George SUTTON^[1]

1613 - 1669  (56 years)

• Name	George SUTTON
  Born	12 Apr 1613	Kent, England
  Gender	Male
  Migration	1634	“Hercules”
  Occupation	Constable of Sciutate, MA, 1647
  Questions	Need to confirm parents
  Religion	Quaker
  Military Event	Militia - Scituate 1643
  Immigrant?	Y
  Identured flag	Y
  Military Flag	Y
  Confirmed Ancestor?	Y
  Parents Unproven	Y
  Died	12 Apr 1669	Perquimans County, N Carolina
  Buried	unknown   [2]
  Person ID	I3844	Main
  Last Modified	17 Jan 2024

  
  

  Father	Robert SUTTON,   b. Abt 1580, England ,   d. 8 Jul 1626, Biddenden, Kent, England  (Age ~ 46 years)
  Mother	Mary AUSTEN,   b. Abt 1585, Kent, England ,   d. 8 Mar 1621, Biddenden, Kent, England  (Age ~ 36 years)
  Married	13 Oct 1606	Biddenden, Kent, England   [3]
  Family ID	F2024	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah TILDEN,   b. 1 Jan 1613, Tenterden, Kent, England ,   d. 20 Mar 1677, Perquimans County, N Carolina  (Age 64 years)
  Married	13 Mar 1637	Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts
  Children	+ 1. Joseph SUTTON,   b. Abt 1637, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts ,   d. 17 Jan 1695, Perquimans County, N Carolina  (Age ~ 58 years) + 2. Daniel SUTTON,   b. 20 Nov 1639, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts ,   d. 10 Mar 1710, Burlington, Burlington, New Jersey  (Age 70 years) + 3. William Tilden SUTTON,   b. 25 May 1641, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts ,   d. 28 Apr 1718, Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey  (Age 76 years) + 4. Nathaniel SUTTON,   b. Abt 1643, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts ,   d. 29 Dec 1682, Perquimans County, N Carolina  (Age ~ 39 years) + 5. John SUTTON,   b. 1642, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts ,   d. 12 Nov 1691, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts  (Age 49 years)   6. Lydia SUTTON,   b. 13 Sep 1646, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts ,   d. Abt 1647, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts  (Age 0 years)   7. Sarah SUTTON,   b. Abt 1648, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts ,   d. Abt 1649, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts  (Age ~ 1 years)   8. Sarah SUTTON,   b. 15 Sep 1650, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts ,   d. 20 Mar 1717  (Age 66 years)   9. Elizabeth SUTTON,   b. 28 Aug 1653, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts ,   d. 21 Jan 1700, Perquimans County, N Carolina  (Age 46 years)
  Last Modified	17 Jan 2024
  Family ID	F1282	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Married - 13 Mar 1637 - Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts Died - 12 Apr 1669 - Perquimans County, N Carolina  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Photos

  sutton-newby-home Sutton-Newby Home in Perquimins County. Original land belonging to George and Sarah Sutton, home reportedly being built in 1745 by Joseph Sutton II (1707-1771), son of Joseph and Parthenia.

  
  

  Histories

  The Good Ship Hercules 1634 Passenger list

  
  

• 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 recipients of this land as a gift from the King. George Sutton died at the age of 56 on his birthday April 12, 1669 in Albemarle County, Perquimans Dist, North Carolina. Note: There are no records showing his middle name as “Ambrose.” —— 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 —— On 4 December 1638, “George Sutton” was one of eight Scituate men “presented for receiving strangers & foreigners into their houses & lands, without license of the Governor or Assistant, or acquainting the town of Scittuate therewith” (annotated in the margin “all discharged 5th month, 1638, [1639] by the Court”}[PCR 1:106]. On 18 January 1643/4, “Georg[e] Sutton of the same [Scituate], planter,” was surety for James Till [PCT 2:68]. John Sutton of Scituate was not a son this immigrant, but of JOHN SUTTON [NEHGR 91:61-65]. No records for George Sutton and his family have been found in Plymouth Colony after 1654 [PCR 7:129]. About that time, George Sutton was already showing some knowledge of Virginia. Another passenger on the Hercules, William Hatch, son of William Hatch [1635, Scituate] [GM 2:3:241-44], made his will on 13 September 1653, describing himself as “of Scittuate … being upon a journey to Virginia”; one of the witnesses was George Sutton, who testified that “I received this of William Hatch sign and sealed and he told me it was his own act and deed” [PCPR 2:44; Joseph Neal And 118]. Note: Thomas HATCHE (5077) is his wife’s Grandfather. ASSOCIATIONS: George Sutton was almost certainly closely related to SIMON SUTTON , also a passenger on the Hercules and also a servant to NATHANIEL TILDEN (1635, Scituate}. [1, 4]

  
  

• Sources

  [S41] The Great Migration Study Project, Anderson, Robert Charles, Volume VI, R-S:605. [S96] Find a Grave, database and images, 28555387. [S226] . [S41] The Great Migration Study Project, Anderson, Robert Charles, Volume VI, R-S;606.