WEC: "Lived at or near Naples many years, occupied the large Elm House there, after 1839."

Wrote to Mr. Chute and gave your address as "official" Historian, so you may hear from him. Did I imagine it, or did you receive the mass of material that Alice Church, Calif., had collected?

It may be of interest to you to learn that one of my ancestors Nathan Church married in 1829 a Miriam Chute and together they ran the old tavern called THE ELMS in Naples, Maine, way back in 1840.

Miriam Chute was born September 25, 1800 and died May 25, 1862 in Naples, Maine. She had 6 children. All but three died unmarried.

I have quite a bit more genealogy on the CHUTE family and if you are interested would be glad to hear from you.

Mr. Phil Chute of Naples Maine sent me your August 3 letter about your ancestor Miriam Chute.

In the book, "Chute Family in America", printed in 1894, your Church family is described on page 44, confirming the information in your letter. Also much information was prepared by Alice M. Church, graddaughter of Miriam Chute, and is found in many genealogical collections.

Page 43 of the book states that the Elm House, at Naples, was purchased in 1816 by John Chute, Miriam's father.

Since the 1894 book gives the older information I have been gathering just the later material, dated since 1890, to provide a more recent record, mainly of those bearing the Chute name.

(Note to Phil Chute: Looking back through our correspondence, I find no material from Alice Church, but I recall having seen some. Perhaps I'm thinking of her material at the Detroit Public Library.

Glad to hear from you. Hope you're having a good season. All well here.)

WEC: "Lived nearly twenty years in Aylesford, King's County, a farmer and carpenter. He sold out there in the spring of 1840 and moved to Yarmouth, Elgin County, Ontario and there settled and followed his trade and profession some twenty-five years, when he sold out and moved to Flint, Genesee County, Michigan and is still living there, 93 years of age. Has been for more than fifty years a good pious deacon in the Baptist Church."

"At Flint, Mich., on the 25th May, Deacon Nelson Van Buskirk, aged 101 years. The deceased was descended in the seventh generation from Lawrence A. Van Buskirk, who came over from Holstein to New York in 1655, and whose descendants became quite numerous in New York, New Jersey, the far West and South, and in Nova Scotia. The deceased was born in Morristown, N. S., and married Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Abram and Mehitable (Foster) Chute. She died in Nov. 1886, aged 87 years, after 66 years of married life. They lived in Yarmouth, Elgin Co., Ont. twenty-five years; then removed to Flint, Michigan. They had four sons and four daughters, of whom one son and two daughters survive."

WEC: "Had 8 children."

WEC: "Had 8 children."

WEC: "Had 5 children."

WEC: "Had a pair of twins."

WEC: "Had 9 children."

WEC: "Had 5 children."