The Genealogy of one Vermonter, Darrell A. Martin

Cited documentation

1. [S56] A.M. Rev. Henry A. Hazen, History of Billerica, Massachusetts, with a Genealogical Register (Boston: A. Williams and Co., 1883), pg. 45 Dutton, "1. Thomas ... lived in Reading, where four children were born ... Thomas, 2, b. 1648, Sept. 14" but where the format requires the fullest information "2. Thomas, son of Thomas. 1, b. 1648."
2. [S76] A.M., ed. William Richard Cutter, "Dutton," Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1908).
3. [S80] James Savage, "Dutton," A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1965 Vol. II).
4. [S86] Compiler Edward F. Johnson, Woburn Records of Births, Deaths, and Marriages 1640-1873, (Woburn: Andrews, Cutler, & Co., 1890), Part III Marriages, pg. 83 in a footnote under the surname Dutton giving an account of the 1668 slander suit vs. Bacon, some citizens said that Thomas (Sr.) "Lived Amongste us in The Towne of Reeding for the Space of Seven years or Thereabouts" and others that he "lived amongst us in the Towne of woburne nere the space of tenne yeares"; The chronology of Thomas Sr's. residence as given in the suit vs. Bacon, even giving a year's leeway to both stated durations (i.e. say 8 and 11 years instead of "Seven years or Thereabouts" and "nere the space of tenne yeares"), makes his removal to Reading 1649 at the very earliest. It is more likely he arrived in 1650 or 1651. Thomas Jr's. sibling Mary is recorded as born in Reading 14 September 1651.
5. [S87] Lilley Eaton, Genealogical History of the Town of Reading, Mass. (Boston: Alfred Mudge & Sons, 1874), pg. 63, "Dutton, Thomas ... Chil.: Thomas, b. 1648."
6. [S90] Archibald F. Bennett, "The Ancestry of Joseph Smith the Prophet," The Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine (April, 1929).
7. [S167] He was possibly born in Lynn.
8. [S244] Sumner Hunnewell, " 'A Doleful Slaughter Near Black Point' The Battle at Moore's Brook, Scarborough, Maine, June 29, 1677," The Maine Genealogist (May and August, 2003): passim; esp. pgs. 53, 64, 105f, and 109f. Thomas was one of 20 men who served under Major Clarke, and the only survivor of that number. (By design the Major, aged 70, did not accompany his troops into the field.)
   
   Thomas Dutton's petition to the Massachusetts General Court is often called the best account of the event. He wrote (spelling and punctuation modernized):
   
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   Billerica this 1st of 8th month [October], 1678.
   
   To the honored governor and the rest of the honored members of the General Court [Massachusetts' governing body] now sitting in Boston October 2, 1678.
   
   The petition of Thomas Dutton Junior most humbly shows that some time in June, 1677 I was impressed into the country's service from Billerica. I was sent with some others to the Eastward under the command of the honored Major Clarke, Esq. The wise providence of the allwise God so ordered it that I was in the fatal skirmish in which Captain Swett, the worthy commander, was slain, and almost all his officers with about 50 men besides and 21 more that were wounded (to my best remembrance) of which my self was one.
   
   I was shot through the side of my belly and through my left knee, and so fell down wounded among the rest, not able to help myself. I was of a child lame in my right thigh -- my hip bone was put of of joint and never set again -- so I was now lame on both sides, besides the shot which went through my side, as aforesaid. I therefore hid myself among the bushes, not being able to stand nor go.
   
   The battle being over, the Indians came forth out of the swamp and one of them spied me in a bush, and seeing my gun in my hand, apprehended more danger than there was, and spake to the rest and they all ran away, the which I perceiving, with much difficulty crept into the swamp and covered myself with mud and dirt. The Indians quickly returned to the place to look for me, and fired into the bush where the Indian did see me, and they sought diligently for me. But it pleased the Lord, they could not find me.
   
   Then in the night after all was still, I crept out of the swamp toward the garrison about a mile and a half, and what with my bleeding and great pain I was not able to go one rod farther. It was the more difficult for me to creep because I was shot through one of my knees but there I lay down and thought I must die before morning. But the Lord who orders all things according to the counsel of His own will, so ordered that another wounded soldier came by me in the night a little before day and so took my condition to the Captain of the garrison, who sent forth men immediately and found me and brought me into the garrison -- who had much ado to keep life in me.
   
   I was sent by the first opportunity to Salem, where I came upon the 2nd of July. From that time until the 28th of January I remained under the hands of Doctor Welds, as will appear by his certificate which I gave to the honored council.
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   Hunnewell says, "More English and friendly Indians from Massachusetts died in this one military action in Maine than at any other time during the war. It was a devastating blow to the colony ..."
   
9. [S76] A.M., ed. William Richard Cutter, Dutton, citing "Mass. Archives, vol. xix, page 209."
10. [S87] Lilley Eaton, Genealogical History of the Town of Reading, Mass., pg. 63, "Dutton, Thomas ... His son Thomas was in the Indian war at the East, and had a remarkable escape in 1677 when many were killed."
11. [S56] A.M. Rev. Henry A. Hazen, History of Billerica, Massachusetts, with a Genealogical Register, pg. 45 Dutton, "2. Thomas ... m. 1678-9, Jan. 11, Mrs. Rebecca Draper, widow."
12. [S81] Vital Records of Billerica to 1850, (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1908), pg. 249 Dutton marriages, "Thomas Jr. and Rebeckah (dup. Rebecca) Draper, wid., of Concord, Jan. 1 1678-9" intention not recorded ("Rebeccah" in Middlesex County record).
13. [S86] Compiler Edward F. Johnson, Woburn Records of Births, Deaths, and Marriages 1640-1873, Part III Marriages, pg. 84, "Thomas Dutton, Jr., of Billerica."
14. [S56] A.M. Rev. Henry A. Hazen, History of Billerica, Massachusetts, with a Genealogical Register, pg. 45 Dutton, "2. Thomas ... m. 1721, Nov., Sarah Convers."
15. [S86] Compiler Edward F. Johnson, Woburn Records of Births, Deaths, and Marriages 1640-1873, Part III Marriages, pg. 84, "Thomas Dutton, Jr., of Billerica and Sarah Converse, at Billerica, Nov. --, 1721."
16. [S81] Vital Records of Billerica to 1850, pg. 250 Dutton marriages, "Thomas and Sarah Convers, Nov. --, 1721" intention not recorded.