THE SUTTON FAMILY OF NEW JERSEY

• JOHN 2 (William 1)
• JUDAH 2 (William 1)
• RICHARD 2 (William 1)
• DANIEL 2 (William 1)
• JOSEPH 3 (Thomas 2, William 1)

JOHN 2 (William 1)

Married about 1695, Elizabeth_____ Removing from Piscataway, he settled at Passaic Valley, in Morris County, N. J., four to five miles from Basking Ridge in Somerset County. He bought land at Harrison's Neck, N. J., Nov. 11, 1741, and sold Piscataway lands, Dec. 31, 1741. His will (dated December 17, 1746) was probated December 20, 1750; so he must have died that year aged seventy-six. The will mentions all his children excepting Sarah. His wife Elizabeth died (according to her gravestone in the Baptist Churchyard at Stelton, Piscataway), May 10, 1731, aged fifty-two years.

Children:

1. Moses 3, b. Feb. 2, 1696-7
2. Aaron 3, b. July 2, 1699; married, and died before 1746.
3. John 3, b. Sept. 19, 1701.
4. David 3, b. July 31, 1703.
5. Sarah 3, b. July 21, 1706.
6. James 3, b. May 9, 1709.
7. Jesse 3, b. July 6, 1711.
8. Mary 3, b. Aug. 15, 1717.
9. Ephraim 3

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JUDAH 2 (William 1)

b. Dec. 7, 1719. Lived at Piscataway. Married May 6, 1698, Emma Canter. (This name may be Carter or Cauter.)

Children of Judah:

1. Emma 3, b. March 9, 1698-1700; m. Hugh Dunn, Jr., June 19, 1720.
2. Damaris 3, b. Dec. 18, 1700.
3. Patience 3, b. Jan. 27, 1702-3.
4. William 3, b. Jan. 4, 1706-7.
5. Mary 3, b. July 3, 1709.
6. Sarah 3, b. Feb. 28, 1711.
7. Elizabeth 3, b. Oct. 3, 1713.
8. Anne 3, b. June 25, 1714.
9. Joseph 3, b. Dec. 6, 1716.
10. Rachel 3, b. May 30, 1719.
11. Benjamin 3, b. April 13, 1722.

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RICHARD 2 (William 1)

Lived in Piscataway. Married Sarah, daughter of Vincent Rognon (the Huguenot founder of the Runyon family), and Anne Boutcher, an English woman, his wife, January 25, 1702. Richard died in 1732, and his widow in 1736 md. James Campbell.

Children:

1. Sarah 3, b. Dec. 31, 1703; m. Joseph Manning.
2. Anna 3, b. May 20, 1706; m. Hendrick Sleight.
3. Nathan 3, b. Aug. 16, 1708; d. 1733, unmarried.
4. Richard 3, b. Feb. 14, 1711-2.
5. Peter 3, b. May 2, 1713. (Probably the man dying in 1740 at Piscataway. Wife Sarah administratrix.)
6. Catherine 3, b. Jan 24, 1715-6.
7. Joshua 3, b. Nov. 18, 1718.
8. Jonas 3, b. April 18, 1721.
9. Amos 3, b. July 16, 1723.
10. Joseph 3, b. Aug. 15, 1726

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DANIEL 2 (William 1)

Married, 1., October 31, 1704, Patience, daughter of John 2, and Dorothy Martin, of Piscataway. (John 1, Martin* was one of the four Piscaataway grantees. He came from Dover, in the valley of the Piscataqua, in what is now New Hampshire. He was a landholder there in 1648, served on the grand jury in 1654, and was freeman in 1666. His wife's name was Esther Roberts. Married, II., August 25, 1724, Lydia Collier, of Woodbridge.

* John Martin, Charles Gilman, Hugh Dunn, and Hopewell Hull applied for and received, December 18, 1666, the Piscataway land grant.

The following is in handwriting put in 1936: (John Martin, Jr. born 1650 at Dover, New Hampshire, married June 26, 1677, Dorothy Smith, daughter of Richard Smith of Woodbridge, New Jersey, and Newton Long Island. Esther Roberts wife of John 1, Martin, was dau. of Thomas Roberts, pioneer of

Dover, New Hampshire, and Styled "New Hampshire's first Colonial Governor" elected 1640. In 1641 all this region "of the Piscatagua" was annexed to Massachusetts, and was not erected into the Province of New Hampshire until two generations later.

Lydia 4 Collier (Thomas 3, Moses 2, Thomas 1) second wife of Daniel 2 Sutton. Her first anccestor was of Hingham, Mass., 1635. She was aunt of Rachel 5, Collier (Colyeror, Collyer) who md. Jonathan 4, Sutton. End of handwriting and back to book.

In 1719 he was member of the board of the freeholders. As late as 1729 he is noted as living at Piscataway; but in 1736, when he serves as an executor of his brother Richard's estate, he is said to be a resident of Somerset County. He is probably the man who was dismissed from the Piscataway Baptist Church, where his death is recorded in 1761. His age was seventy-nine years. When we consider the place of residence of his sons, and the fact that he attended church in Morristown, it deems beyond doubt that his Somerset County property was located in Bernard Township near Basking Ridge, Where, as we learn from the Elizabethtown Bill in Chancery, some one of the Suttons had located prior to Feb. 1729-30. As late as 1736 this part of the county was almost unbroken wilderness.

Children:

1. Anne 3, b. Sept. 16, 1705.
2. Zebulon 3, b. Sept. 1, 1707.
3. Zacharias 3, b. Oct. 5, 1709.
4. John 3, b. Aug. 10, 1713.
5. Dorothy 3, b. May 1, 1717.
6. Patience 3, b. May 23, 1719; m., about 1752, Johnathan 4 Doty, Son of Jonathan 3 Doty.
7. Esther 3, b. Aug2, 1721.
8. Daniel 3, b. May 8, 1725. (By second wife Lydia Collier).

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JOSEPH 3 (Thomas 2, William 1)

Of Piscataway. Married, December 25, 1718, Priscilla Laangstaff. One tablet stamds to the memory of both in St. James' Churchyard, Piscataway, stating that he died March 17, 1762, age sixty-nine, and she died the same year, age sixty-three.

Children:

1. Martha 4, b. Sept. 3, 1719.

2. Sarah 4, b. Dec, 1, 1721; d. in infancy.
3. Sarah 4, b. Feb. 9, 1723.
4. Henry 4, b. April 6, 1724; d. Oct. 8, 1806, age eighty-two. (A soldier if the Revollution.)
5. Joseph 4, n. Feb. 15, 1728.
6. Jacob 4, b. July 3, 1730.
7. Priscilla 4, b. April 14, 1735.

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