General Notes

Cause of Death:<CAUS> broken back (while felling homestead trees)
The search for Samuel Sutton's parentage continues.  Hopefully when more
state and local records become available on the Internet and/or to local
historical societies we will be able to discover and document his
ancestry.  According to Dorothy Miesse  (great-grandaughter of Samuel
through his son Samuel's daughter Mary) in a May 1977 letter to Marilyn
Robinson (great-great-grandaughter of Samuel through his son Frank's
daughter Emma), "The Samuel Sutton who came to Illinois was an
illegitimate child.  His mother was engaged to marry this bird and he got
her pregnant and then skipped out to parts unknown.  The only thing I
know is that mama (Mary Sutton Miesse) said her father had told them that
his father was the first generation born in this county = the parents had
come from England, which would be Samuel's grandparents."  Marilyn
Robinson in a letter dated April 9, 1999 noted: "Dorothy Meisse assured
me that Sutton was Samuel's mother's name. Thus it's nearly impossible to
trace without a birth certificate and there is none that I've found. 
Dorotny said that Samuel's mother was engaged to a man who had come to
town. (It could have been anywhere though.) When he found out she was
pregnant, he left town. But she didn't know what else happened.  She was
always sorry her mother hadn't talked to her father about his youth. Me
Too!!!"
From ALLEGANY COUNTY MARRIAGES in Groom Order (1791-1825) File
transcribed and contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Harriet Moore
hmoore@@mindspring.com and the Genealogical Society of Allegany County
(http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/md/allegany/vitals/malema
r1.txt): "1823  12/30  Sutton, Sam'l  Gutton, Margaret"
NOTE: As of 11/01/2001 I can't be positive that Samuel is son of Aaron
and Abigail Chipps Sutton but many factors (names, locations, family in
Old Frederick County, Virginia) point to this strong possibility.  More
research and documentation is needed.  CAUTION: I'm only about 50%
convinced that Samuel is a son of this family although I'm about 80-90%
convinced that he is related closely to the New Jersey Suttons based on
recurring names (William, Samuel, George, Isaac) and religion (generally
Baptists) as well as some ties with common families (Dawson). Parents are
unproven. Aaron and Abigail had a son Samuel born in about 1804 but no
records so far can prove that Samuel Sutton is the same one who married
Margaret Critton. (It's also possible that he was the Samuel Sutton born
"before Dec 1805" to Joseph Sutton of New Jersey, a great-grandson of
William Sutton and Damaris Bishop. In either case he would be a
descendant of William Sutton and Damaris Bishop.) If Samuel was indeed
illegitimate then his parentage could be almost impossible to trace.
His father?: (According to Genealogy.com's library, Egle's Notes and
Queries of Pennsylvania, 1700s-1800s, First and Second Series Volume II,
Notes and Queries-LXX, Page 379)  William Henry Egle's "Notes and
Queries, Historical & Genealogical- Chiefly relating to interior
Pennsylvania" complied in Baltimore 1970 is dedicated "In memory of
Samuel Sutton a native of Hampshire County and State of Virginia, who
departed this lief July 25th, A.D. 1825, aged 47 years."  That would put
this man in the right time period and county to be the father or uncle of
our Samuel Sutton.
Census Notes:  There is a Zachariah Sutton in the 1810 census for
Hampshire County, Virginia page 38 for future research. Could Samuel be
his son or grandson? Samuel Sutton et al and Zachariah Sutton are both
listed as land owners in SIMS INDEX TO LAND GRANTS IN WEST VIRGINIA
HAMPSHIRE CO VA (MINERAL COUNTY WV) 1762-1863: Sutton, Samuel had 562
acres on Big Mountain in the year 1835 (SIMS Book 2 Page 414) while
Zachariah had 80 acres on North River in 1802 (SIMS Book 9 pate 389).
They a