In brief

Baptized February 11, 1598/1599, in Attleborough, Norfolk, England. 1638: Travelled from England to Massachusetts aboard the ship Diligent with her husband and children. She married October 22, 1620, in Eaton St. Andrew, Norwich, Norfolk, England. She died about June 1678 near Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony (Massachusetts).

Family

Children

  • John Sutton
    b. Abt. October 1621 near Great Snoring, Norfolk, England
    m. Elizabeth House, January 1, 1661[1662], in Scituatue, Massachusetts
    d. Abt. 1691 in Scituate, Massachusetts
  • Elizabeth Sutton
    b. Abt. May 1623 near Great Saxham, Suffolk, England
  • Mary Sutton
    b. Abt. August 1625 near Great Saxham, Suffolk, England
    m. John Fitch around 1645 in Massachusetts
    d. November 4, 1703, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts
  • Anne Sutton
    b. Abt. 1627/Abt. 1631
    m. John Doggett/Daggett in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, November 23, 1651
  • Judith Sutton
    b. Abt. November 1629 near Attleborough, Norfolk, England
    d. Abt. July 1631 near Great Snoring, Norfolk, England
  • Esther Sutton
    b. Abt. April 1632 near Great Snoring, Norfolk, England
    m. Richard Bowen, March 4, 1656, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts
    d. Abt. November 1688 near Rehoboth, Massachusetts
  • Margaret Sutton · in this line
    b. Baptized: November 30, 1637, in Attleborough, Norfolk, England
    m. Joseph Carpenter, November 25, 1655, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts
    d. 1676 near Swansea, Plymouth Colony (Massachusetts, USA)
  • Hannah Sutton
    b. Abt. 1640
    d. October 1642 in Hingham, Massachusetts

Siblings

  • Neele Adcocke
    b. c. February 1602
    m. Stephen Paine/Payne
    d. 1660 in Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony

Life story

Crossing on the Diligent

Judith “Julian” Adcocke was baptized February 11, 1599, in Attleborough, Norfolk, England, and married in October 1620 at Eaton St. Andrew, Norwich. In 1638 she emigrated to Massachusetts aboard the ship Diligent with her husband and children, arriving in Boston that August, and later settled in Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony, where she was buried in June 1678.

Sources (2)
  1. Eugene Cole Zubinsky, “Julian Adcocke, Wife of John Sutton of Hingham and Rehoboth, Massachusetts, and Their Family,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register 167 (January 2013): 7-14; image copy, American Ancestors, (https://www.americanancestors.org/DB202/i/14128/7/36729272 : accessed 8 August 2026).
  2. Eugene Cole Zubinsky, “The English Origins of John Sutton of Hingham and Rehoboth, Massachusetts,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register 172 (Winter 2018): 30-32; image copy, American Ancestors, (https://www.americanancestors.org/DB202/i/55221/30/1425118653 : accessed 8 August 2026).