1Ezra S. Stearns, William Frederick Whitcher, Edward Everett Parker, Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the . . ., Vol. 1, pp. 139-140 (1908).
"(1) Thomas Dutton, probably a native of England, was among the early residents of Reading, Massachusetts, and was a short time in Woburn. He is supposed to have been a son of John Dutton, and to have been born after 1620. He was accepted as an inhabitant of Billerica, November 22, 1669, and lived on the south side of Fox brook by an old road long since abandoned, leading to the "great plain." His first wife, Susannah, died August 27, 1684, and he married (second), November 10, 1684, Ruth Hooper, asaid by one authority to have been a daughter of William Hooper, of Reading, and by another to have been his widow. Hooper died about 1678, and left both widow and daughter by that name. All of Mr. Dutton's children were born before his arrival in Billerica, the last five in Woburn. They were: Thomas, born September 14, 1648; Mary, Susannah, John, Elizabeth, 1658-59; Joseph, Sarah, James, and Benjamin, 1667.".