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Subject: [NUTTER-L] Re: Nutter Tract
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 06:44:26 EDT

In a message dated 98-07-12 22:05:21 EDT, you write:

<< [It's indexed by Ruth Dryden under
"Elias Nutter" in "1738".] >>

Dear John & Jeff:

John, thanks for the message. Now, that little mention of "Elias Nutter"
happens to be most interesting. "Ellis", an anglicanization of the name of
the minor Old Testament prophet Elias, is the classic, endlessly-repeated
Nutter family given name from Pendle Hill/Blackburn in Lancashire. An Ellis
Nutter was the Deputy Steward of the Honor of Clitheroe in 1618 and is
mentioned in Nicholas Assheton's Journal. We know that the "John Nutter,
Merchant" who died in Oxford on Maryland's Eastern Shore in 1725, was the
descendant of that Ellis Nutter of Lancashire. We also have a persistent
unproved rumor that there was an Ellis Nutter present in Lancaster County,
Virginia in the 17th century.

Thanks, John.

Dave Nutter

<<Gentlemen:

Offhand, I think the following is the last patent or certificate under the
Nutter name I haven't sent you. [It's indexed by Ruth Dryden under
"Elias Nutter" in "1738".] It would be virtually certain that the James
Givans tract mentioned is COMMONS, meaning that TIMBER
TRACT's southern bound was along the northern lines of DELIGHT
and GETHSEMANE. [GIVANS SECURITY, also on Farrington
Neck, is a little out of place to be right.]

If there are any other properties on the Neck you need some input
on, let me know.

- John>>

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