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Jack SUTTON

I am also a Sutton researcher and would like to add more questions than answers.
I can also give you facts on some of the questions on the site.

I. John Sutton, husband of Ann Turner, is he the son of Thomas Sutton and Elizabeth Lewerton?
There is conflicting information if so.
Some state that John Sutton, son of Thomas and Elizabeth, married a woman named Mary and fathered two children in Bertie County.
His son William married Sarah Warburton and his daughter Amelia is said to have married Thomas Rascoe.
One theory must be wrong.
We do know that John Sutton, son of Thomas and Elizabeth, was left land adjacent to his brothers George and Thomas Sutton Jr. in the 1750 will of their father.
Evidence suggests that he would have stayed in Bertie County as he would have enjoyed greater wealth in this area. The John Sutton listed near Mary Sutton Hardy did not appear to be a man of great property or a large slaveholder.

I agree that the John Sutton of Lenoir is probably not from New Jersey. Are all the John Suttons of Bertie County accounted for?

I think that Joseph Sutton and Deliverance Nicholson had a son named John. I always assumed he was the John Sutton mentioned as clerk of the court in the 1720s of Bertie County.
I don't know much about him.

Joseph Sutton, the son of Joseph Sutton and Deliverance Nicholson, married Rebecca Jones. He also had a son named John. Don't know what happened to him?
He had siblings Christopher, Mary, Elizabeth, Sarah, and Hannah. Christopher later appears in Sampson County records. He lives near his uncle John Moss Jones who relocated from Bertie to Sampson.

II. Thomas W Sutton of Sampson County.
He is my line and someone I am very much interested in.
Fact: The earliest recorded Sutton land grant in Duplin County was in 1765to Joseph Sutton.
It is believed to be in the area of Duplin that later became Sampson.
Ima Mewborn turned me on to the theory that Thomas of Sampson was the son of Joshua Sutton, son of Thomas Sutton and his second wife, Judith Hardison. I must say there is interesting data to support a connection.
Joshua Sutton appears to have married Catherine Ashburn. He and she both appear on a deed in the 1760s along with Thomas Ashburn and Benjamin Ashburn. Joshua died in 1771 and his children are named in the 1781 will of their grandfather of Thomas Ashburn as Thomas, Mary and Elizabeth.
Thomas Ashburn is listed in the deeds as being a neighbor of Andrew Thompson, Archibald Bell, George Bell, and Thomas Ryan.
These men are all the original settlers of Duplin County north of the TurkeyCreek.

Joshua Sutton, in the 1750 will of his father, was left land adjacent to Henry King.
Henry King died in Duplin County in 1762.

I like this theory for Thomas of Sampson but I can't figure out why none of his descendants ever named a child Catherine or Joshua???
Doesn't seem right.

We also have the Joseph Sutton granted land in 1765 in Duplin.
Who is he?

In one of the 1760 tax lists for Bertie Joseph Sutton Esquire, Judge in Bertie County, is listed with an adult son Thomas and 18 slaves.
Jos Sutton Esq is the son of Joseph Sutton and Parthenia Durant and the brother or Thomas Sutton who died in 1750.
Jos Sutton Esq is one of the only surviving male heirs of his grandmother Deborah Astine Sutton Wedbee McClendon.
His adul son Thomas disappears from the Bertie county records after that.

In the 1790 census of Sampson County, there are two Thomas Suttons. One lives next to a McClendon. He could have been listed twice. One has one less child than the other and one less slave. They could be father and son which would support the Thomas of Sampson being a son of a Thomas.

Thomas Sutton of Sampson was a gentleman and appears to have inherited established property in Sampson County.
He later served in the House of Commons and owned much more land than the 98 acres granted to him for service in the revolution.

Then, if you look at the Bladen County Suttons, the picture gets more confusing.

III. Fact on the project that needs to be updated.

1840 death of Issac Crow- land inherited in Wayne Co by Sylvia and Matilda Sutton.
Sylvia and Matilda are Crow Sisters. Issac was their elder brother.
Sylvia married Luke Whitfield Sutton, my ancestor, he died in 1837. Matilda married his brother Benjamin Sutton.
Luke and Benjamin are both sons of Thomas Sutton of Sampson County.
Matilda Crow and Sylvia Crow were the daughters of Thomas Crow and Ann Pipkin, dtr of Willis Pipkin and granddaughter of Joseph.
This can definitely be updated.

Anyway thanks for reading my babbling.
Curious about the conflicting information on the Johns.

The 1765 land grant in Duplin for a Joseph is interesting too!
1790 census are the two Thomas Suttons the same person or father and son-also interesting?

Love your site.
Jack Sutton

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