 16, 1791, in Fitchburg, Massachusetts ; married Bela Johnson, of En- field; she died July, 1882. 2. Andrew G., born November 14, 1795, in New Chester, New Hampshire; died March 18, 1800. 3. Mary, born November 21, 1797, in Enfield ; died October 23, 1800. 4. 'Anna, born No- vember 23, 1799; married Eben Clark, of Ca- naan, New Hampshire ; she died December 3, 1822. 5. George, born April 16, 1802; died
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January 22, 1809. 6. Mary, born August 5, 1804; married Thomas Merrill. 7. Elizabeth, born November 23, 1807; married Thomas Goodwin; she died September 6, 1871. 8. Alpheus, born March 17, 1810. 9. George W., born July 2, 1812; mentioned below.
(X) George W. Conant, son of George Co- nant (9), was born at Enfield, New Hamp- shire, July 2, 1812 ; married Louisa Ann Mer- rill, of Enfield. Children: I. Thomas Mer- rill, born 1850; resides in Boston. 2. Harriet Miriam ; married Benjamin F. Dutton in 1860. (See Dutton family sketch herewith).
The family of Dutton or DUTTON Dunton takes its name from the ancient town of Dutton, England, mentioned thrice in Domesday Book. One part of this town was held by Odard, or Udard, also spelled Hodard and Hu- dard. After Hodard received his grant from the Earl of Chester, his descendants added the name of the town to their Christian names, as John de Dutton. The family has borne a coat-of-arms, from the earliest days, and from 1060 to the present time has ranked among the leading noble families of Great Britain.
(I) Hodard, the progenitor of the family in England, came from Normandy in 1066 with William the Conqueror. In the distrib- ution of the conquered lands he received a good part of the town of Dutton, in Cheshire, and settled there. This grant came from Hugh Lupus, formerly Earl of Avranches, later Earl of Chester. The sister of Hugh Lupus married William of Normandy. One authority makes Hodard a nephew of Hugh Lupus, and therefore a nephew by marriage to the King. Hodard had five brothers-Ed- ard, Wolmere, Horswyne, Wolfarth and Ni- gell. Hodard held Aston under William Fitz- Nigell, Baron of Halton. Hodard was Lord of Dutton; according to the family record in 1665 his land was then in the custody of his lineal descendant, Lady Elinor Vicomptess Kil- morey, daughter of Thomas Dutton, and had been treasured then for some six centuries, in the possession of the direct heirs to Dutton.
(II) Hugh, son of Hodard (I), also had lands conferred by the Earl of Chester at the end of the reign of Henry I, probably at Dutton.
(III) Hugh de Dutton, son of Hugh (2), inherited the estate. Children: I. Hugh, men- tioned below. 2. Adam, ancestor of the War-
burtons. 3. Geoffrey, ancestor of the Dut- tons of Cheshire. 4. Sir Roger.
(IV) Hugh Dutton, son of Hugh de Dut- ton (3), married a daughter of the Baron of Dunham-Massy. He bought Little Moldes- worth of Robert de Moldesmith, son of Mat- thew, about 1250. He also bought Preston near Dutton, of Henry de Nuers and Julia his wife. He bought the town of Little Leigh in fee- farm from Simon, son of Osberne, and the annual rent of two marks of silver was paid many centuries by his heirs to the Earl of Derby as of his manor of Harden. He pur- chased a moiety of Barnton from William, son of Henry. Children : I. Hugh. 2. Thomas, , mentioned below. 3. John. 4. Adam.
(V) Sir Thomas Dutton, son of Hugh Dutton (4), was living in 1249 and 1268. He bought Clatterwigge, a hamlet in Little Leigh, near Barterton, from Hude de Clatterwigge, about 1244. He was sheriff of Cheshire in 1268. He built a chapel at the manor house of Dutton. He married Phillippa, daughter of Vivian de Sandon, or Standon. Children : I. Hugh, mentioned below. 2. Thomas, had lands of his father in Staffordshire. 3. Sir Robert. 4. Mary ; married William Venables. 5. Katherine, married John, son of Urian de Sancto Petro.
(VI) Sir Hugh Dutton, son of Sir Thomas Dutton (5), was born in Dutton about 1250, and died 1294. He built the county bridge at Acton Ford, about 1286. He bought Barter- ton. He married Joan de Sancto Petro, daughter of Sir Urian. Children: I. Hugh, mentioned below. 2. William of Stockport in 1305. 3. Robert, parson of Eccleston. 4. Margaret.
(VII) Sir Hugh, son of Sir Hugh Dutton (6), born December 8, 1276, married Joan Holland, daughter of Sir Robert, of Holland, in Lancashire. She married second, Edmund Talbot, of Bashall, and third, Sir John Rat- cliff, of Lancashire. She died December 24, I326. Children : I. Thomas, mentioned be- low. 2. William Parson of Thornton. 3 Geoffrey. 4. Robert.
(VIII) Sir Thomas Dutton, son of Sir Hugh Dutton (7), was born at Dutton in 1315, and died in 1381. He purchased lands formerly belonging to Halton-Fell, and also those in Dutton formerly of Boydell, of Dodleston, and this made the entire township his own. He was made seneschal, governor, and receiver of the castle and honor of Holton in Cheshire, by William Clinton, Earl of
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Huntington, and also of all lands and manors in Cheshire and Lancashire. He married first, Ellen, daughter of Sir Peter Thornton, of Thornton. He married second, Phillippa Thornton, widow of Sir Peter Thornton. She died in 1389. He was sheriff of Cheshire, and a knight. Children : I. Sir Peter. 2. Thomas. 3. Lawrence, his heir. 4. Edmund; mentioned below. 5. Henry. 6. William.
(IX) Edmund Dutton. son of Sir Thomas Dutton (8), of Dutton; married Joan, daugh- ter and heir of Henry Minshull de Church- Minshull, by whom he had the manor of Church-Manshull and Aston-Mondrau. His widow married William de Hooton. Chil- dren : I. Sir Peter, born 1367, heir to his uncle Sir Lawrence Dutton. 2. Hugh, born about 1370; mentioned below. 3. Lawrence 4. Thomas. 5. Agnes, married William Lei- cester of Nether-Tabley. 6. Ellen.
(X) Hugh Dutton, son of Edmund Dut- ton (9), was born in Dutton, about 1370. He was sheriff of Cheshire in 1422. His sec- ond wife, Emma, was the widow of Hugh Venables, of Golborne, and daughter of Nich- olas Warren, of Pointon. Children: I. John. heir ; mentioned below. 2. Randle, rector of Christleton, near Chester. 3. Hugh. 4. Eliz- abeth, married Richard Manley, of Manley.
(XI) John Dutton, son of Hugh Dutton (10) was born about 1410. He was mayor of Chester. He married Margaret Atherton, daughter of William Atherton, of Lancashire. Children : I. Peter, heir. 2. Richard, men- tioned below: 3. Geoffrey. 4. Cicely, mar- ried John Bird of Braxton. 5. Ellen, married
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(XII) Richard Dutton, son of John Dut- ton (II), of Hatton, was alderman and justice of the peace of Chester.
(XIII) Ralph Dutton, son of Richard Dut- ton (12), had sons: William and Richard.
(XIV) Richard Dutton, son of Ralph Dut- ton (13), was born about 1510.
(XV) William Dutton, son of Richard Dutton (14) was born in Chester about 1530- 40 ; married Agnes, daughter of John Conway, of Flintshire. Children: I. John, bought the manor of Sherborn in Gloucestershire ; one of the knights of that county to sit in parliament in 1640; was loyal to the king, and had to pay a large sum in consequence; left two daugh- ters, no sons. 2. Sir Ralph, mentioned below.
(XVI) Sir Ralph Dutton, son of William Dutton (15) was born about 1570-80. He was gentleman extraordinary to King Charles I, and was high sheriff of Gloucestershire in
1630. His estate was sequestered during the' civil war, and he fled from the country. His son William succeeded to the large estates of John of Sherborn, his brother. Several of his sons left the country. It may be that one or more of them settled in New England.
(I) John Dutton, the American ancestor, came to America in 1630. He was before the general court of Massachusetts, October 29, 1640. The names of Dunton and Dutton have the same origin, and in the same families the two spellings were used even as late as the Revolution. It is presumed therefore that the Dutton and Dunton pioneers at Reading, Massachusetts, may have been sons of John Dutton, viz .: I. Thomas, born 1621 ; mention- ed below. 2. Josiah, lived in Reading, near the Great Pond. 3. Robert, of Reading, came from Lynn; was selectman of Reading, 1647- 49. 4. Samuel, of Reading, born about 1620; descendants spelled name Dunton; had sons Thomas, John, Samuel, Nathaniel; died No- vember 7, 1683.
(II) Thomas Dutton, son of John (I), was born in England, in 1621. Most of the Dut- ton families of New England of colonial stock are traced to him as their ancestor. He fig- ured in two rather remarkable cases in court. He was charged with beating his wife in 1661. and was fined, notwithstanding the denials of both his wife and himself. In 1668 he brought suit against Michael Bacon, Jr., for slander in charging him with theft of a napkin and spoon. Bacon was found guilty and fined fif- teen pounds, showing that the court regarded the unfounded story as a malicious lie. At that time fifteen pounds was an enormous penalty in a case of this kind. The best men of Reading and Woburn testified to the excellent character of Dutton, and effectually disposed of any suspicion aroused by the charge of wife beating. Dutton lived in Reading seven years, and in 1668 had lived ten years in Woburn. He removed to Billerica in 1669 and was ac- cepted as an inhabitant November 22, 1669. He settled on the south side of Fox Brook, by the old and abandoned road to the Great Plain, northwest of the Davis place. He was living in Billerica in 1675, and died there January 22. 1687. His wife Susannah died August 27, 1684, aged fifty-eight years. He married sec- ond, November 10, 1684, Ruth Hooper, prob- ably widow of William Hooper, of Reading. Children of Thomas and Susannah Dutton : born at Reading: 1. Thomas, born Septem- ber, 1648. 2. Mary, born September 14. 1651, married Jacob Hamlet. 3. Susanna,
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born February 27, 1653-54; married John Durrant. 4. John, born March 28, 1658- 59. Born at Woburn: 5. Elizabeth, born January 28, 1658-59. 6. Joseph, born Janu- ary 25, 1660-61. 7. Sarah, born March 5, 1661-62 ; married April 3, 1683, Samuel Lew- is. 8. James, born August 22, 1665. 9. Benjamin, born February 19, 1667; married Joanna (Jefts) Davy, widow of Humphrey Davy.
(III) Thomas Dutton, son of Thomas Dut- ton (2), was born in Reading, Massachusetts, September 14, 1648. He married in Billerica, January 10, 1678-09, Rebecca Draper, widow, of Concord. She died March 16, 1720-21. He married second, November, 1721, Sarah Converse. He bought or had land of his fath- er in Billerica in 1670; also purchased land of John Stearns. He was in Sergeant Hill's garrison in 1675, and in the center squadron in 1707. In 1677 he served in the ill-starred expedition to the Eastward, as the Kennebec country was called. His petition to the gen- eral court (Mass. Archives, vol. Ixix, page 209) contains the best account of this expedi- tion known. Two hundred Christian Indians from Natick and forty English soldiers took part under Captain Benjamin Sweat, of Hampton. Of these, fifty men were killed by the Indians and a score more wounded. Dutton was shot through the side of his belt and through the left knee, "and fell down not able to help himself." His escape from death was marvelous. Children: I. Rebecca, born November 13, 1679; married Daniel Shed. 2. Thomas, born August 2, 1681 ; mentioned below. 3. John, born February 24, 1683-84; died December 14, 1687. 4. Susannah, born April 30, 1687; died September 3, 1688. 5. Susan, born November 4, 1687. All born at Billerica.
(IV) Thomas Dutton, son of Thomas Dut- ton (3), was born in Billerica, August 2, 1681 ; married there, January 31, 1710-II, Hannah Burge, of Chelmsford. They removed to Westford after 1738, and he died there in 1759. He and his sons resided in the vicinity of the Jonathan T. Colburn place. Children, born in Billerica: I. Joseph, born December, 1712; settled in Westford; married Rebecca Adams, of Chelmsford. 2. Thomas, born August 28, 1713; settled in Rockingham, Ver- mont ; married Mary Hill. 3. John, born Feb- ruary 13, 1714-15; mentioned below .. 4. Jo- siah, born February 21, 1716-17; resided at Nottingham West, now Hudson, New Hamp- shire ; ancestor of the Francestown family. 5.
Hannah, born August 10, 1718; died October following. 6. Rebecca (twin of Hannah), born August 10, 1718, died young. 7. Benja- min, born May 2, 1720; married, 1751, Mary Runwell. 8. James, born May 5, 1721 ; mar- ried Rebecca Hildreth. 9. Hannah, born June 13, 1723; married Joshua Frost. 10. Rebec- ca, born May 18, 1726. II. Ephraim, born January I, 1727-28. 12. David, born 22, 1731 ; ancestor of the Hancock family ; son of Henry settled in Deering; married, 1761, Esther Heald. 13. Susanna, born March 10, 1732- 33.
(V) John Dutton, son of Thomas Dutton (4), was born February 13, 1714-15, at Biller- ica, and died December 1, 1760, of smallpox. His wife died December 19, and his daughter December 17, of the same disease. He mar- ried, February 18, 1740, Rebecca, born June 5, 1720, daughter of Benjamin Shedd (or Shed), born August 5, 1696. John Shed, fa- ther of Benjamin, was born March 2, 1655; married Sarah Chamberlain. Daniel Shed, father of John, was the immigrant; settled in Braintree and removed to Billerica in 1659, buying the George Willis right of Joseph Park- er. Children, born at Billerica or Chelmsford : I. Rebecca, born January 19, 1741, died De -. cember, 1760. 2. John, born June 20, 1746, died August 19, 1749. 3. Hannah, born Oc- tober II, 1747; died September 2, 1749. 4. John, born January 16, 1750-51; soldier in Revolution ; removed to Hillsboro in 1777; selectman there 1806-08; town clerk, 1786, and for seven years afterward; moderator two years. 5. Hannah, born October 12, 1752; married, March 30, 1773, William Parker. 6. Benjamin, born May 13, 1754 ; mentioned be- low. 7. William, born January 30, 1759.
(VI) Benjamin Dutton, son of John Dut- ton (5), was born at Chelmsford, May 13, 1754. He was a private in Captain Edward Farmer's company, Colonel Green's regiment, April 19, 1775; in Captain Jonathan Stick- ney's company, Colonel Ebenezer Bridge's regiment, in the same year; and also Captain Solomon Pollard's company. All these were of Massachusetts. He removed with his brother John to Hillsboro, New Hamp -. shire, in 1777. He was on the tax list for that year, and perhaps bought his farm the year before. He married, at Billerica, Patty, daughter of Nathaniel Cummings, of Billeri- ca, February 27, 1777. Children, born at Hills- borough: 1. Jeremiah, born April 14, 1778; mentioned below. 2. Silas, born March 5, 1780; selectman of Hillsborough in 1806.
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(VII) Jeremiah Dutton, son of Benjamin Dutton (6), was born April 14, 1778. He was a farmer in Hillsboro. He married Betsey Baker. Children: I. Patty Cummings, born June 7, 1802 ; died October 10, 1839. 2. Re- becca, born September 1, 1803; died January 7, 1864 ; married, April 5, 1821, Samuel Das- comb. 3. Benjamin, born September 1, 1805; merchant in Boston; later returned to Hills- boro. 4. Ephraim, born August 25, 1807; mentioned below. 5. Betsey, born August 21, 1810; died March 18, 1856; married Samuel Gilman Barnes, November 16, 1827. 6. Silas, born October 5, 1812 ; died February 15, 1817. 7. Jeremiah, born May 31, 1818; farmer at Hillsboro. 8. Catherine, born August 18, 1820; died May 20, -; married, at Hopkin- ton, New Hampshire, Tilton Symonds. 9. Eme- line Baker, born November 30, 1824; died September 18, 1865; married July 20, 1847, Gilman Shattuck.
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