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Damaris (Bishop) Sutton (abt. 1646 - 1683)

Damaris Sutton formerly Bishop
Born about in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusettsmap
Sister of [half] and [half]
Wife of — married 11 Jul 1666 in Eastham, MAmap
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 37 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jerseymap
Profile last modified | Created 13 Sep 2010
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Biography

Damaris Bishop was born about 1646 in Eastham, Massachusetts, daughter of Richard and Alice (Martin) (Clark) Bishop. Damaris' mother was hanged for the murder of her own child in 1648 when Damaris was just 2 years of age.

Damaris married William Sutton 11 Jul 1666 in Eastham.[1][2][3][4]

Children born in Eastham, Massachusetts:[1]

Alice, b. 13 May 1668[4]
Thomas, b. 11 Nov 1669[4]
Marah or Mary, b. 4 Oct 1671[4]

children born in Piscataway, New Jersey:[5]

John, b. 20 Apr 1674
Judah , b. 24 Jan 1674/5
Richard, b. 18 Jul 1676
Joseph, b. 27 Jun 1678 (died 19 Dec 1682 at age four [6]
Benjamin, b. 24 Feb 1679-80
Daniel b. 25 Feb 1681-2
Joseph, b. 11 Sep 1693.

William and Damaris clearly removed from Eastham to Piscataway sometime between 1671 and 1674.

Damaris's death is listed in a transcribed record as "Feb. 6, 1682 (?3).in Piscataway, New Jersey.[6] [7]

Research Notes

The copy of Sutton's Genealogical Notes of the Sutton Family on Archive.org [5] has typewritten additions and corrections by the author (p 48+). Among other things, these notes make the case that Damaris' husband William was son of George Sutton of Scituate, Massachusetts, who later removed to North Carolina at least in part because Quakers were persecuted in Massachusetts (less so in North Carolina), while William and Damaris similarly removed from Eastham to Piscataway, New Jersey, for similar reasons. That he was the son of George ha been disputed. In fact, DNA evidence collected by the Family Tree DNA Sutton Family DNA Project has proven that William was not the son of George as George's and William's descendants belong to different Y haplogroups.George Sutton is Haplogroup I and William Sutton is R1b. The paternal Y-DNA public results chart is available at: Sutton Family DNA Project Y-DNA chart

Damaris's death date is transcribed as Feb 6, 1682 (?3). Damaris's husband, William married his second wife, Jane Barnes, on 3 Jan 1683 or 1684 (the record is also unlcear on that.) [8] The only thing that is clear here is it is extremely unlikely that Damaris died in Feb 1683 AND William married Jane in Jan 1683. While either could be true, both are very unlikely.

Child Joseph, born 11 Sep 1693 is listed as being the son of Damaris and WIlliam, but this apepars unlikely as it is 11-12 years after the previous child was born, and at least eight months after Damaris's death.

Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 Hamblen, David. "First Settlers of Eastham, Mass." New England Historic Genealogical Register (NEHGR) v 7 p 280 (July 1853). HathiTrust.org link
  2. Whitcomb, William A. "Sutton Family." NEHGR v 91 p 67 (Jan 1937). AmericanAncestors.org link (subscription)
  3. Torrey, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS), 2011. v 2 p 1474. AmericanAncestors.org link (subscription)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Births, marriages, deaths, 1649-ca.1840; intentions of marriage, 1700-ca.1905, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-9979-9XF5  : 2 October 2022), FHL microfilm 007009735, image 141, Eastham, Massachusetts, Volume 2, Births, & Deaths, 1654-1797, Page 76.
  5. 5.0 5.1 Sutton, Edward F. H. Genealogical Notes of the Sutton Family of New Jersey. New York: T.A. Wright (private publication), 1900. p 10. Archive.org link
  6. 6.0 6.1 Piscataway NJ, Marriage and Death Records. Piscataway, NJ, Marriage and Death Records; Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society (1919). v 4 p 43. Archive.org link
  7. Folsom, Joseph F “Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society” : Edison, New Jersey 1919 Vol 50 p 43 https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofnew04newj_0/page/43/mode/1up
  8. New Jersey Historical Society (1919) Piscataway, New Jersey, Marriage and Death Records. Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, Vol. IV. Nos 1-4 Press Print, Paterson, , N.J. Page 33 and 40

See also

Elements of the original profile of Bishop-187, some of it unsourced, some references improperly formatted, and some from a gedcom upload, is preserved on this WikiTree page.





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All this DNA talk of William not being the son of George is flawed. To 100 percent know William was not the son of George Sutton, you'd have to exume William and George's bodies. Impossible. All it takes is one affair of one woman married into the male Sutton line to throw the entire male haplogroup off. William could be the son of George but if one of HIS male descendants wives got pregnant by another man, the haplogroup gets skewed, the chain broken. Or, William may not have been the son of George. Unfortunately, there is no way to know with 100% certainty.
posted by Sheree Rymenams
You make a good point. However, consider that multiple descendants of William through multiple children have been tested and do not match multiple descendants through multiple children of George. Members of each group match within the group .

There would have had to be multiple NPEs among multiple children with men of the same haplogroup for the explanation to be as you suggest.

If there was any evidence at all that they were actually father and son, the DNA evidence would have to be weighed against that with all that in mind. But no one has ever been able to uncover any evidence at all that they are father and son, which increases the relative weight of evidence to the contrary.

It's one thing to be less than 100% certain that people are not related. It's an entirely different matter to claim a relationship in the we absence of any evidence at all.

posted by Kathryn McCollough
The bio above includes Joseph as a son of William and Damaris, born 11 Sep 1693. I believe this is an error in the records or re3cord transcription. That is the information that appears in the transcription of the Piscataway Register of births published here: New Jersey Historical Society (1902) Piscataway Register of Births. Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, Vol. III. No. 1, Press Print, Paterson, , N.J. Page 16, this date is over a decade after Wm and Damaris's previous child was born and Damaris's death. She is listed in the Piscataway NJ marriage and Death records transcription as dying 6 Feb 1682 or 1683.

I'd like to suggest moving the information on Joseph's birth to a research note with the above information provided for others who come across that source. Also, the source can be listed for the births of children in Piscataway.

posted by Kathryn McCollough
edited by Kathryn McCollough
I concur with the problems noted; when I last attended to Damaris' profile I decided not to add a profile for Joseph because his evidence was so scrambled. You have found sources closer to original records, unfortunately no more accurate than later sources derived from them. It would be helpful to the next person thinking about adding a profile for Joseph to know that this purported parentage is so troubled (perhaps they will find other records that support more credible parentage). Please do what you suggest and add this information to the Research Notes. Thank you!
posted by Raymond Watts PhD
The Sutton Family website http://suttonfamilyhome.com/williamsutton.html referenced above either no longer exists or has changed its URL.
posted by Marie Friederichs
Thanks Beryl and Marie. I did a lot of cleanup today on Bishop-187. Some work remains, but generally the profile now contains authoritative or near-original records. Ray
posted by Raymond Watts PhD
Website sourced is not active now http://www.orgsites.com/va/sutton-geneology/
posted by Beryl Meehan
Bishop-16548 and Bishop-187 appear to represent the same person because: Clear duplicate
posted by Raymond Watts PhD
This is obviously the same person as Bishop-187. In question is her relationship to Thomas Sutton, b. 1669 in Eastham MA. One Thomas Sutton lived in Rye or adjacent Harrison, NY, in the early 1700's. One Elizabeth Sutton (Sutton-8576) married a prominent citizen there, Robert Bloomer (Bloomer-343), and they had son Robert Bloomer Jr (Bloomer-547), b. around 1700. There being no earlier Suttons in Westchester County, it is exceedingly likely that Elizabeth and Thomas were siblings who removed together to Westchester County. This part of Westchester County was known in the 1700's for its population of Quakers, which makes connections of these Suttons to Suttons of Scituate, Barnstable, or Eastham MA likely. In Elizabeth's profile (Sutton-8576) there is extensive analysis of chronology, which fits well with Elizabeth being a younger, unrecorded sister of Thomas b. 1669 in Eastham, whose mother was Damaris (Bishop) Sutton (Bishop-187), father William Sutton. Indeed, Elizabeth may have been born after Marah (Eastham 1671) and before John (NJ 1674), a longer gap in child bearing than was typical of the family; this coincided with the family's removal from Eastham to NJ (John being the first of the family's births recorded there), and the chaos of the family move may have contributed to Elizabeth's birth not being recorded. THE DILEMMA: the profile of Damaris (Bishop-187) claims a son Thomas Bishop Sutton of the same date and place of birth, who removed to Piscataway, NJ, and died there. Thus, there seem to be two competing versions of Damaris' son Thomas Sutton. I will continue my search for definitive records of Thomas and Elizabeth. Meanwhile, this Damaris Bishop profile serves as a placeholder for their mother.
posted on Bishop-16548 (merged) by Raymond Watts PhD
edited by Raymond Watts PhD
Bishop-1120 and Bishop-187 appear to represent the same person because: The marriage VR supports spelling of Bishop-1120, same spouse, parents and birthplace , dates too close to be different people. , Bishop-1120 provides only broken links to sources; Only the marriage VR, appears on AmericanAncestors and Ancestry search. Findagrave is quoted without ID. 2428530 appears to match, but is unsourced, unknown burial.
posted by Tim Prince
Bishop-12086 and Bishop-187 appear to represent the same person because: Duplicate
posted by Susan (Knight) Gore
Bishop-7540 and Bishop-187 appear to represent the same person because: same person
posted by [Living Schmeeckle]
Bishop-7539 and Bishop-7540 are not ready to be merged because: Both should merge into Bishop-187
posted by [Living Schmeeckle]
Bishop-7539 and Bishop-187 appear to represent the same person because: Clear duplicate.
posted by Carolyn Adams
Bishop-7540 and Bishop-7539 appear to represent the same person because: clear duplicate. Please look to see if these names exist in the database before creating.
posted by Carolyn Adams
I'm concerned about the death date you have given Damaris. You might find this of interest:

Rowland, Olive Barrick,. An ancestral chart and handbook : genealogical notes of the Sutton and Rittenhouse families of Hunterdon County, New Jersey : with Mattison, Bonham, Fuller, and Fox connections, and some record of the Barrick and Shepherd families. Richmond: Garrett & Massie, 1935. Page 4 says the following: Damaris Sutton died February 6, 1682-3. This date is to be found in the Piscataway Records, Volume IV of the 'Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society.'

posted by Darlene (Scott) Kerr

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