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sons, Gideon, Phineas, William, Samuel, Abner and Rufus and one 
daughter. His oldest son Gideon, born in 1766, married in 1801, 
Elizabeth Thomson of Onslow, who died not long afterwards leaving 
one child, who was named John Murray Upham.' This son sub- 
sequently went to the State of Ohio where he became eminent in the 
legal profession and was acknowledged to be one of the ablest men in 
the State. In 1828 he was elected to the House of Representatives 
and afterwards served two terms in the State Senate. He was a gentle- 
man of fine literary taste and a writer of no mean ability in verse as 
well as prose. His death at an early age cut short what would in all 
probability have been a brilliant career. He left an infant son, Joseph 
Gideon McNutt, who followed his father’s profession and also saw 
service as a captain in the Northern Army during the Civil War. He 
married a daughter of Andrew Finley Scott of Rockbridge county in 
Virginia, the ancestral seat of the McNutts in America. 
Of this union was born Francis Augustus McNutt ? at whose instiga- 
tion the preparation of this paper was undertaken. 
It is impossible in the limits at our disposal to trace further the 
descendants of William McNutt in Nova Scotia and the United States. 
That they are many a glance at Mrs. McCormick’s incomplete genea- 
logical tables will easily show. For example, Gideon McNutt, the 
eldest of William McNutt’s six sons, had by his second marriage with 
Jane Lynds of Onslow a family of six sons and six daughters, whose 
descendants are numerous and greatly respected.* 
The names of Alexander and William and the Biblical names of 
Phineas, Samuel and Abner, frequently repeat themselves in the later 
! This name doubtless was given as a token of regard for the family physician 
Dr. John Murray Upham, son of Hon. Joshua Upham, one of the judges of the 
Supreme Court of New Brunswick. Dr. Upham was at this time in medical practice 
at Truro where he married in 1803 Mary, daughter of William Dickson, M. P.P. 
| 2 In her ‘‘Genealogies and Reminiscences’’ Mrs. McCormick thus refers to Mr. 
F. A. McNutt:-— 
“Francis Augustus, second son of Joseph and Laetitia McNutt, studied at 
Philips Academy in Exeter, N. H., and read law at Harvard. His studies were 
contiuued in Germany, Mexico and Spain, and finally at the Accademia Ecclesiastica 
in Rome. In 1889 he returned to America, after some years absence, and was 
appointed by President Harrison, Secretary of Legation to Constantinople, and in 
1892 was transferred in the same capacity to Madrid, where he remained until the 
close of the administration. He also holds the post of Chamberlain at the Vatican.” 
To this paragraph it must suffice to add that Mr. McNutt, in the midst of a busy 
life, has found time to engage in literary work. His “Fernando Cortes and the 
Conquest of Mexico” and other writings are marked by graceful literary style and 
judicious use of the materials at hand. 
8 See Historical and Genealogical Record of the first settlers of Colchester 
County, N.S., by Thomas Miller, pp. 381, 382. 
