Alexander McNutt (colonist)

Biography:

Alexander McNutt was a British army officer colonist and land agent responsible for seeing an approximate 500 Ulster Scottish emigrants arrive in Nova Scotia during the early 1760s. McNutt emigrated to America some time before 1753 by which time he had settled in Staunton Virginia. In 1756 he was an officer in the Virginia militia on Major Andrew Lewis's expedition against the Shawnees on the Ohio River.