182Roderick Johnson Sutton
Key Facts
Parents:unknown
Born:unknown
Died:probably between circa 1844 and 1849
location unknown
Buried:unknown

The earliest record I've found of 182Roderick Johnson Sutton is his marriage record, which shows that he married 183Mary "Polly" Chambers in Wilkinson County, Georgia on 4 April 1824.1


1824: Rodie Johnson-Sutton's and Polly Chambers' marriage record. Full page.1

In 1830 182Roderick received land that he'd won from Georgia's 1827 land lottery, i.e. Lee County's section 1, district 7, lot 233.2 This lot lies in what is now Clay County not far from the Alabama-Georgia state line; I've marked it on the master map. I haven't made a serious effort to research what 182Roderick did with the land. The grant record describes him as "J.P. of Currey's district Wilkinson County," but I've been unable to find further information about this role. Currey's district is militia district 332 (map).


1830: An excerpt from 182Rodie's grant for land from Georgia's 1827 land lottery. Full page.2

Unfortunately, after 1830 182Roderick is somewhat of an enigma: Even though the land grant shows that 182Roderick resided in Wilkinson County in 1830,2 I've been unable to find him in the 1830 census, nor in the other records listed below. (I checked some Warren County records since 182Rodie's wife 183Mary later lived there.)

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Georgia Pioneers, Century of Warren County, Georgia, Wills, 1790-1890 (Albany, Georgia, no publication date stated). Family History Library call number 975.8625 S2c. I checked under the surnames Johnson and Sutton.
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Warren County, Georgia. Inventory appraisements & sales book F (1837-1842), index. On page 284 is a March 1839 sale record from the estate of Robert Johnson, but I see no Sutton purchasers, and this is probably a different person altogether.
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Warren County, Georgia. Inventory appraisements & sales book G (1842-1848), index.
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Warren County, Georgia. Inventory appraisements & sales book for the years 1850-1857, index.
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Warren County, Georgia. Index to deeds & mortgages for the years 1796-1885. I started on page 392 and checked for "Sutton" entries in the reverse index columns up through the year 1859.
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Joseph T. Maddox, Wilkinson County, Georgia, Wills 1817-1920: With Genealogical Information (Irwinton, Georgia, 1971).
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Wilkinson County, Georgia. Probate records book 2 (1820-1853), index.
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Wilkinson County, Georgia. Probate records book 3 (1853-1860), index.

182Roderick probably died between circa 1844 (when his apparent son Henry was born3) and 1849 (when 183Polly is listed as the head of household, implying that she was a widow by that time4).

Sources Cited:

1: Wilkinson County, Georgia. Marriage records book #9 (1823-1828), page 14, the marriage of Rodie Johnson Sutton and Polly Chambers. FamilySearch, <https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C919-PQWB-1?cc=1927197&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AQ21Z-VTCR>, accessed 13 April 2023.

2: Georgia Surveyor-General's Office. Land lottery grants, 1827, Lee County, book for districts 7 and 8, page 61. FamilySearch (microfilm 519041, image 654 of 1100), <https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C34P-NW93-F?i=653&cat=73628>. FamilySearch restricts access to this image, so see a copy here. See also: Martha Lou Houston, compiler, Reprint of Official Register of Land Lottery of Georgia 1827, page 154, section for Wilkinson County, entry for Roderick Sutton.

3: 1850 U.S. Federal Census (Population Schedule). Warren County, Georgia. Page 13 or 204, dwelling 98, family 98, Mary Sutton household. NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 86. FamilySearch, <https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-XCMK-F2>.

4: Warren County, Georgia. Tax digest for 1849, section for Kent's district 151, page 14, entry for Mary Sutton. Ancestry.com ("Georgia, U.S., Property Tax Digests, 1793-1892" / Warren / 1849 / images 29 and 30 of 122), accessed 21 July 2023.