James NEWTE

1613 - 1691  (78 years)

• Name	James NEWTE  [1]
  Birth	1613	Tiverton, Devonshire, England
  Gender	Male
  IMMF	Y
  Immigration	1631	Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire
  NTWY	Original settler of Dover, NH
  Occupation	Carpenter
  _UID	EE0316602CDF48EEA99C62D5AA9F9D121CC6
  Death	1691	Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire
  Cause: Killed by Indians
  Burial	Nute-Dam Cemetery, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire   [2]
  Person ID	I3891	main
  Last Modified	12 Jun 2024

  
  

  Father	NEWTE   d. ?
  Family ID	F5323	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah MNU,   b. Abt 1619, England d. Abt 1658 (Age ~ 39 years)
  Marriage	1642	Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire
  Children	1. Leah NUTE,   b. Abt 1641   d. 1726 (Age ~ 85 years)   2. James NUTE,   b. Abt 1643, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire d. 1691, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire (Age ~ 48 years)   3. Abraham NUTE,   b. Abt 1644   d. Aft 27 Aug 1724 (Age ~ 80 years)   4. Sarah NUTE,   b. 1646, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire d. Aft 14 Oct 1697 (Age > 51 years)   5. Mary NUTE,   b. 1647, England d. 19 Aug 1715, Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire (Age 68 years)   6. Martha NUTE,   b. Abt 1653, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire d. 15 May 1718, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire (Age ~ 65 years)
  Family ID	F1374	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Mar 2025

  
  

• Photos

  James Newte Headstone JAMES (NEWTE) NUTE / BORN 1613 / LANDED IN PORTSMOUTH 1631 / SETTLED IN DOVER 1640 / KILLED BY INDIANS 1691 / ERECTED JULY 1968 / BY E. F. NUTE / 10th GENERATION

  
  

• Notes

  James Nute, came first to Portsmouth then to Dover, resided on Dover Neck. Was granted land in 1656 in the Back River District. A man of character and influence. —— 1640 - signed the Dover Combination. —— Full account in Hist Mem No. 255, Dover Enquirer, by Charles Tuttle of Boston. —— In the "Quaker Families" it is recorded that James Nute and his wife and son were among those fined in 1663 for absenting themselves from official worship in order to be with Quakers. They were absent on 25 Sundays and in addition had committed the offense of entertaining Quakers for four hours in one day. In the "History of Strafford County" it is recorded that it was about 1650 that James Nute bought lots numbers 9 and 10 from the grantees Barthey Smeg and John Ugrove, these lots being south of lot number 11, owned by Deacon John Dam. James is buried in the family plot on the west bank of Back River (Bellamy River Wildlife Management Area) with his daughter, Martha, and her husband, William Dam. James Nute's tombstone was restored in 1968 by E.F. Nute. It reads, James (Newte) Nute; born 1613; landed in Portsmouth 1631; settled in Dover 1640; killed by indians 1691. Other tombstones located there are Paul Nute, Ephraim Nute, Augustus Nute, Greenleaf Nute and his wife Susan, Martha Nute, and Leah Dam, wife of Samuel Hayes. —— Sent by Capt John Mason to Dover, NH [3]

  
  

• Sources

  [S8] Holly Hendricks, Wakefield, MA, Dame_002 gedcom file. [S96] database and images, Find a Grave, 70386285. [S187] Frank R. Holmes, New England Families, Directory of the Ancestral Heads of, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1974), cixxv.