Notes


Note for:   Sibbie McNUTT,   1785 - 12 SEP 1840         Index
Burial:   
     Date:   1840
     Place:   Clark' Cemetery, Blount County, Tennessee



Notes


Note for:   George Anderson McNUTT,   10 APR 1817 - 10 NOV 1872         Index
Burial:   
     Date:   1872
     Place:   Mound Cemetery, Charleston County, Illinois



Notes


Note for:   Alexander [Col.] McNUTT,   10 DEC 1754 - 29 MAR 1812         Index
Burial:   
     Date:   1812
     Place:   Falling Spring Churchyard, Hickory Hill, Rockbridge County, Virginia

Note:   Alexander McNutt arrived with a group of Loyalists at Port Roseway, Nova
Scotia (now Shelburne) in the spring of 1783, following the end of the
Revolutionary War. His name is found on the founder's list for Port
Roseway, along with others of the surname McNutt. The family settled an
island which became known as McNutt's Island. He later returned to
Virginia, as Port Roseway, rocky, isolated, and barren, unsuited for
permanent settlement, gradually shrunk to a small fishing village.
McNutt's Island could support only a small number of settlers. Other
Loyalists moved on to other grants in Nova Scotia, or returned to their
homes in America, disillusioned with the provision made for them by the
English.

A pioneer McNutt was Robert, who died on a voyage to Ireland, and his
wife, whose maiden name was Rosanna Dunn, married Patrick McFarland.
Still another was George, who came here with his brother William as
advance agents for some kinspeople. Tradition has it that both brothers
were in the battle of King's Mountain. William went to the Northwest,
and George, who was three times married and had a numerous family,
settled near Knoxville, Tennessee.

Source: A History of Rockbridge County, Virginia by Oren F. Morton,
published in 1920.
Transcribed and submitted by: "Marilyn B. Headley" , 1997
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Washington County, VA Survey records abstracts

Page 220 - Alexander McNutt...850 ac...Preemption Warrant...on the south
east side of the south fork of
Holston River joining his settlement...Beginning under a spur of the Iron
Mountain...on the northeast side of
Moses Creek...on Wallins Path...May 7, 1782

Page 263 - Alexander McNutt...450 ac...Treasury Warrant...on the south
side of the south fork of Holstein River...Beginning under a high spur of
the Iron Mountain and on the north side of the spur...on Wallins
path...May 7, 1782

Page 264 - Alexander McNutt...400 ac...Commissioners
Certificate...Beginning under a spur of the Iron Mountain...May 7, 1782 -
Alexander
McNutt, assignee of Arthur Campbell, assignee of William Fletcher...400
ac...on the south fork of Holstein, includes improvements, actual
settlement made in 1771...August 25, 1781

Page 278 - Alexander McNutt...421 ac...Treasury Warrant...on the
southeast side of the fork of Holstein River...Beginning under a spur of
the Iron Mountain...on the northeast of Moses Creek...on Wallins path
then crossing the creek...May 7, 1782.

Page 278 - Alexander McNutt...400 ac...Commissioners Certificate...on the
southeast of the south fork of Holstein River and adjoining his
settlement...May 7, 1782 - Alexander McNutt, assignee of Arthur Campbell,
assignee of Wiliam Fletcher...400 ac...on the south fork of
Holstein...includes improvements...actual settlement made in
1771...August 25, 1781.

Page 297 - Alexander McNutt - 300 ac - Commissioners Certificate - on
both sides of the south fork of Holstein River - beginning adjoining to
Moses Buchanan's land - in John McCutcheons line - on the south side of
the river - by a roaring spring - May 26, 1782...Alexander McNutt,
assignee of Archibald Blackburn, assignee of Thomas Ray - 300 ac - on
both sides of south fork of Holstein, includes improvements, actual
settlement made in 1771 - August 25, 1781Alexander, born Dec. 10, 1754.
He was a Revolutionary War soldier, having served at Cowpens. He was a
planter, slaveholder, and Presbyterian. He owned extensive property on
North River, seven miles east of Lexington and which he and his family
lived and where his widow resided after his death. His farm was on North
River, 7 miles east of Lexington. A portion of it had been granted by the
Commonwealth to his father in 1798 (about a mile west from Buena Vista).
He died of pneumonia on March 29, 1812 and is buried at the Failing
Springs Presbyterian Church graveyard. (I saw his grave in September
[1998], and it is marked with a Revolutionary Soldier marker). Richard P.
Elliott

Lucy Paxton Aldredge, NSDAR 102410, Alexander served in BGen. Daniel
Morgan's rifle regiment at Cowpens, where his brother, Robert McNutt, was
mortally wounded. He was born and died in Rockbridge, VA. Also Rowena
Osborne, NSDAR 91816, Sallie Crawford Griggs, NSDAR 72798, Virginia
Osborne Ross NSDAR 61837, Roberta McChesney Crawford, NSDAR 60138, and
Grace Lee Osborne Mortimer NSDAR 12267. SAR, Leander Hamilton McCormick
had that Alexander was a private in the 4th NC regiment of riflemen and
was at Cowpens.