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over 1,100 of the expatriated Acadians were sent to Virginia in 1755. 
McNutt is said to have served on Braddock’s staff in the disastrous 
expedition against Fort Duquesne. He was living in Staunton, 
Virginia, in 1756, but a little later we find him domiciled among his 
kith and kin of the North of Ireland who had settled in Londonderry, 
New Hampshire. That he was a “free-holder and inhabitant” of that 
place in 1758, is shown by the fact that his name and that of his brother- 
in-law, Lieut. John Wier, appear in a list of seventy-one signers of a 
memorial submitted to Governor Wentworth and the General Court of 
New Hampshire. The document conveys sincere and hearty thanks 
to Wentworth and the General Court for the enactment of a law 
providing that Londonderry should have “no more than three taverns 
and two retailers” and the signers say, ‘‘ We had rather the number was 
diminished than increased.” 
While temporarily a resident, Colonel McNutt seems to have been | 
quite too romantic a character to settle down contentedly among the 
farmers and weavers of Londonderry. Members of the McNutt family 
were at this time scattered about in the old colonies, some in Virginia, 
some in Pennsylvania, some in New England. A little later several of 
the name came to Nova Scotia from various quarters. They were all 
of Scotch-Irish ancestry. A few may have come from the North of 
Ireland, others from the colonies to the south. 
According to Dr. Eaton, George and James McNutt came from 
Ireland direct and settled at Londonderry, N.S. Benjamin, Joseph, 
John and Patrick McNutt received a grant of 4,000 acres at Cobequid 
and Noel in 1765. The land in that vicinity had been improved by the 
French prior to the Acadian expulsion. We find another group of 
McNutts in the south-western part of Nova Scotia at Port Roseway. 
Alexander McNutt, while he was endeavouring to establish his town of 
New Jerusalem at thatplace, built himself a house in which he and one 
of his brothers, probably Joseph, lived. Here they were robbed and 
maltreated by Yankee privateersmen during the Revolutionary war, 
as related in the former paper. Benjamin, Arthur and Angus McNutt 
had grants at Port Roseway of somewhat later date. Joseph, John and 
Francis McNutt were grantees in the town of Shelburne in 1784 and 
Martin MeNutt (probably a son of Joseph) was a grantee there in 1785. 
Whether all these McNutts came from Pennsylvania or Virginia, or 
whether some of them came to Nova Scotia from Ireland is uncertain. 
There is no evidence that any of them ever lived in New England. 
The statement made by the writer, in the last volume of the Trans- 
actions of the Royal Society, that William McNutt came from Virginia 
and was a brother of Colonel Alexander McNutt is believed by Dr. 
Eaton to be a mistake. Dr. Eaton bases his opinion upon evidence 
