James Chute

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JAMES CHUTE (bp. 1614), son of Lionel Chute and Thomasin Barker

ELIZABETH EPES (b.c. 1622), daughter of Daniel Epps and Martha Reade

James, the son of Lionel Chute, was baptized on 2 February 1613/4 in Dedham, co. Essex. [1] He married Elizabeth Epps, the daughter of Daniel and Martha (Reade) Epps. [2]

Elizabeth Epps was born about 1622.

James came to New England with is father and they settled in Ipswich. [3]

On 10 July 1635 Elizabeth Epps, age 13, was enrolled at London for passage to New England on the Abigail. She was traveling with her Aunt Elizabeth (Reade) Winthrop, who had married John Winthrop, Jr. four days before. [2][4]

Elizabeth Chute witnessed the will of her stepbrother Samuel Symonds on 22 November 1652. [2]

James was on the trial jury at the September 1665 and March 1667 quarterly courts at Ipswich. [5, 2: 370; 3: 387]

Samuel Symonds left 20 shillings to "my son Chewte" in his will of 16 February 1673. [2]

Children of James Chute and Elizabeth Epps:

i. James Chute was born about 1648. He married Mary Wood.

James was their only known surviving son. [2]

Endnotes:

1. William Wyman Fiske, "The Two Wives of Lionel Chute, Schoolmaster of Ipswich, Massachusetts," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 163 (2009): 137–8.

2. "Great Migration 1634–1635, C–F," digitized book, AmericanAncestors.org, originally published as: Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634–1635, Volume II, C–F (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001), 458–9.

3. D. Dudley, "Pedigree of Chute or Chewte," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 13 (1859): 123.

4. John Camden Hotten, The Original Lists of Persons of Quality ... who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600–1700, reprinted (New York: Empire State Book Co., n.d.), 100. The image is from here.

5. George Francis Dow, ed., and Harriet S. Tapley, trans., Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, 9 vols., digitized books, Salem Witch Trials: Documentary Archive and Transcription Project (http://salem.lib.virginia.edu).

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