Person:James Chute (3)

"39. James³ Chute was the only son of James² of Ipswich, who was son of Lionel¹ Chute who died in Ipswich, 1645, leaving a will, dated 4 : 7 mo. 1644, proved 7 : 9 mo. 1645, wherein is mentioned a wife, Rose, and son, James (Essex Deeds, 1 Ips.: 15).

He was born in Ipswich, about 1648; married in Ipswich, 10 Nov., 1673 (Connecticut. R.), Mary, oldest child of Thomas Wood of Rowley. …

He was administrator of his father's estate, 3 : 9 mo. 1691 (Essex Probate, 304:297). In a deed to John Wainwright, dated 20 Dec., 1692, he mentions his 'late father James Chute deceased, y^t he is the only son, heir & administrator unto' and conveys his homestead in Ipswich to Wainwright (Essex Deeds, 5 Ips.:551).

By deed, dated 18 Jan., 1692-3, his brother, Joseph Jewett of Rowley, conveys to James Chewte of Ipswich, husbandman, 128 acres in Rowley, bounded on one side by the Newbury line, on the other side 'by y^e plane called Ry plane' (Essex Deeds, 30:176). He soon moved to Rowley making this land his homestead. By deed, dated 17 Jan., 1708-9, James Chute of Rowley conveys to son Lionel Chute, as his share or 'portion of my estate or my fathers by any entail or alienation whatsoever,' about 30 acres of the farm "I bought of Capt. Joseph Jewett' (Essex Deeds, 28:34).

By deed, dated 14 Feb., 1715-16, he conveys his homestead of 90 acres, bought of Joseph Jewett as above, to his son, James Chute, to enjoy one-half at once and the other half not "untill my death and the death of his mother" (Essex Deeds, 30:168). In this deed he mentions 'land which I sold to my son Andrew Stickney and … land I gave my son Lionell Chewte.'

By deed, dated 12 June, 1729, James Chute, sr., of Rowley, conveys to his daughter, Elizabeth, wife of Henry Lunt, land in Rowley to hold for her life, then to her children which she had by 'her late husband Andrew Stickne late of Rowley, deceased.' … Also mentions 'my grandson Amos Stickney' (Essex Deeds, 43:125).

No record of the death of James Chute nor of the death of his wife, Mary, is found."^[1]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} 39. James³ Chute, in Jewett, Amos Everett, [Editor], and George Brainard [Compiler] Blodgette. Early Settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts: A Genealogical Record of the Families who Settled in Rowley before 1700 with Several Generations of their Descendants. (Rowley, Mass.: Amos Everett Jewett (Newcomb & Gauss Co., Printers, Salem, Mass.), 1933)
   72-74.
2. ↑ James Chute, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
   1:387-388.

   James (Chute), Rowley, s. of the preced. m. 10 Nov. 1673, Mary Wood, possib. d. of Isaiah, had Eliz. b. 22 June 1676; Ann, 19 Oct. 1679; Lionel, bapt. 3 Apr. 1681; James, 13 June 1686; Thomas, 31 Jan. 1692; Mary, 12 Sept. 1697; beside Martha; Ruth; and Hannah; but the three last are less certain.