Notes for DANIEL DIMOCK CHUTE:

Son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Randall) Chute, Jr.
Born: February 7, 1807 in Digby Joggins, Digby County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Died: March 26, 1889 in Black Hills, Western Dakota (now South Dakota).
Married: (1) Elizabeth Rebecca Rand September 29, 1831 in New Canaan, Cornwallis, Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
(2) Mary Alice Eliza Randall Between 1849-1850.

Born at "Digby Joggins," Digby Co., Feb. 7, 1807; taken to Cornwallis by his parents in infancy; married Elizabeth Rebecca Rand by Rev. John Prior, Sept. 29, 1831, New Canaan, Cornwallias, and stayed there till March, 1840 (during which time three daughters and a son were born and died in infancy and childhood), when they moved to Frederickton, N.B., and attended the great celebration of the Queen's marriage the first of May, when a whole ox was roasted. He followed shoemaking. To look for more or better work, he left New Brunswick in March, 1849, and lived in Albany and Greenbush, N.Y., and (hearing that his wife was dead or deserted him), married Mary Alice Eliza, daughter of Paoli and Rebecca Randall, and widow of Captain James W Taylor (lost off the ship Alamance, 1848, aged thirty-three, leaving two sons, James Henry, born 1846, and William George, born 1848), by Rev. George Hall, Apr. 17, 1849, in New York City, and then moved to Mt. Clements, Mich., and drove stage and carried mail till 1852; and stave merchant through the summer of 1853; then went to California; came back in the fall of 1855, and moved to Eyota, Olmstead Co., Minn., and there "farmed it" on a good quarter section of prairie land till 1863, when he sold out and moved to near Albert Lea, Freeborn Co., farmer again. In the spring of 1866, he went to California again; came back in the fall, and since that wandered into Western Dakota and settled in the Black Hills, where he died March 26, 1889. As D.D. Chute was reported dead in New Brunswick, his "widow" married Dea. Eli, son of Hosea Taylor of Orienta, Me., 1853, and lived in Lower Woodstock and Eel River; had three sons and a daughter, two were twin boys that died in infancy. She died Feb. 28, 1891, about eighty.
(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 97-98)