Person:John Nutting (1)

John Nutting left no will. At a court held at Cambridge, April 1, 1684, administration was granted to John and James Nutting on the estate of John Nutting, late of Groton, deceased. On December 4, 1716, James Nutting of Groton, yeoman, Ebenezer Nutting of Medford, ?practioner of physic?, Jonathan Nutting of Cambridge, locksmith, John Stone of Groton and Sarah Stone, alias Nutting, his wife, and Jacob Taylor of Concord, husbandman, and Deborah Taylor, alias Nutting his wife, children of John Nutting of Groton aforesaid, deceased and intestate, for £60 paid by our brother, John Nutting, of Groton, husbandman, conveyed to him all their interests in the estate of John Nutting lying in Groton. (Middlesex County Deeds, Volume 18, Page 290.)

In 1674, John Nutting and Samuel Blodgett, who had married Ruth Eggleton, signed an agreement to provide for Jane Cole, widow of Isaac Cole, their mother-in-law. Sarah was thus not the daughter of Elizabeth Bennett Iggleton of Roxbury. (Note, NEHGR 59:417)

1.   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).

   JOHN, Groton, m. at Woburn, 28 Aug. 1650, Sarah Eggleton or Eggleden, or Iggleden, perhaps d. of Stephen, there had a s. b. 1651, who may have been John, and prob. other ch. certain. at Chelmsford, Mary, 16 Jan. 1656; and John, James, and Mary were bapt. 3 Aug. 1656; Sarah, b. 7 Jan. 1660, d. soon; but at G. the rec. gives these names: Sarah, 29 May 1663; Ebenezer, 23 Oct. 1666; and Jonathan, 17 Oct. 1668; was freem. 1660.

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Find A Grave.

   John Rawlings Nutting
   
   He was the son of John Nutting and Elizabeth Rawlings. He married Sarah Eggleston on August 28, 1650 in Woburn MA.
   
   John Rawlings Nutting first married Mary Parker in Woburn in 1645. He held a lot of property and a home large and sedure enough to be a garrison in the defense of Groton during King Philip's War. Under attack March 13, 1676, he apparently opened the door to defend the "garrison" and was immediately killed, his body taken, decapitated and head placed on a pole. Several others were killed that night and it is the date we have for his wife's death as well. However, there is also a story that she instead merely relocated that night to her sister Ruth in Woburn and never returned.

   -- In Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records to the End of the Year 1849, 2:121, there is a marriage for a John Nutting and a Mary Parker married Jan 3, 1706/7. This date is much too late to be this couple and could in turn be the date for a future generation. It is possible this marriage has been confused in the FindAGrave memorial as no other marriage record has currently been found for the John Nutting/Mary Parker couple in 1645 Woburn, Massachusetts.