John Dutton--Immigrates

n 1681, John Dutton of Overton, (at 33 years old) was held for being a Quaker when "...the Prosecutor extorted a Demand of 7s by forcibly haling him out of his House, when his Family were in Bed, carrying him to an Alehouse, and threatening instantly to send him to Goal: By which they so affrighted a Kinswomen of his that she paid them" (Joseph Besse, A Collection of the Sufferings of a People Called Quakers..., 2 vols. [London 1753] 1:108). John had become a Quaker prior to the birth of his first son. By 1682, John had decided to immigrate to Pennsylvania and on 22 May 1682, Thomas Rowland of Acton, Cheshire, conveyed 500 acres to John Dutton of Overton, Cheshire and Mary his wife, "for divers good causes" but especially for £10, being part of a tract bought by Rowland from William Penn on 2 or 3 March 1681/2 (Cope:31). On the ship "Welcome," John and Mary Dutton sailed with their four children in the same year to Pennsylvania, where he took up his land located in Aston Twp., Chester Co. (TAG)
The Duttons were the second family to settle on Chester Creek, then called Upland. There was only an Indian path to follow to the site where they built their first home of logs. They traded trinkets to the friendly Indians for corn and game and saved feathers from the wild ducks and skins from animals for bedding. (Watkins) Tradition says that John Dutton settled on this land and built a house in the meadow near the creek, but being disturbed by floods, he removed a few rods further back and erected his dwelling on a large rock near a small rivulet. (Cope) Some time later, John wrote in a letter to his relatives, "For the sake of my religion I have lost much, not only the preferments of family and position, but my inheritance in which much was involved.....but I do not complain." (Watkins)
On 5 June 1693, at 44 years old, John was buried . (Futhey, J. S. and Cope, G., History of Chester County, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1881).

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Hansen, Charles M., in The American Genealogist, "The Correct Ancestry of John Dutton, Immigrant to Pennsylvania." Whole No. 262, Vol.66, No. 2, April, 1991.

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n 1681, John Dutton of Overton, (at 33 years old) was held for being a Quaker when "...the Prosecutor extorted a Demand of 7s by forcibly haling him out of his House, when his Family were in Bed, carrying him to an Alehouse, and threatening instantly to send him to Goal: By which they so affrighted a Kinswomen of his that she paid them" (Joseph Besse, A Collection of the Sufferings of a People Called Quakers..., 2 vols. [London 1753] 1:108). John had become a Quaker prior to the birth of his first son. By 1682, John had decided to immigrate to Pennsylvania and on 22 May 1682, Thomas Rowland of Acton, Cheshire, conveyed 500 acres to John Dutton of Overton, Cheshire and Mary his wife, "for divers good causes" but especially for £10, being part of a tract bought by Rowland from William Penn on 2 or 3 March 1681/2 (Cope:31). On the ship "Welcome," John and Mary Dutton sailed with their four children in the same year to Pennsylvania, where he took up his land located in Aston Twp., Chester Co. (TAG) The Duttons were the second family to settle on Chester Creek, then called Upland. There was only an Indian path to follow to the site where they built their first home of logs. They traded trinkets to the friendly Indians for corn and game and saved feathers from the wild ducks and skins from animals for bedding. (Watkins) Tradition says that John Dutton settled on this land and built a house in the meadow near the creek, but being disturbed by floods, he removed a few rods further back and erected his dwelling on a large rock near a small rivulet. (Cope) Some time later, John wrote in a letter to his relatives, "For the sake of my religion I have lost much, not only the preferments of family and position, but my inheritance in which much was involved.....but I do not complain." (Watkins) On 5 June 1693, at 44 years old, John was buried . (Futhey, J. S. and Cope, G., History of Chester County, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1881).
_______________ Hansen, Charles M., in The American Genealogist, "The Correct Ancestry of John Dutton, Immigrant to Pennsylvania." Whole No. 262, Vol.66, No. 2, April, 1991.
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