Beth,
I have Clarks and Nutters in my line, but not any of the names you're
looking for. However, maybe the following will help you in your research.
The Nutter family originated in the United States in 1662, when Christopher
Nutter arrived from Lancashire, England and settled in Northampton County,
Virginia, where he remained about four years before moving on a farm near
Princess Anne in Somerset County, Maryland in 1665.
Somerset County, on the Eastern Shore, the area around Clarksburg, West
Virginia and Richardson County, Nebraska became the homes of his descendants
for the next three centuries with all of these areas still the home of many
of his descendants, Christopher Nutter was born in 1636 or 1640 in
Lancashire, the home of members of the Nutter family for several hundred
years, and still is with about fifty Nutters in the Preston telephone book
in Lancashire. There also are thirty-five or forty Nutter families in the
Clarksburg, West Virginia telephone book today, many living at Nutter's
Fort, which is now a Clarksburg suburb. The fort was built about 1778 for
protection against the Indians.
The grandson of Christopher, who was named William and who remained in
Maryland and who died there in 1783, left 22 slaves in his will to his widow
and children. They had names like Cinta, Dido, Flora, Dinah, Hannah,
Goliath and Lizey and the will passed them along together, "with their
increase thereof forever". William Nutter's will was probated Nov. 17, 1783
in Somerset County.
Many records still are available in the well-organized and well-indexed
courthouse in Princess Anne, Maryland, a town of about 1500 persons in the
middle of the eastern shore of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia.
Much vital information on the Nutter family was collected by Clayton
Torrence about 1935 and included in his book "Old Somerset on The Eastern
Shore of Maryland", which was originally published in Richmond, VA, in 1935,
reprinted by the Regional Publishing Co. of Baltimore in 1966 and reprinted
a second time by a company of Baltimore in 1973. The Library of Congress
Catalogue card is 66-30004. Governor J. Millard Tawes (Maryland) wrote a
brief introduction for the second reprinting.
Another valuable reference is the book "Fooks Family, published by Herbert
C. Fooks in 1953 and printed by the J. W. Stowell Printing Company in
Federalsburg, Maryland. Fooks included in his book many records of the
Nutter family which he
found at Princess Anne and elsewhere in surrounding counties. His family
was related to the descendants of the Nutter family.
Hope this helps,
DelC
-----Original Message-----
From: Beth [mailto:mendavis57@juno.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 10:57 PM
To: INBLACKF-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [INBLACKF] Fw: Sills, Williams, Hite, Nutter
Joseph J. Sills married Acentha Wiley and had a daughter, Martha Ellen Sills
(March 1 1866 - Dec 211910) who married Joseph C. Williams (July 16 1859 -
Jan 1 1945). Their daughter Delsia Ann Williams (Mar 6 1895 - Feb 24 1966)
married Jesse Thurman Nutter (Oct 10 1891 - Nov 7 1974).
Delsia Ann Williams and Jesse Thurman Nutter are my grandparents.
Jesse Thurman Nutter's parents were Peter "Strait" Nutter and Mary
Elizabeth
Hite Nixon Nutter (Oct 29 1857 - Dec 27 1929). She married Benjamin Clark
in 1920.
My BLOCK is Peter "Strait" Nutter. I need to know his parents, his siblings,
his dates and burial place.
All help will be very much appreciated!
Beth Nutter Davis