The Virgfinia and Nova Scotia Families of MacNutt or McNutt traced their ancestry to a Scotch family in Galloway, MacNaught, of Kilquhanitie, which estate had been their possesion form 1480 until 1667, which the last of the owners, John left Scotland for Ireland, accompained by his four sons, The family of MacNaught of Kilquhanitie thus became extinct in Galloway. The first of the name of MacNutt who emigrated from the north of Ireland to America was Alexander. Br. 1656 arriving in America Ca 1720.