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subsequent record of the family in Colchester is given by Mr. Thomas 
Miller in his book mentioned above. 
William McNutt of Onslow was directly from Palmer, Massachu- 
setts. He was a grandson of Alexander McNutt or MeNitt, who came 
from County Donegal, Ireland, to Massachusetts in 1720. Alexander 
was born in Ireland in 1656, and died in Palmer February 10, 1746, in 
his 90th year, his wife Sarah dying there also, May 10, 1744, in her 84th 
vear. So far as the historian of Palmer knows (and the Vital Records 
show) the MeNitt family in the second generation in Palmer was 
limited to Barnard MeNitt, son of Alexander, who had a lot surveyed 
to him in 1728. Barnard and his wife Jane MeNitt had at least twelve 
children, of whom William, born July 25, 1733, married May 8, 1755, 
Elizabeth Thomson; and Sarah, born May 29, 1737, was married 
August 27, 1762 to Isaac Farrel or Ferrell, who was without doubt 
Isaac Ferrell the Onslow grantee. The children of William McNutt 
and Elizabeth Thomson born in Palmer were Abner, born August 29, 
1756, also a grantee in Onslow; Sarah, born June 30, 1757; and Eunice, 
born October 21, 1759. 
Lieutenant Joseph Scott was of Ware River, Massachusetts, and 
it seems probable that he served as a non-commissioned officer or 
private at Louisburg in 1745. We know that he served as lieutenant 
in the later French war. It is no doubt he who married in Dudley, 
Massachusetts, December 27, 1738, Mary Edmunds, probably a sister 
of Sarah Edmunds, wife of David Cutting. 
William Tackels with his wife Jean lived in Palmer, Massachusetts 
They had children born there: Mary, May 26, 1741; Elizabeth, March 
21, 1743; Mary Ann, June 4, 1744; Christian, February 28, 1748; 
James, February 14, 1750; Hugh Easter, April 10, 1752; Alexander, 
June 15, 1755. It will be noticed that the sons, James and Hugh 
Easter were named by their father, grantees. 
Another of the chief proprietors, who had been at Louisburg with 
Knowlton and Scott, was Richard Upham, born in Malden, Massachu- 
setts, and baptized there December 9, 1716. Upham married first 
Elizabeth Hovey, who bore him eight children, his second wife, Elizabeth 
(whose third husband he was) bearing him two. This second wife, 
originally Elizabeth Nurse, was married first to Caleb Putnam, secondly 
to Timothy Putnam, thirdly to Richard Upham. The Colchester 
County Putnam family are descended from sons of Elizabeth Upham 
by her former marriages, one of whom, Caleb, baptized in the north 
parish Danvers, June 15, 1750, was a grantee with his stepfather. 
It would be interesting to follow, if we were able, the progress of the 
Onslow settlers from their respective homes in western or eastern 
Massachusetts to the new colony where they were destined to spend 
