"Born Nov. 11, 1829; married Deborah Edwards May 27, 1856; she died in the fall; he married 2nd, Mary A. Delap, March 24, 859. He came to Massachusetts in 1850, and was a soldier in Co. A, 48th Massachusetts, in the war; died in Cambridgeport, June 25, 1871."

Source: Chute, William Edward. A Genealogy and History of the Chute Family in America: With Some Account of the Family in Great Britain and Ireland, with an Account of Forty Allied Families Gathered from the Most Authentic Sources. Salem, Massachusetts, 1894. Page 138-139.

Fraternal twin to Sophia.

"Born Mar. 5, 1816; married Zipporah Chute (see No. 45), Apr. 4, 1849, and lived on his father's place, up under the North Mountain, three miles from Bridgetown, a quiet, peaceable farmer; his wife died June 27, 1870, aged fifty; he married 2nd, Eliza, daughter of Samuel Eagleson and widow of Captain Zebadiah Van Blarcom, Feb. 1, 1872; (Captain Van Blarcom was drowned in the Annapolis River, Apr. 5, 1869; aged 33, leaving two children, Samuel and Armina). Mr. Chute died Oct. 25, 1891."

Source: Chute, William Edward. A Genealogy and History of the Chute Family in America: With Some Account of the Family in Great Britain and Ireland, with an Account of Forty Allied Families Gathered from the Most Authentic Sources. Salem, Massachusetts, 1894. Page 106-107.

Captain Zebadiah Van Blarcom was drowned in the Annapolis River, Apr. 5, 1869; aged 33, leaving two children, Samuel and Armina."

Source: Chute, William Edward. A Genealogy and History of the Chute Family in America: With Some Account of the Family in Great Britain and Ireland, with an Account of Forty Allied Families Gathered from the Most Authentic Sources. Salem, Massachusetts, 1894. Page 106-107.

"Born in Granville, Apr. 17, 1809; married Hannah Banks, Feb. 13, 1837, and lived in Clarence over forty years; tanner and shoemaker; since 1880 they lived near Paradise; he died June, 1893.

Source: Chute, William Edward. A Genealogy and History of the Chute Family in America: With Some Account of the Family in Great Britain and Ireland, with an Account of Forty Allied Families Gathered from the Most Authentic Sources. Salem, Massachusetts, 1894. page 108.

Paradise Cemetery Records, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, Canada

WEC: "Killed by a log on the side of the mountain."

"Born June 10, 1815; married Havilah Steadman⁴ (James C.,³, John², John¹), Feb. 20, 1848 and lived at Clarence; she died Mar. 12, 1876, aged about fifty-six; he married 2nd, Lydia, daughter of George Witt and widow of Lyman Potter (1807-1859) and Elliott Ritchie (1816-1880), Mar. 23, 1852, and lived near Thorn's Cove or Litchfield, near the "Bay Shore". He died Dec. 18, 1891 and the old lady (b. 1808) lives with her children near Boston."

Source: Chute, William Edward. A Genealogy and History of the Chute Family in America: With Some Account of the Family in Great Britain and Ireland, with an Account of Forty Allied Families Gathered from the Most Authentic Sources. Salem, Massachusetts, 1894. Pages 108-109

The Steadman family records several different dates and years of birth for Havilah: 7 JAN 1817, 1818 and 1820. It may be possible that either she has been confused with sister Horatia, whose birth year is recorded as 1820, or that Havilah and Horatia are the same individual, and the middle initial of "H" in Havilah's name actually stands for Horatia.

"Willet Chute, born January 23, 1820, married Susannah, daughter of Ezekiel and Eliza (Dugan) Foster, Jan 22, 1853 and lived some in Granville, and some in Lynn, Massachusetts; died in Nova Scotia March 31, 1875; she went to Philadelphia, 1876, kept a restaurant through the Centennial and did well. After that she went to Michigan and married A.C. Powell of Berlin, Ottowa County, and he died from an injury by a fall in a mill at Rockford, Kent Co., 1880. She then took her little family to Petosky in the northern part of the state, and kept a summer boarding house, where she married Alonzo Bonfeoy, but he left in a year or so and went to Dakota. She removed to Grand Rapids, Kent Co., in 1883, and had a bakery, grocery and kept boarders. Because she would not marry him, Charles S. Wernau, a boarder, shot her dead and then himself July 27, 1887, she fifty-six, he fifty-four."

Source: Chute, William Edward. A Genealogy and History of the Chute Family in America: With Some Account of the Family in Great Britain and Ireland, with an Account of Forty Allied Families Gathered from the Most Authentic Sources. Salem, Massachusetts, 1894. Page 109.