WEC: "Lived on the "Hessian Line" road, near two miles east of Bear River in Clements. He was a very energetic man in religious or secular pursuits. He was a licentiate preacher in the Baptist church; thirty years a justice of peace; taught singing. He often preached in destitute places among the poor; one place was called the "Back Line" among colored people. One old colored man, Deacon Peter Hawkins, died Feb. 3, 1892, near eighty-four, said he helped Abel Chute nineteen years in haying and harvest. He visited his kindred in Ontario in 1854."
Source: 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 SourcesSophia Potter Chute may have remarried an unamed "Spurr" later in life, as she is recorded as "Sophia Spurr" and widowed, in the 1881 Census, and living with her widowed daughter-in-law, Emma Catherine Berry Chute (widow of William Ozias Chute, who died in August of that same year).
WEC: "Lived on the Hessian Line road, opposite his brother Abel. But he unfortunately sold out in 1834 and moved to Prince Edward Island; but not succeeding as he anticipated, returned in 1836. After that, the family broke up and scattered, some to Massachusetts and others settled in Nova Scotia. The winter of 1851-1852 he spent with his brother and other relatives in Ontario. For ten years or more he lived in Salem, Massachusetts. He died at his brother Binea's, Bear River, Nova Scotia. His wife continued to reside in Salem until 1880, when her eldest son, Isaiah, took her to his home, where she died."*
In Salem, was working as a carpenter. In the 1861 Salem, Massachusetts City Directory, James Edward Chute is recorded as living on Tremont, and working as a carpenter. In the same directory, Calvin, also a carpenter, is living on Barr, James E., at 17 Barr, is working as a shoestitcher, and Joseph B., a building mover, is living at 3 Mechanic.
*Note: Despite WEC's comment that Maria Gilliland Chute resided with her eldest son Isaiah, the 1881 census finds her living at the home of her son Calvin Jr., and his wife Lydia Blackburn Chute. It is not known if she lived with Calvin in 1881 and moved in with Isaiah before her death in 1883, or if she was merely visiting Calvin's family when the 1881 Census was taken.
