SUTTON, David	1766-1835  Atkinson

David Sutton, Sr., was a Revolutionary soldier in North Carolina and was 
born about 1745.  He lived in Pitt County but moved to Georgia in the 
1790s, granted land in 1799, and lived in Wayne County and died there about 
1810-1815.  He had four sons, David, Amos, John and Shadrack.  These four 
sons made deed to their father's lands to Allen B. Powell in 1816 (see 
Wayne County Deed Book "B", pp. 33-34); the deed was executed in Tattnall 
County.  These four sons became the ancestors of many of the name (and 
descendants of other names) in Wiregrass Georgia.
David Sutton, the subject, was born in North Carolina about 1766.  This 
date is arrived at by the 1830 Census and by the fact that he drew land as 
a Revolutionary soldier in Georgia land lottery in 1827.  He grew up in 
North Carolina but moved to Georgia before he married, and after his 
father's death moved to Tattnall County as already indicated.  He lived in 
Telfair County a few years, serving on the jury there in 1812.  He moved 
thence to the new County of Irwin and was on the first petit jury there in 
1820; thence moved to Ware County, about 1825, settling in the portion now 
in Atkinson County, where he died about 1835.
Mr. Sutton married Mary Brown, born 1785 in North Carolina, daughter of 
Phillip Brown and granddaughter of Frederick Brown, R.S.  Her parents moved 
From Telfair to Irwin County, now Wilcox County.  After her husband's 
death, she remained a widow until her death in Coffee (now Atkinson) County 
about 1865-1870.  David and Mary Sutton had the following known children:

1. John	b. 1815, m. (1) _____ Nixon (2) Elizabeth Pierce.
2. Nancy	b. 1814, m. Martin Nixon.
3. Susan	b. 1823, never married.
4. Mary	b. 1825, never married.
5. David	b. 1826, m. Mrs. Jane Arnold Sears.
6. Harriet	b. 1834, m. Needham Arnold.

Census References: 1820, Irwin; 1830, Ware; 1840, 1850,. Ware (widow only); 
1860, Coffee (widow only).


SUTTON, JOHN.	1795-1831 	BERRIEN

John Sutton, generally known as "Jack" Sutton, was born in Montgomery 
County in 1795. His mother, a Miss Sutton, a few years after his birth, 
married James Nash. John grew up in Montgomery County and married there in 
1816 to Blansett Davis, born 1800 in that county, daughter of Abner Davis; 
she was a niece of Stafford Davis (Vol. II). Born to Jack and Blansett 
Sutton were four children, viz:

1. John Abner	b. 1818, m. Hester Ann Harper, dau. of Leonard.
2 Mary (Polly)	b. 1823, m. Josiah Parrish.
3: Elizabeth C.	b. 1825, m. James Rountree.
4. Rachel	b. 1828, m. Beni. F. Lindsey.

Mr. Sutton moved with his wife and two children about 1825 to Lowndes 
County and settled in the portion now Berrien County, settling near the 
present town of Nashville. He died there in 1831. His widow married 
Roderick Morrison two years later; he also emigrated here from Montgomery 
County.
William Smith, who was clerk of court of Lowndes County, was the 
administrator of the Sutton estate. Record is found in Lowndes Court of 
Ordinary in the only book saved when the Ordinary's records were burned, of 
the division of the John Sutton estate, one division made Aug. 15, 1831 and 
another July 10, 1832. Later, Roderick Morrison on behalf of his wife and 
as Guardian for the Sutton children, gave the administrator a receipt Aug. 
24, 1833, for 324 head of cattle belonging to them as a part of the 
inheritance, and on Jan.15, 1835, he gave another receipt for $1534.25 in 
full for balance due.
Jack Sutton was said to have lived on a lot of land adjoining the lot 
whereon Nashville was located; and was buried in an abandoned cemetery in 
the northern part of the town.

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