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The Virgfinia and Nova Scotia Families of MacNutt or McNutt traced t
he ir ancestry to a Scotch family in Galloway, MacNaught, of Kilquhaniti
e, wh ich estate had been their possesion form 1480 until 1667, which t
he la st of the owners, John left Scotland for Ireland, accompained by h
is fo ur sons, The family of MacNaught of Kilquhanitie thus became extin
ct in Ga lloway. The first of the name of MacNutt who emigrated from the n
orth of I reland to America was Alexander. Br. 1656 arriving in Ameri
ca Ca 1720.