George Ambrose SUTTON^[1]

1613 - 1669  (56 years)

• Name	George Ambrose SUTTON
  Born	12 Apr 1613	Tenterden, Kent, England
  Gender	Male
  Immigrant Flag	Y
  Immigration	1634	“Hercules”
  Military Flag	Y
  Military	Militia - Scituate 1643
  Occupation	Constable of Sciutate, MA, 1647
  Religion	Quaker
  Died	12 Apr 1669	Albemarle Co, VA
  Person ID	I3844	main
  Last Modified	10 Aug 2017

  
  

  Father	Robert Ambrose SUTTON,   b. 1587, Kelvedon, Essex, England ,   d. 1676, Hempstead, Long Island, NY  (Age 89 years)
  Mother	Sarah WARNER,   b. 3 Mar 1589, Kelvedon, Essex, England ,   d. 1680, Watertown, Middlesex, MA  (Age 90 years)
  Married	25 Aug 1613	England
  Family ID	F2024	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah TILDEN,   b. Jan 1613, Tenterden, Kent, England ,   d. 20 Mar 1677, Albemarle Co, VA  (Age ~ 64 years)
  Married	13 Mar 1635/6	Scituate, Plymouth, MA
  Children	+ 1. Joseph SUTTON,   b. Abt 1637, Scituate, Plymouth, MA ,   d. 17 Jan 1694/5, Perquimans Co, NC  (Age ~ 58 years) + 2. Daniel SUTTON,   b. 20 Nov 1639, Scituate, Plymouth, MA ,   d. 10 Mar 1710, Burlington, Burlington, NJ  (Age 70 years) + 3. William SUTTON,   b. 25 May 1641, Scituate, Plymouth, MA ,   d. 28 Apr 1718, Piscataway, Middlesex, NJ  (Age 76 years) + 4. John SUTTON,   b. 1642, Scituate, Plymouth, MA ,   d. 12 Nov 1691, Southold NJ  (Age 49 years) + 5. Nathaniel SUTTON,   b. Abt 1643, Scituate, Plymouth, MA ,   d. 29 Dec 1682, Perquimans Co, NC  (Age ~ 39 years)   6. Lydia SUTTON,   b. 13 Sep 1646, Scituate, Plymouth, MA ,   d. Abt 1647, Scituate, Plymouth, MA  (Age 0 years)   7. Sarah SUTTON,   b. 3 Dec 1648, Scituate, Plymouth, MA ,   d. Abt 1649, Scituate, Plymouth, MA  (Age 0 years)   8. Elizabeth SUTTON,   b. 28 Aug 1653, Scituate, Plymouth, MA ,   d. 21 Jan 1699, Perquimans Co, NC  (Age 45 years)
  Last Modified	12 Sep 2017
  Family ID	F1282	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 12 Apr 1613 - Tenterden, Kent, England Died - 12 Apr 1669 - Albemarle Co, VA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  George and his wife migrated to North Carolina in 1729 to avoid the Quaker persecution in MA. initially this land was held by Lords Proprietors and their descendants who were reciepients of this land as a gift from the King. George Ambrose Sutton died at the age of 56 on his birthday April 12, 1669 in Albemarle County, Perquimans Dist, North Carolina. —— Sailed from Sandwich, Kent, England in 1634 on the ship Hercules & settled in Scituate, MA. Listed on ship’s manifest as servant of Nathaniel Tilden. About 1668, after Plymouth Colony enacted penal laws against the Quakers, George Sutton immigrated to North Carolina with most of his family to escape religious persecution. He died in what is now Perquimans Co, NC within a year of leaving Massachusetts. He was a planter in Scituate from Mar 5, 1638/39 to 1643. He was also a town officer. He had lands laid out on 1st Herring Brook. His house was near John Daman's at the SW end of Greenfield Lane where it unites with the Driftway. He and his family were Church of England until sometime after 1650 when he and his family pursued the Quaker Faith. In 1668 he emigrated to Perquimans, NC because of Quaker persecution in Massachusetts. All of his family went except Daniel who went to Burlington, West Jersey and William, who went to Eastham, MA and then Piscataway, Middlesex, NJ

  
  

• Sources

  [S62] Hanson_001 gedcom file, Christine Jones.