An American Family History

Reverend David Sutton, Senior, born in Piscataway, Middlesex County, New Jersey on July 31, 1703 and died in Somerset County, New Jersey in December 19, 1775. His wife was Elizabeth Cox (1705-1746).

Their children were Elizabeth Sutton (1724), Mary Sutton (1726), Isaac Sutton (1729), David Sutton (1732), John Sutton (1732), and Abraham Sutton (1738). All five sons became ministers.

The Reverend David Sutton, Jr. was born about 1732 in New Jersey. He was the fifth pastor of the North Ten Mile Baptist Church and served for 33 years

He married Phoebe Anne Winters. Anne was born in Middletown, New Jersey and buried in Washington County, Pennsylvania about 1783. Their children (all born in Kingwood) were David Sutton (1767), Sarah Sutton (1767), Andrew Sutton (1772), Anna Sutton Parkhurst (1774), and Catherine Sutton Frazee (1779).

Anna Sutton married Samuel Parkhurst, had six children: 1. Reuben, 2. Catherine, 3. Ruth, 4. David, 5. Rhoda, 6. William.

Catherine Sutton married [Colonel] David Frazee, had three children:
1. David Frazee,
2. Sarah (Sallie) Frazee Miller,
3. Andrew Sutton Frazee. Andrew married Leah Moninger; Sarah married Peter Miller; and David L. married Amy Cooper.

David Sutton (Abraham, David) was born on March 15, 1766 in Fort Cumberland, Maryland. He was the son of Reverend Abraham Sutton and Mary Chenowith. He married Anchor Fox.

Anchor and David's children were Mary Sutton Petro (1790), Iva Sutton Petro (1792), Absalom Sutton (1794), Rebecca Sutton Dawson (1796), Gabriel F. Sutton (1799), David Sutton (1802), Jonathan Sutton (1804), Nancy Ann Sutton (1806), Abraham B. Sutton (1809), Eliza Sutton (1811), and William J. Sutton (1814).

from History of the First Baptist Church of Piscataway
Stelton, New Jersey, 1889, by Oliver B. Leonard, Esq.

The Suttons also, came from Long Island, descending from an honorable ancestry in the county of Nottingham, Eng., where the progenitor of Fitz Randolphs lived before emigrating to this country. This family furnished to New Jersey many excellent Baptist preachers during the Colonial and Revolutionary times, one family had four distinguished sons in the ministry. Some of them were among the first to push into the interior to develop the Passaitc valley and the hill country beyond, and at a later date moved to the western part of Pennsylvania.

September 6, 1775 "Mary, wife of Abraham Sutton, upon oath chargeth him [James Sutton] with indecent behaviour toward her."

On October 13, 1775 "Consulted upon the scandalous report brought against Brother James Sutton, a member of this church and a minister by letter of dismission from the Church of Christ at Scotch Plains, New Jersey and found no cause of accusation."

February 16, 1776 we find that Abram Sutton was the moderator of that meeting. Also we read there that some money was collected for Brothers James Sutton towards paying for his place. In the spring of 1776 James Sutton Junior, son of our first pastor, was the first person baptized in the North Ten Mile Baptist Church. Later in other minutes we find that James Junior was suspended and had to come before the church to confess his error and be reinstated.

On June 14, 1777 we find Isaac Sutton, a minister - perhaps for that time or two or three. He was chosen moderator of this meeting also.

In the September 4, 1779 minutes we find James Sutton, John Buckingham (who is buried in Franklin Cemetery), and Samuel Parkhurst were messengers (delegates) to the Redstone Association of Baptist Churches.

On May 1, 1783 our minutes state that Reverend David Sutton made a visit from the Jerseys and the church gave him an invitation to come and settle among them which he accepted and came the next fall. In the December 1783 minutes we read that "by subscription they (church) tried to make up something for the support of Reverend David Sutton and his family.