1800 Thomas Sutton lived in Bristol Twp, Bucks County, Pennsylvania in a household with males: 2 (Under 10) and 1 (26 thru 44); and females: 1 (16 thru 25). [1]
1800 Thomas Sutton was listed on the septennial census in 1800 in Bristol, Bucks, Pennsylvania, USA. [2] [3]
1802 Rachel Sutton was named as a daughter of Sarah Milnor Rickey in a quit-claim deed. [4]
1806 Rachel Sutton (formerly Rickey) was dis for marriage out of unity (Falls MM). [5] [6]
1814 Mahlon Milnor and wife Phebe sold land to Samuel Sutton (relationship unknown). The deed was witnessed by John Rickey and others. [7]
1820 Thomas L Sutton lived in Falls Twp, Bucks County, Pennsylvania in a household with males: 1 (26 thru 44); and females: 1 (10 thru 15) and 1 (16 thru 25). [8]
1823 William Sutton named son Thomas Sutton as executor for his will. [9]
1833 Thomas Sutton was appointed guardian of the estate of Jesse and Phebe Ann Rickey, children under the age f 14 of John M Rickey [brother of Rachel]. Jesse and Phebe were entitled to estate from their deceased grandfather. Mahlon and Lambert Rickey, children over age 14, also chose Thomas Sutton as guardian for their inheritance. [10]
1850 Thomas L Sutton and wife Rachel M of Falls Twp, Bucks County, Pennsylvania sold land to George Nelson Allen. Thomas Sutton had inherited the land from his father William Sutton. [11]
1850 Thomas Sutton (age 72, born in Pennsylvania) lived in Falls Twp, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in a household with Rachel Sutton (age 62) and Sarahann Sutton (age 40). Thomas Sutton was a farmer. [12]
1852 Rachel M Sutton of the Borough of Bristol, wife of Thomas L Sutton, purchased land in Bensalem Twp. [13]
Research Notes:
Sutton genealogy notes report the following [14], which speculates that Rachel married a Milnor, rather than being a daughter of Sarah Milnor and Keirl Rickey, as we show.
Sutton
Hist. Bucks Co. (Davis) p. 787 -
Thos. Sutton m. 1782 Rachel Johns.
Jesse Shelmire m. Oct. 5, 1803 Elizabeth Sutton
Her brother Thomas L. m. Rachel (Milner?)An old prayer book in the family contains the following inscription -
"William Sutton son of Wm. & Mary Sutton, V. Oct. 14, 1750"
"Thomas L. Sutton lived Morrisville in 1849 & in Bristol in 1852. Rachel M. Sutton, supposed to be wife of Thomas L. died in Burlington N. J. about 1864, 5 or 6, leaving will. Among her heirs were Saml. Rickey (s. of Joseph Kirkbride Rickey) and Lydia, Martha & Melville Hughes children of Lambert Hughes (and ourselves) all presumably relatives"In a later letter Mrs Hill says - Thos. L. Sutton is supposed to have lived at Hulmeville, Bucks Co. early in the 1800's but whose home was in Norrisville in 49 & in Bristol, in 52. He m. Rachel Milner a relative of Samuel Milner (or Milnor) with whom she lived July 1864 at Burlington, N. J. having previously boarded with Mrs Barman 1010 Millon St. Phila
Her lawyer was E. G. Harrison of Hulmeville & among her heirs were Samuel Rickey, S of Joseph Kirkbride Rickey, Mary Rickey, his dau and Lydia Martha & Mellville Hughes, Ch. of Lambert Hughes,
[She here does not say " and ourselves", as in the previous letter]Resurvey granted heirs of Jos. Milner 1701 to Jno. Milner & Mary, Sarah & Rachel Milner
2d. Pa. Arc. 19,. 428 -The witnesses to the will of Rachel M. Sulton, June 30, 1864, were Jens M. Wharton & J. G. Webster of Burlington, N. J ---
Found Will of William Sutton, Falls twp
Mar 15, 1823 - Apr. 8. 1824 - of - not named
exrs. s. Thos. L. Sutton & Benj. Albertson, both of Falls. S. Thos. L. 82 acres in Falls, purchased of John Larrew dau. Elizabeth Shelmire 13. A. 114 per., pur. of Joseph Howell, for life, then to her son Thomas & Bedford Shelmire
Wits. Benj Albertson, David Histon & Thos. L. Sutton,
Copy Bucks Co. Wills at Hist. Soc
Vol. 11. p. 646.
[1] United States Federal Census, 1800, [AncestryRecord].
[2] Pennsylvania, Septennial Census, 1779-1863, [AncestryRecord].
[3] Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Tax Records, 1782-1860, [AncestryRecord].
[4] Bucks County (Pennsylvania). Recorder of Deeds, Bucks. Deeds 1811–1812, DGS 8067834, image 208, [FamilySearchImage].
[5] William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. 2 [NJ and Pennsylvania] (1938), 1015, [HathiTrust].
[6] William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. 2 [NJ and Pennsylvania] (1938), 1023, [HathiTrust].
[7] Bucks County (Pennsylvania). Recorder of Deeds, Bucks. Deeds 1814–1816, DGS 8067837, image 39, deed starts on bottom right of page, [FamilySearchImage].
[8] United States Federal Census, 1820, [AncestryRecord].
[9] Bucks. Wills 1821–1831, image 155, [FamilySearchImage].
[10] Bucks. Court Records 1827–1836, image 485, [FamilySearchImage].
[11] Bucks. Deeds 1851–1852, image 205, [FamilySearchImage].
[12] United States Federal Census, 1850, [AncestryRecord].
[13] Bucks. Deeds 1852–1853, image 341, [FamilySearchImage].
[14] Pennsylvania. Genealogies 1967, page 78, image 258, [FamilySearchImage].