NICHOLAS MATTSON UTTER

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• Death Notes
  • Nicholas UTTER was born about 1637. He died before 1723.************UTTER, Nicholas-[6058] 1 2
    Born: Abt 1642, , , England
    Married (1): Abt 1683, of Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA
    Married (2): Abt 1665, Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA
    Died: 1722, Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA **Alt Birth, Abt 1642, Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA.
    
    Nicholas married Mrs. Nicholas UTTER-[5961] [MRIN:2382] about 1683 of Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA.
    Nicholas also married Nicholas Mrs. TEFFT-[6880] [MRIN:2470] about 1665 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA. (Nicholas Mrs. TEFFT-[6880] was born about 1650 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA.)
    
    

• General Notes
  •     Nicholas' Utter, the immigrant, was born about 1637. From 1630 to 1640 there was a large influx of people from England to New England, landing at Lynn, Salem, and Newbury, Mass. Doubtless the parents of Nicholas Utter were among these immigrants. Nicholas Utter was born about 1637. The precise time and place is not of record. There are traditions that the native country of the Utter family was Sweden; one, that they came from Holland; another claims the name should be Von Utter. But what is correct is not yet ascertained. It is found that he lived in Westerly, RI, and Stonington, Conn.
    THE BROWN GENEALOGY, Vol. II, 1915, by Cyrus Henry Brown, page 353.
    Nicholas was made a Freeman June 13, 1698.
    Nicholas Utter: Born 1630 in Sweden, Died August 17, 1722 in Stonington, Connecticut.
    " 'A Daughty Scandanavian Soldier - Sailor that of all North-men he dwelt farthest North who so interesed the King of Sweden that he had him to court and had a scribe take down his storey." His inher itance from his Viking ancestors was his love of freedom and independence, an affection for home and family and a great desire to travel. His ...
    ***************Westerly records, He received 100 acres of land from the town of Westerly and bought two parcels from the 'Shannook Purchase' (the Shannook Purchase was a tract of land mostly in the present town of R ichmond, sold by the colony agents to encourage the settlement of vacant lands.) Nicholas was employed in making a list of the town estates and was a grand juryman for a setting of the General Court a t New Port. He engaged in many land transactions. He lived at 'Shannook Falls', near the present town of Shannook.
    
    On January 8, 1714, he bought land in Stonington, Connecticut. 'land bounded south by the Asnawage River, near Glead Brook.' Here he lived until he died. In his will - probated August 17, 1722 - h e leaves 'amounts and property to his widow and children and also 20 pounds to his Brothern of the first lay Baptist Church at Groton. My son Thomas to have a double shere of dividable estate for tak ing care of me in my old age.'
    
    As per his last will and testiment, dated 5 May 1722, before his death, Nicholas acknowledged Eleanor (supposed daughter of his wife, Elizabeth, whom was widowed when he married her in 1659) as his da ughter-in-law rather than as a step-daughter who later married Matthew Randall)
    The Shannock Purchase
    
    The Shannock Purchase was the second largest land grant to the citizens of the Rhode Island colony during the division of the "vacant" Indian lands in 1709. The Narragansett and Niantic Indian Nations agreed to sell the "vacant lands" in exchange for permanent possession of land located in the present town of Charlestown. The Shannock Purchase encompassed a large part of the present town of Richmond.
    
    
    Three of the 26 individuals to receive land in the Shannock Purchase were members of the Tefft family; including Joshua Tefft's brother Samuel and Samuel's eldest son, John - as well as Joshua's orphan son, Peter.
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    "Know all men by these presents that we Weston Clark Randall Holden Richard Greene Philip Tillinghast being a committee appointed and fully empowered by the Government & Company of the Colony of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations to dispose & make sale of the vacant lands in ye Narragansett County for & in consideration of the sum of 486 pound 2 shillings currant money of New England well & truely paid unto us who receive ye same in behalf & for the use of ye Governor & Company afore sd of & at the hand of William Gibson, Nicholas Utter, Samuell Tift, fransis Colgrene, George Babcock, George Foster, William Knowles, Samuell Clark, John Eanos, William Clark, Thomas Parker, James Deny, Daniel Wilcocks, Daniel Tenant, Samuell Lewis, William Utter, John Witter, Peter Tift, Jeremiah Crandall, Eber Crandall, Samuell Perry, Joseph Brown, Weston Clark, John Tift and Nicholas Utter, Junior, all inhabitants of Westerly Kingstown and Newport.
    Westerly Land Evidence 2:48
    *****ID: I23914
    Name: Nicholas Mattson UTTER
    Sex: M
    Birth: BET 1630 AND 1637 in Westmanland Lan, Sweden
    Death: 1722 in Stonington, Connecticut
    Emigration: ABT 1654
    Note:
    Nicholas Mattson Utter arrived in America in 1654 to fight the war between the Dutch and the Swedish in what was then, Delaware/New Jersey at Fort Christina, but when the Dutch won, he left the Swedish Colony and sailed to other places until 1678 where he settled in Westerly, R.I. and supposedly sired 9 children.
    
    above from ... Joni Utter Anderson
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    MARRIAGE: m(1) ?; m(2) widow Elizabeth who had dau Eleanor.
    
    WILL: Dated May 5, 1722; pvd Aug. 17, 1722. Names wife Elizabeth; sons: Jabez, Thomas, Nicholas Jr and William; daus: Millicent Yeomans and Sarah Forman decd.; friend John Richmond; 1st Baptist Church at Groton. Exors: Peter Crandall, John Maxson and John Richmond.
    
    LAND: Jan. 8, 1713/4 purchased land in Stonington which was sold by heirs to Matthew Randall.
    
    MISC: Oct. 4, 1714 Information being made to council by John Hull...child of NICHOLAS UTTER is likely to put ____ betaken the sd NICHOLAS UTTER having left town. [Westerly, RI TCP 1:78R]
    
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    Warwick General Records No.1. 1681. A1:27-28.
    
    The Shannock Purchase
    
    The Shannock Purchase was the second largest land grant to the citizens of the Rhode Island colony during the division of the "vacant" Indian lands in 1709. The Narragansett and Niantic Indian Nations agreed to sell the "vacant lands" in exchange for permanent possession of land located in the present town of Charlestown. The Shannock Purchase encompassed a large part of the present town of Richmond.
    
    Three of the 26 individuals to receive land in the Shannock Purchase were members of the Tefft family including Joshua Tefft's brother, Samuel, and Samuel's eldest son, John; as well as Joshua's orphan son, Peter.
    
    "Know all men by these presents that we Weston Clark Randall Holden Richard Greene Philip Tillinghast being a committee appointed and fully empowered by the Government & Company of the Colony of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations to dispose & make sale of the vacant lands in ye Narragansett County for & in consideration of the sum of 486 pound 2 shillings currant money of New England well & truely paid unto us who receive ye same in behalf & for the use of ye Governor & Company afore sd of & at the hand of William Gibson, Nicholas Utter, Samuell Tift, fransis Colgrene, George Babcock, George Foster, William Knowles, Samuell Clark, John Eanos, William Clark, Thomas Parker, James Deny, Daniel Wilcocks, Daniel Tenant, Samuell Lewis, William Utter, John Witter, Peter Tift, Jeremiah Crandall, Eber Crandall, Samuell Perry, Joseph Brown, Weston Clark, John Tift and Nicholas Utter, Junior, all inhabitants of Westerly, Kingstown and Newport."
    
    Westerly Land Evidence 2:48
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    Research by Gary Utter
    Descendants of Nicholas Mattson Utter
    
    
    Generation No. 1
    
    1. NICHOLAS MATTSON1 UTTER was born Abt. 1636 in Westmanland Lan, Sweden, and died Bef. August 07, 1722 in Stonington, New London, Co., Connecticut. He married (1) KERSTIN HANSDOTTER 1653 in Stockholm, Sweden. She was born Abt. 1638 in Sweden, and died Aft. 1682 in Sweden. He married (2) DEBORAH Aft. 1655 in Westerly, Rhode Island1,2. She was born Abt. 1639 in New Amsterdam or Long Island, and died Aft. 1682 in Rhode Island. He married (3) ELIZABETH BROOKS Abt. 1685 in Rhode Island. She was born Abt. 1640 in Rhode Island, and died Aft. 1722 in Stonington, Connecticut.
    
    Notes for NICHOLAS MATTSON UTTER:
    Nils Matson Utter soldier and member of the tenth expedition to Delaware.
    Found on Parkhouse records from May and June 1655.
    
    from my research in Sweden: Nils (Niels) Mattson Utter, Vestmanlands Regt.
    Roterings-och utskerivning Langder 1653- 1655, No# 1099-wa716
    Vasteras Stadsbiblioteket Parrish Saby - Personaliebok.
    Mantalslangder Vestmanlands No# 958CD863 (1651 - 1659)
    
    This information was collected by me during my four trips to Sweden between 1981 - 1985. It shows that Nils was a member of the Vestmanlands Regiment from 1653 - 1655, serving as a light Auxiliary troop that would have such functions as Pioneer, Flanker, Forager, Skirmisher, Baggage Or Prisoner guard. Lt Skute hired troops in Vasteras in 1653 then sent them on to Stockholm to wait shipment on the Orn.
    
    
    More About NICHOLAS MATTSON UTTER:
    Adoption: Eleanor Brooks, Dau of Elizabeth Brooks
    Burial: Stonington, Connecticut
    Military service: Bet. 1675 - 1678, King Philip War, Rhode Island
    Military service1: May 1655, Fort Trinity, New Sweden
    Will: August 17, 1722, Stonington, Connecticut
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    Descendants of Nicholas Mattson Utter
    
    
    
    
    Generation No. 1
    
    
           1. Nicholas Mattson1 Utter1,2 was born 1630 in Sweden, and died 1722 in Stonington, Connecticut. He married Elizabeth Unknown in Westerley, Rhode Island.
    
    
    Notes for Nicholas Mattson Utter:
    Nicholas Utter: Born 1630 in Sweden, Died August 17, 1722 in Stonington, CT:
    His way of life was a separate class - the Military of Sweden. New Sweden was a colony founded in 1638 on the banks of the Delaware River. Nicholas was hired in Stockholm in 1653 to come to the Colonies to fight the Dutch. They fought for two more years and in 1655 the Dutch captured the strongest fort, Fort Christina. Even though the victorious Stuyvesant arranged with the New Sweden Governor Rising, for the return of all soldiers to Sweden on October 23, 1655, many of them stayed in the New World. Nicholas Utter, soldier, stayed. He was listed as a married man on the lists from Sweden. Whether he left a wife and family in Sweden or was widowed is not known, but in 1659 ? he married Deborah? and then Elizabeth (now known to be Tefft or Tifft)?, a widow with one daughter, Eleanor. He lived most of his life at Westerly, Rhode Island. He recorded land at New Port, R.I. in May 1678. He paid land taxes in Rochester, R.I. in September 1687 and also at Kingstown, R.I. In 1701 he bought more land in Westerly, and in 1699 he went before the Westerly town court on a boundery dispute. He was supported in his lawsuit by the town council. Until 1714, his name appeared thirteen times on the Westerly records. He received 100 acres of land from the town of Westerly and bought two parcels from the 'Shannock Purchase' (the Shannock Purchase was a tract of land mostly in the present town of Richmond, sold by the colony agents to encourage the settlement of vacant lands.) Nicholas was employed in making a list of the town estates and was a grand juryman for a setting of the General Court at New Port. He engaged in many land transactions. He lived at 'Shannock Falls', near the present town of Shannock.
    
    On January 8, 1714, he bought land in Stonington, CT. 'land bounded south by the Asnawage River, near Glead Brook.' Here he lived until he died. In his will-probated August 17, 1722 - he leaves 'amounts and property to his widow and children and also 20 pounds to his Brothern of the First Day Baptist Church at Groton. My son Thomas to have a double share of dividable estate for taking care of me in my old age.'
    
    There is a listing of Nicholas as being married before coming to the New World, then he married a Deborah (2) and then Elizabeth (3) who was a widow with a daughter, who may very well be Eleanor. Four sons and 1 daughter were born before he married Elizabeth and Sarah was more likely the only child Elizabeth and Nicholas had together.
    
           Children of Nicholas Utter and Elizabeth are:
    
    + 2 i.   Eleanor2 Utter, born Abt. 1674 in Westerly, Rhode Island; died 1763.
    
    + 3 ii.   Jabez Utter, born Abt. 1660 in Westerley, Rhode Island; died 1727 in Killingly, Connecticut.
    
    + 4 iii.   Thomas Utter, born Abt. 1665 in Westerley, Rhode Island; died 1725-1726 in Kingstowne, Rhode Island.
    
      5 iv.   Nicholas Utter, born Abt. 1670 in Kingstowne, Rhode Island; died 1714-1715 in Westerley, Rhode Island. He married Greenman Abt. 1700 in Westerley, Rhode Island.
    
    + 6 v.   Millesent Utter, born Abt. 1674.
    
      7 vi.   Sarah Utter, born Abt. 1678; died Bef. May 1722. She married John Forman 1712 in Westerley, Rhode Island.
    
      Notes for Sarah Utter:
    * Her children were to receive her share in her father’s will written on date given, implying she was deceased as of that writing...mentioned in the RIGR (Rhode Island Genealogy Registry) p. 311-314
    
    
    
    
    + 8 vii.   William Utter, born Abt. 1679 in Kingstowne, Rhode Island; died June 07, 1761 in Warwick, Rhode Island.
    
      9 viii.   John ? Utter, born 1676 in Westerley, Rhode Island; died 1726. He married Hannah Cottrell Abt. 1700 in Westerley, Rhode Island.
    
      Notes for John ? Utter:
    No mention of a John at all except from someone who may have confused him with another. He is listed on electronic files as marrying a Mercy Cottrell, but no one has yet to prove this marriage ever took place.
    
    
    
      10 ix.   Matthew Utter, born Abt. 1670.
    
      Notes for Matthew Utter:
    More than likely, this Matthew is confused with Matthew Randall...there is no knowledge of a Matthew being a son of Nicholas Mattson Utter. Nor is there mention of a John for that matter as almost all the family was in his will.
    
      11 x.   John ? Utter, born Abt. 1676.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    [NS11513] Higgonson Books and Library of Congress 2nd Copy
    
    [NS28353] Personal Files
    
    [NS11303] Personal Files
    
    [NS24183] Internet GENDEX files, Lockwood Family
    
    [NS7421] Joe Gould and James Russell Utter files from Nicholas Mattson Utter family and confirmed at the Gene Starks GEDCOM database.
    
    [NS7423] http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/a/n/d/Joni-G-Anderson
    
    [NS26773] Personal Files
    
    [NS26823] Personal Files
    
    [NS11463] Personal Files
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    WILL of NICHOLAS UTTER
    > > (from the record at Hartford, Conn.)
    > >
    > > "Stonington, Aug. 17th, 1722.
    > > Robart Burdick & Peter Tift & Elizabeth Tift all of Stonington
    > > personally appeared personally appeared & made oath that they saw Mr.
    > > Nicholas Utter signe and seal the within written will...."
    > > Testator was "Daniell Palmer Justice of ye peace."
    > > "Recorded in the 9th book of wills September ye 14th, 1722
    > > by Rosewell Saltonstall Clerk"
    > >
    > > The actual will reads:
    > > "Item I give & bequeath unto Elizabeth my well beloved wife one bed and
    > > bedding belonging to it which she shall chuse and small iron kettell two
    > > small iron potts three putter platters and two cows to be att her own
    > > disposall and ten pounds a year yearly during her natturall life which
    > > legacy I give instead of her right of dower and power of thirds."
    > >
    > > He then leaves ten pounds to his "daughter-in-law Ellinor Randall wife
    of
    > > Matthew Randall".
    > >
    > > These above two excerpts suggest to me that Elizabeth was a second wife,
    > and
    > > had a daughter named Ellinor.
    > >
    > > He then names his daughter Sarah Forman, eldest son Jabez Utter, second
    > son
    > > Thomas Utter, then son Nicolas Utter, son William Utter, and daughter
    > > Millesent Yeomans. The executors of the estate were Petter Crandall,
    John
    > > Maxson, John Richmond. The witnesses were Robert Burdick, Peter Tifft,
    and
    > > Elizabeth Tift, who made her mark.
    > >
    > > The confusion must come from the witness Elizabeth Tift. However, there
    > are
    > > only three Elizabeths to my knowledge living at the time: Samuel's wife
    of
    > > Elizabeth Jenks Tefft, she was not of Stonington however. There was
    > > Elizabeth Tefft Carpenter, the Carpenters were not of Stonington. And
    > > finally Elizabeth Tefft or Tifft, daughter of Peter Tefft and Sarah
    > Witter,
    > > and granddaughter of Joshua. And the witness Peter Tifft would have been
    > > Peter, Jr. In 1722, Peter Sr was already deceased. Peter Jr would have
    ben
    > > about 23 years of age in 1722, and Elizabeth his sister around 20 years
    of
    > > age.