The Sutton Family seem to settle first in New Jersey and Mass., later moving into Perquimans, Bertie, and Chowan counties of N.C. Still later they moved on into the eastern counties of N.C., such as Lenoir, Greene, Wayne and Duplin as well as others. Here in these counties, we see their descendents living in 1974.
George Sutton, of Tenterdon, Kent, England, left Sanwich in the ship Hercules and landed in Boston, Mass. in the year 1634. He first settled at Scituate, Mass. He had a brother Simon Sutton. Nothing seems to be known of what became of him. (Marjorie Elizabeth Sutton Oliver – see source “The Suttons of England and North Carolina.
Lists eight children: Nathaniel, Joseph, William, Daniel, Lydia, Sarah, Sarah, Elizabeth