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Susannah Palmer

Susannah Palmer[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]

Female 1626 - 1684  (58 years)


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  • Name Susannah Palmer  [1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] 
    Birth 1626  Cheshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 5, 6, 7] 
    Gender Female 
    Death 27 Aug 1684  Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4, 5, 6, 7] 
    Burial Sep 1684  [5] 
    Person ID I312684223139  Oswald Genealogy
    Last Modified 15 Jun 2025 

    Family 1 Thomas Dutton,   b. 06 Oct 1621, Dutton, Cheshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 09 Nov 1648  Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Thomas Dutton, II,   b. 14 Sep 1648, Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]
     2. Mary Dutton,   b. 14 Nov 1651, Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 09 Jul 1678, Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 26 years)  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]
     3. John Dutton,   c. 28 Mar 1656, Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 07 Apr 1735, Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 79 years)  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]
     4. James Dutton,   b. 22 Aug 1665, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Jul 1755, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 89 years)  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]
     5. Sarah Dutton,   b. Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Dec 1738, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]
     6. Joseph Dutton,   b. Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]
     7. Elizabeth Dutton,   b. Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 07 Apr 1698, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]
     8. Susannah Dutton,   b. Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Dec 1723, Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]
     9. Benjamin Dutton,   b. Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. , , Massachusetts, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]
    Family ID F2571  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 15 Jun 2025 

    Family 2 Samuel Dutton,   b. 1620, Dutton, Cheshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F2574  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 15 Jun 2025 

  • Notes 
    • History
      Thomas Dutton and his wife Susanna were in Reading by the year 1651 when their eldest daughter and second child, Mary, was born. According to a deposition made in 1668 Thomas and family lived in "Reading for the Space of Seven yeares or Thereabouts" before moving to Woburn where they were said to "having lived amongst us in the Towne of Woburne nere the space of tenne yeare." That would put the Dutton's in Woburn by the year 1658 which accords well with the birth records of both Reading and Woburn. The last child of Thomas and Susana born in Reading was in 1656 and the first child in Woburn in 1659. Thomas did not receive an allotment in the 1652 distribution of lots in Reading but he did get a piece of meadow in the 1655 distribution of meadow "downe below the falls".

      In Woburn, Thomas rented a "dwelling house Barne orchard together with all the meddow & uppland there unto apertayning". The lease, signed on December 17, 1656, ran for seven years from the following February 15 at £7 per year to be paid in wheat, rye and indian corn. The rent was to be delivered to the house of John Carter who lived next door. Both John Carter's farm and the one leased by Thomas Dutton had originally belonged to Carter's father, Thomas, who, in 1647, divided his property between his son John and his son-in-law William Greene. After Greene's death, his widow married Thomas Browne who soon began complaining of encroachments by Carter upon the property. A neighbor later remembered that "goodwife browne and her husband tould mee that they had thoughts to remove their hows beecose of this desturbance." The overseers of Greene's will, Edward Johnson and John Carter, leased the farm to Dutton in the name of Greene's children and heirs.

      By 1658 Thomas Dutton was embroiled in a court case against John Carter, having accused him of moving the boundary stakes between the two properties and building a shed and an extension of his house on the land so gained. Testimony in the case indicates that several neighbors gathered on the disputed property to consider Dutton's charges. He indicated a fence and charged "This tow rayle fence standeth upon the [Greene's] childrens land." Insisting that Dutton's charges were false, John Carter pointed out a boundary marker as proof that the boundary was just asserting "this stake is the towns." The deponent, William Johnson, looked at the stake but was unconvinced: "noe said I this can not bee it for here it is surlee newly [ ] and that it would not be if it had stood soe many years." His father agreed and further noted that "it did not [ ]aing even with the barne and th[at] it shold doe if it were the stake."

      Johnson described his next move: "then I having a sticke in my hand serched up and downe upon t[ ] and at last the sticke went in to the ould stake hole as wee all did judge it being couered almost with” dirt.
      "I doe bee leve that this is the ould stake hole [ ] even with the barne," exclaimed another neighbor, "and had I not seene him serch up an downe with the sticke and it went in [ ] un awars I shold not have beeleived it: for the ground was hard all about it."
      "Then says Thomas Dutton [the other] is here about and serching finds one put upin acorner amongst potts." Another man took the stake from Thomas and "put it into the hole and it filled and fitted it very well." From which evidence they deduced Thomas' charges to be true.

      The Duttons in America are of Saxon nativity. The ancient family of Duttons assumed their sirname from the place of their residence- Duntune- now contracted Dutton, a township about five miles east of Frodsham, on the river Wever in Cheshire. The Duttons emigrated to New England about 1630, many of whose descendants settled in Connecticut

      1. Susannah Palmer b. Essex Parish Regis
      1. Susannah Palmer b. Essex Parish Registers f. John Palmer M. Mary
      2. Thomas Dutton & Susannah md 1648, New England
      3. Susanna Dutton, b. abt 1626, death 27 Aug 1684, Billerica, Massachusetts, age 58, husband Thomas

      !BIRTH: American Families; SLK Gen
      !BIRTH: American Families; SLK Gen and Hearldic;AIS of Joseph Smith; Sacramento FHL; Death at age 58ORDINATION: Stamped Archive Sheet; MARRIAGE: New England MarriagesPrior to 1700; Clarence A. Torrey;

      Birth Name
      Information in her death record indicates that Susannah was born about 1626.

      She is often referred to as "Susannah Palmer", but there is no evidence that can support this identification.

      The 1650 will of Barbara Palmer of Leicester mentions a cousin "Susanna Dutten" however, it is not certain that this Susanna was born a Palmer, nor even that she was Thomas' wife.

      A Susannah married Thomas Dutton possibly in Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, around 1647. Susannah died on 27 August 1684 in Billerica, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, at "about" age 58.

      A birth date of 1626 strongly suggests that she was born in England and emigrated to New England.

      The only cemetery in existance at the time of her death in Billerica was the South Burying Ground, which dates from 1663.

      That cemetery is probably where she was buried.

      !SOURCE: GSSLC Archives records, History
      !SOURCE: GSSLC Archives records, History of Billerica; History of Homes, & Cutter; Gen. of NE; Frances Dittman, 6400 Los Gatos Rd, Atascadero, CA 93422

      ! Genealogy of New England Vol 1-2nd Ser
      ! Genealogy of New England Vol 1-2nd Series P 194 Am 14 b Vol 1 pp 194-195 V.R. Reading Massachusets R1 a pt 1 P 71

  • Sources 
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    3. [S1173462465] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, England, Select Essex, Parish Registers, 1538-1900.

    4. [S1173462465] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, Book Title: Genealogy of the Dutton family of Pennsylvania, preceded by a history of the family in England from the time of William the Conqueror to the year 1669; with an appendix containing a short account of the Duttons of Conn.

    5. [S1173462472] FamilySearch.org, Find a Grave Index, "Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVGH-8D24 : Fri Apr 04 03:06:59 UTC 2025), Entry for Susanna Palmer Dutton.

    6. [S1173462605] FamilySearch.org, Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHDV-N3Y : Fri Mar 08 19:05:31 UTC 2024), Entry for Susanah and Tho. Sen. Dutton, 27 August 1684.

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