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The Virginia and Nova Scotia families of MacNutt or McNutt traced their
ancestry to a Scotch family in Galloway, MacNaught, of Kilquhanitie,which
estate had been in their possession from 1480 until ca. 1667, when the
last of the owners, John, left Scotland for Ireland, accompanied by his
four sons. The family of MacNaught of Kilquhanitie thus became extinct in
Galloway. The first of the name of MacNutt who emigrated from the north
of Ireland to America was Alexander, b. 1656, arriving ca. 1720.(Source:
Colonial Families in the U.S., Vol 5, p 379) |
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There are two different birthplaces given for Alexander, one being
Kirkcudbright, SCT, the other Laggon, Donegal, Ireland. In both reports
his birthdate remained the same.
In 1718, he and his wife Sarah departed from Donegal, Ireland and arrived
in Boston, MA. They, and the families that came at the same time were
known as the Scotch-Irish party. They first settled with the Ulster Scots
in Worcester, MA, later moving to Palmer, MA.
"In 1720 a brigantine entered the port of Boston with a party of settlers
from Ulster that included Alexander McNitt, his wife Sarah, and his son
Barnard. The small ships then plying from Londonderry and Belfast to New
England usually were brigantines: two-masted, square-rigged vessels
without cocktail lounges and orchestras. The price of an ocean ticket for
one of these no-luxury liners was generally ¹9.
"It would be helpful to this history to identify the father of this
Alexander and fix his home locality, but doubt must restrain us. ..."
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The Virginia and Nova Scotia families McNutt probably derive from
MacNaughton of Dunderave, Scotland, which had been the home of their
chiefs from the 14th century. MacNaughts were in Dumfriesshire from 1296
and was common too in Ayrshire, Kirkcudbrightshire and Galloway. Black
John MacNaghten was brought in to Antrim, Ireland, with others of the
family by the Earl of Antrim in the early 17th century. It is speculated
that he was the origin of the McNutt line in Donegal. This differs from
the
following as quoted from the Colonial Families of America, Vol. 5, p.
379.
The Virginia and Nova Scotia families of MACNUTT or MCNUTT, as the name
is also commonly spelled, traced their ancestry to a Scotch family in
Galloway, MACNAUGHT, of Kilqubanitie. The estate of Kilquhanitie had been
in their possession from 1480 until about 1667, when the last of its
owners, John, left Scotland for Ireland, accompanied by his four sons.
The family of MACNAUGHT, of Kilquhanitie thus became extinct in Galloway.
The first of the name of MACNUTT, who emigrated from the north of Ireland
to America was ALEXANDER, who was b. in 1656. He came over early in the
eighteenth century, circa 1720, and was later followed by several of his
sons, some of whom settled in Virginia. Alexander died in Palmer,
Massachusetts, in 1746 at the age of ninety years, his wife Sarah, having
died there in 1744, aged eighty-four. The second ALEXANDER MACNUTT, b. in
Ireland, first settled near Hagerstown, Maryland, shortly afterward
removing to Augusta County, Virginia, where he lived on land known as the
MACNUTT grants, near Lexington. He d. there about 1751, leaving several
sons, Alexander, John, William, Robert, James and another, said to have
been killed when a lad in an Indian skirmish. There was also a daughter
named Jane, who later m. ---- WEIR, of Nova Scotia. The most notable
member of the family in the eighteenth century was COL. ALEXANDER
MACNUTT, who was b. in Ireland about 1725 and came with his father,
Alexander, to Augusta County, Virginia. He accompanied Maj. Andrew LEWIS
as a volunteer in the Sandy Creek Expedition against the Shawnee Indians
in 1756 and later served on General BRADDOCK'S staff in the expedition
against Fort Duquesne. In one of his memorials to the Lords of Trade, he
mentions having served in upwards of twenty engagements on land and sea,
always as a volunteer and without pay. In the spring of 1760, he was in
New England and assisted in raising three hundred men for his Majesty's
service at Louisbourg. At this time Colonel MACNUTT embarked upon vast
and ambitious schemes for the re-colonization of Nova Scotia, depopulated
by the expulsion of the French Acadians. The archives of Canada contain
voluminous records of his transactions with the British and Colonial
authorities, many of which have been published. He visited England
several times in the interests of these undertakings, and on his first
visit bore letters from Governor DINWIDDIE, which procured him an
audience of the King. His Majesty conferred upon him the honorary title
of Colonel and presented him with a sword, in recognition of his
services. The sword despoiled during the Civil War of its silver
mountings, is now (1915) in possession of his gd. niece, Mrs. Alexander
GLASGOW, of Rockbridge County, Virginia. He sided with the patriots
during the American Revolution and through failure to fulfill his
contracts, lost the tracts of land amounting to several hundred thousand
acres granted him in Nova Scotia. He died unmarried, at Lexington,
Virginia, in 1811.
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