Person:Thomas Nutter (4)

Thomas Nutter was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia

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Will Abstract

The book said the last will of Thomas Nutter lists his survivors as his wife, Sarah; a son, Christopher (married to Rebecca Moorehead), and two daughters (presumably), Rachel (Mrs. Isaac Richards) and Mary (Mrs. Richard Hall). Other sons were Thomas (married to Mary Moorehead), James (married to Ann Davisson, who was the sister of Daniel Davisson, "founder of Clarksburg") and one son named Charles. http://www.connect-clarksburg.com/

Notes

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Thomas Nutter, in Haymond, Henry. History of Harrison County, West Virginia: from earliest days of northwestern Virginia to the present. (Morgantown, West Virginia: Acme Publishing, 1910)
   372.

   Thomas Nutter.
   Thomas Nutter entered his homestead of 400 acres about two miles from Clarksburg on the West Side of Elk Creek and on the road to Buckhannon in 1775 and preempted one thousand acres adjoining.
   On this tract was built the famous Nutter's Fort, which was a harbor of refuge for the neighborhood during the Indian wars.
   The census of 1782 shows that he had a family of eight in that year.
   The date of his birth and death are not known.
   Some of his original settlement right is still owned by his descendants.

2. ↑ http://genforum.genealogy.com/morehead/messages/393.html.

   Thomas NUTTER, a son of John Huett NUTTER and Ann (Nutter) Nutter, was born in Sussex County Delaware about 1739 and died in Harrison County VA (WV) in July 1807. He married Sarah GOODWIN about1759. In 1760, the Nutter family moved to Rockingham County VA andthen to Augusta County. About 1769, the family Moved to Fayette County PA, where they lived until about 1772, when they moved tothe area of present day Clarksburg WV. Thomas built Nutter's Fort in present day Harrison County WV.
   :Children of Thomas and Sarah (GOODWIN) Nutter.
   :(1). Christopher NUTTER b.Jan 21 1760 d.Feb 21 1845 m. Rebecca MOREHEAD Jun 28 1785.
   :(2). Rachel NUTTER b.c. 1763 m. Isaac RICHARDS May 4 1785.
   :(3). John NUTTER b.c. 1765 d.Jan 1808 m. Elizabeth COTTRELL Oct 2 1786.
   :(4). Charles NUTTER b.c. 1767.
   :(5). Mary NUTTER b.c. 1769 m. Richard Hall Aug 31 1790 m.Gains DICKERSON Dec 4 1804.
   :(6). Thomas NUTTER Jr. b.c.1771 m. Mary MOREHEAD.
   :(7). James NUTTER b.c. 1772 d.Jul 1833 m. Julia Ann DAVISSON Jan 25 1797.
   :(8). Margaret

3.   Find A Grave.

   Capt Thomas Nutter
   BIRTH 1735
   Sussex County, Delaware, USA
   DEATH 6 Aug 1807 (aged 71–72)
   Nutter Fort, Harrison County, West Virginia, USA
   BURIAL: Nutter Fort
   Nutter Fort, Harrison County, West Virginia, USA
   
   Arriving in the early 1770s, the families of brothers Thomas, Matthew, and Christopher Nutter were early European settlers to western Virginia. Thomas Nutter had received a land grant for 1,400 acres (5.7 km²) of land along Elk Creek in what was then Monongalia County. Together with the settlers Obadiah and Daniel Davisson, the Nutters constructed a fort in 1772, later known as Nutter's Fort, said to have been one of the strongest forts south of Fort Pitt. Located on the eastern side of Elk Creek, the fort was used by the Virginia state militia from 1776-1780 in conflicts with Native Americans. Thomas Nutter served as a Captain in the Revolutionary Army and died in early August 1808. When the community was incorporated in 1923, it took its name to honor both Nutter and the original settlement. A marker at the Nutter Fort campus of West Virginia Business College (formerly the location of Roosevelt-Wilson High School) indicates where the fort was located.
   
   https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/86387547