Anderson-Sipple Family Tree » William Tilden Sutton (1641-1718)

Personal data William Tilden Sutton 

• He was born on May 25, 1641 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA.Sources 1, 2, 4, 7, 9, 11
• Properties:
• in the year 1682 349 acres, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA.Source 10
• in the year 1682 249 acres, Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA.Source 4
• Religion: Quaker.Sources 4, 7, 10
• Resident in the year 1669: Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA.Source 8
• He died on April 28, 1718 in Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA, he was 76 years old.Sources 1, 2, 4, 9, 10, 11, 13
• He is buried in Little Quaker Churchyard, Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten.Source 11
• A child of George Ambrose Sutton and Sarah Tilden

Household of William Tilden Sutton

(1) He is married to Damaris Bishop.

They got married on July 11, 1666 at Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA, he was 25 years old.Sources 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 12, 14

Child(ren):

1. William Sutton  1668-1668
2. Alice Sutton  1668-????
3. Thomas Sutton  1669-> 1754 
4. Mary Sutton  1671-± 1740
5. William Sutton  1672-????
6. Damaris Sutton  1673-1733
7. John David Sutton  1674-1750 
8. Judah Sutton  -1750 
9. Richard Sutton  1676-???? 
10. Joseph Sutton  1678-1682
11. Benjamin Sutton  -1682
12. Daniel Sutton  -1761 

(2) He is married to Jane Barnes.

They got married on January 9, 1684/85 at Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA, he was 42 years old.Sources 2, 4, 7, 9, 10

Child(ren):

1. Joseph Sutton  1693-1772

Notes about William Tilden Sutton

https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=9255901

William
b.5/25/1641 Scituate, Plymouth Co, MA
d. 4/28/1718 Piscataway, Middlesex Co, NJ
m.1. 7/11/1667 Eastham, Barnstable Co, MA to Damaris Bishop b. 1646 Scituate, Plymouth Co, MA d. 2/26/1682-83 Piscataway, Middlesex, NJ d/o Richard Bishop & Alice Martin m.2. 1/9/1683-84 Piscataway, Middlesex Co, NJ to Jane Barnes b. 7/11/1666 Piscataway, Middlesex Co, NJ

Family links:
Parents:
George Sutton (1613 - 1669)
Sarah Tilden Sutton (1612 - 1676)

Spouses:
Damaris Martin Bishop Sutton (1646 - 1682)*
Jane Barnes Sutton (1666 - ____)*

Children:
Thomas Sutton (1669 - 1754)*
John David Sutton (1674 - 1750)*
Joseph Sutton (1685 - 1775)*

Siblings:
Joseph Sutton (1637 - 1694)*
Daniel Sutton (1639 - 1710)*
William Sutton (1641 - 1718)
John Sutton (1642 - 1691)*
Nathaniel Sutton (1643 - 1682)*
Lydia Sutton (1646 - 1647)*
Sarah Sutton (1648 - 1649)*
Sarah Sutton (1650 - 1714)*
Elizabeth Sutton (1653 - 1669)*

Genealogical Notes of the Sutton Family of New Jersey

WILLIAM SUTTON.
The first of the family of whom we have record
was William Sutton, who appears in Massachusetts
in 1666, at Eastham on Cape Cod. As
the stream of Puritan immigration had almost
dried up twenty years before this date,* it is
extremely probable that he represents the second
generation in New England. Their proximity
suggests a relationship to one or the other of two
families of Suttons, respectively, of Hinghamf *~ #a aI»^.c»##
and Scituate, X small towns ofj|old_ Plymouth
Colony directly across the bay from Eastham.
Careful investigation, however, has failed as
yet to establish a connection with either, or to
suggest any other line of research. Our history
opens, therefore, at Eastham, on the eleventh of
July, 1666, with the marriage of William Sutton,
yeoman (aged probably twenty-five years), of either English birth or descent, to Damaris,
daughter of Alice and Richard Bishop.* Eastham,
originally called Nausett, after the name of
a local Indian tribe, was at this date a settlement
of some twenty years' standing, and numbered
some four or five dozen souls—a tiny outpost of
English life and civilization, planted upon the
"narrow neck of land" between the bleak bay
and the bleaker Atlantic. It was in this very year
of 1666 that tidings began to spread through New
England of the founding of another colony down
in the southwest, between the great North f and
South Rivers, where settlers were welcome, the
Indians friendly, the soil and climate excellent,
and civil and religious liberty guaranteed.
Many people from all parts of the land of the
Puritans migrated to this new country of "the
Jerseys;" and about the year 1672 William
Sutton also removed, and became a landholder
under Berkeley and Carteret. As Cape Cod was
one of the few districts in New England where
Quakerism gained a footing, and as WilliamSutton in his New Jersey home was an influential
Quaker, it is very probable that matters of re ligious
belief had much to do with his departure
from Eastham. In the year 1666 a "plantation"
of some forty thousand acres was laid out upon
the banks of the Raritan, within the bounds of
the present Middlesex County, and not far from
the spot where a few years later New Brunswick
was founded. Its possession was confirmed not
only by the white man' s title, but by deed from
Canackawack and Thingorawis, chiefs of the
Naraticong Indians, who were a branch of the
Lenni Lenape. As the settlers were mostly from
those parts of New Hampshire and Maine which
border the Piscataqua River, they called it Piscataqua
or Piscataway, in memory of their old
home. Here William Sutton pitched his tent,
and prospered ; for, thanks to fair dealings with
the Indians, the wolves and the forest were the
only enemies. In 1682, when the town and
township numbered some four hundred souls, he
was owner of two hundred and forty-nine acres of
land, burdened only by the nominal quit-rent of
one-half penny per acre annually. Small items
of his life, grave or humorous, we glean from the
records of more than two centuries ago. A
Quaker, he was a pillar of the congregation thatmet in the neighboring town of Woodbridge. We
see him a person of some honor in the little community
: chosen freeholder at one time, constable
at another, town-clerk at another, and we find
that, with advancing years, his services were desired
upon boards of church discipline and inquiry.
It is recorded that he contributed "a year old
steer" toward the proposed erection of the
Friends' Meeting House at Woodbridge—a dona tion
that seems to have been a thorn in the flesh
of the finance committee. For two years they
were unable to convert the animal into cash, and
were obliged to board it during three winters at
exorbitant rates, varying from six to eight and
one-half shillings per winter. The growth of
sons to man's estate and matrimony, is marked
in the records by such entries as this
:
" William Sutton hath, in consideration of fatherly love and
affection, given and granted to Daniel Sutton, his son, 75 acres
of land."
Finally, in 1713, William is spoken of as an
aged man, and we hear of him no more. Doubtless
another year or two brought the end of his
homely and laborious life, and rest in the little
Quaker Churchyard at Woodbridge.
Damaris Bishop, first wife of William Sutton,
died in Piscataway, February 6, 1682-3. He married, in that town, Jane Barnes, January 9, 1684-5.

…WILLIAM first appears in 1666 on Cape Cod
at Barnstable, a town which was founded l639""l640
by a mass emigration from Soituate led by the Rev.
John Lothrop. The early relations between the
two towns were, therefore, particularly close.
The earliest churoh records of Soituate are still
preserved at Barnstable, whither they were carried
when the latter was founded.
for the love of laughter, it should be
noted that WILLIAM makes his first appearance in
history because of his borrowing — quite un~
authorisedly ~ the Bible from the Barnstable
meeting house. When oaught, he was not frank
about the matter, and so, June 5# l666, he was
hailed to oourt, and fined for purloining the
Bible "one pound, and for telling a lye about
the same, ten shillings." His departure from
the town was probably expedited by these occurrence!
, and a few weeks later at the neighboring
settlement of Eastham, he took refuge in
matrimony with Damaris Bishop.
WILLIAM SUTTON was a Quaker. If he wasft son of GEORGE of Soituate, as we bell ore,
one might suppose he was named for William
Hatoh, his father's most intimate friend,
gain one might suppose that the names of
his mother's family, the Tildens, would reappear
in that of WILLIAM* This is so far
the ease that three of WILLIAM'S children,
THOMAS, MARY and JOSEPH, beftr the names of
their Tilden uneles and aunt. Lastly,
WILLIAM had a son DANIEL, Now the DANIEL
whom we believe to hare been son of GEORGE
of Soituate, and who first appears at
Charleston, with wife MART and son DANIEL
(Charlestown being a part of Boston, and
Soituate being located almost on Boston
Harbor) was a Quaker, and left descendants
at Burlington, in the Quaker colony of West
Jersey, some forty miles by the New Tork -
Philadelphia post road from Pi scat away in
East Jersey, where WILLIAM resided* In
1706 it is reeorded that WILLIAM thought
of removing thenoe to Burlington* DANIEL
is mentioned frequently in the Burlington archives
and once in connection with a RICHARD
SUTTON, otherwise unrecorded, who may have
been the RICHARD who was WILLIAM'S son.
Thus, times, plaoes, religions, and
family names oonour so well, that WILLIAM
and DANIEL have been tentatively interpolated
among the children of GEORGE and SARAH
SUTTON*

Name:Maria Sutton
Gender:Female
Christening Date:
Christening Place:
Birth Date:04 Oct 1671
Birthplace:, EASTHAM, BARNSTABLE, MASSACHUSETTS
Death Date:
Name Note:
Race:
Father's Name:William Sutton
Father's Birthplace:
Father's Age:
Mother's Name:Darmaris
Mother's Birthplace:
Mother's Age:
Indexing Project (Batch) Number:C50246-5
System Origin:Massachusetts-ODM
GS Film number:778357
Reference ID:

Citing this Record:
"Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZDF-3P5 : 4 December 2014), William Sutton in entry for Maria Sutton, 04 Oct 1671; citing , EASTHAM, BARNSTABLE, MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 778,357.

Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania
page 1066-1067

(I) WILLIAMSUTTONwas in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, prior to 1666,
the exact year of his coming being unknown. As the stream of Puritan immigration
had almost disappeared twenty years before this date (Bancroft: “History of
the United States,” Vol. I, p. 468) it is very probable that he represented the second
generation in New England. Their proximity suggests a relationship to one or the
other of the two Sutton families of Scituate and Hingham, respectively. These
small towns of old Plymouth Colony were directly across the bay from Eastham.
He was sent up before the court of the province in connection with a Bible he had
removed from the meetinghouse. He was not a resident of Eastham, where the
court proceedings were held’,and does not appear to have been a landowner there.
There would seem to be no doubt that the Bible he was accused of taking from the
meetinghouse was his own property, and that, being a devout Quaker, he was
desirous of taking it with him to New Jersey, to which Colony he soon after
migrated. Puritans held very little respect for Quakers, and the latter were not
equably dealt with.
As shown by the records of his marriage and the births of three children, he
lived in Eastham from I666 to October, 1671. Likewise, the birth record of his
child, in April, 1671, at Piscataway, Middlesex County, New Jersey, shows that
he “went West” to New Jersey about I672 or 1673. The quest of religious freedom
was perhaps the reason for his removal, since in the New Jersey Colony he was an
influential Quaker. The first record of the William Sutton family in New Jersey
occurs January 30, 1677, when there were surveyed to him one hundred and twenty
acres. This is recorded in the Elizabethtown bill-in—chancery. Subsequently there
were several other surveys made in his name.
On or near the Raritan River, not far from the present town of New Brunswick,
William Sutton settled and prospered, for thanks to his fair dealings with the
Indians the wolves and forest were his only enemies. In 1682 he was the owner
of two hundred and forty-nine acres of land, burdened only by the nominal quitrent
of one-half penny per acre annually. He held the offices of freeholder, constable
and town clerk and also served on boards of church discipline and inquiry at
different times. He contributed a “year-old steer” toward the erection of a Friends’
Meeting House at Woodbridge, New Jersey. It is a matter of humorous interest
that the “young steer” became a liability rather than an asset, as it was boarded out
for several winters at a rather high price and there is no record of it having been sold. In 1713 he was spoken of as an aged man and he was buried in the Quaker
churchyard at Woodbridge. William Sutton died at Woodbridge, New Jersey,
4 mo. 28, 1718, as shown by the Friends’ records of that place.
There was another grant to William Sutton, March 25, 1687, of one hundred
and twenty-five acres, twenty—fiveof which was due his wife, Jane, as “Headland,”
thereby proving that Jane Barnes was the immigrant or the first of her family in
New Jersey. She was probably the “Widow Jane Barnes, of London,” who was
given deed to one “twenty-fourth share in the East Jersey Company. William Sutton,
constable of Piscataway, returned Thomas Fitz Randolph elected as representa tive,
August 28, 1695.
William Sutton, yeoman, aged probably twenty—fiveyears, married (first), at
Eastham, Massachusetts, July 11, I666, Damaris Bishop. (Bishop II.) He married
(second) in Piscataway, New Jersey, January 9, 1684-85, Jane Barnes. Children
of the first marriage:
. Alice, born May 13, 1668.
. Thomas, born November 11, 1669; married, in April, 1693, Mary Adams.
Mary, born October 4, 1671; married, December 23, 1689, Daniel McDaniel.
. John, born April 20, 1674; died in 1750; married Elizabeth.
Judah, born January 24, 1674-75; married Emma Canter (or Carter or Cauter).
. Richard, born July 18, 1676; died in 1732; married, January 25, 1702, Sarah Runyon.
. Joseph, born June 27, 1678; died December 19, 1682.
. Benjamin, born February 24, 1679-80; died December 22, 1682.
. Daniel, of whom further. xooo\!oxo1-I=<,»m~
Child of the second marriage:
10. Joseph, born September 11, 1693; died March 17, 1772; married, December 25, 1718,
Priscilla Langstaff.
(E. F. H. Sutton: “Genealogical Notes of the Sutton Family of New Jersey,” pp. 6-10.
J. Savage: “Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New‘ England,” Vol. IV, pp.
233-34. J. W. Dally: “History of Woodbridge,” pp. 66-70. W. A. Whitehead: “Early History
of Perth Amboy,” pp. 401-03. “New Jersey Historical Society Proceedings,” New Series,
Vol. IV, pp. 40, 42. “Library of Cape Cod Genealogy,” No. 32, p. 16. “Early Germans of New
Jersey,” p. 513. “Friends’ Records of Deaths in and About Woodbridge, New Jersey, 17051892,”
p. 2. “New Jersey Archives,” 1st Series, Vol. XXI, pp. 98, 120, 159.)

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