Wallace Nutting was the only son of Albion Nutting and Eliza Sanborn Fifield. He had one sister, Edith Nutting, who died at age eighteen and never married. In 1888 Wallace Nutting married Mariet Griswold. They had no children so this branch of the Nutting family tree ends here.

Wallace Nutting had no children

Wallace Nutting's Paternal Line:
Wallace Nutting writes of his ancestors, "John Nutting I came from England in 1639 as John winthrop's land steward, and settled in Groton, [MA], where, at the door of his house, gun in hand, he was killed when the town was burned in King Philip's War, just a hundred years before American Independence." Historian John Townsend, III, elaborates a bit more on the death of John Nutting, Sr. According to Mr. Townsend, "John Nutting owned about seventeen acres in Groton next to the meeting house and he also owned more land in Pepperell and (Baddycook). He, [John Nutting] was killed by Indians during a raid against Groton and his head was severed and put on a pole by the Indians to discourage others from settling in the area." This was the beginning of the Nutting family in America.

Albion Nutting, (1828) was Wallace Nutting's father
Seth Nutting, (1806) was Wallace Nutting's paternal grandfather.
Abel Nutting, (1758) was Wallace Nutting's paternal great-grandfather.
Daniel Nutting, Jr., (1716) was Wallace Nutting's paternal grt-grt-grandfather.
Daniel Nutting, Sr., (1691) was Wallace Nutting's paternal grt-grt-grt-grandfather.
John Nutting, Jr., (1651) was Wallace Nutting's paternal grt-grt-grt-grt-grandfather.
John Nutting, Sr., (1625) was Wallace Nutting's paternal grt-grt-grt-grt-grt-grandfather.

      Joseph S. Fifield

In 1865 after the death of Wallace Nutting's father, and when the house he built burned, Wallace's mother moved the family north to live with her brother, Joseph S. Fifield, ("Uncle Joe"), who by now had his own farm in Industry, Maine.

Dale P. Clark, author of, "The Settlers Series - The Fifield Family" writes that in 1868 Joseph S. Fifield purchased the large 300 acre Colomy farm on Puddledock Road in Manchester, Maine. Wallace Nutting lived there until February 27, 1870 when "Uncle Joe" married Lucy J. Knowles. Wallace Nutting writes, "...mother and I put our immediate belongings on my sled... we went down to the next house to live with my Aunt Sarah. Not a word was said between my mother and her brother. It was a good example of laconic country customs. It was the proper thing." Wallace Nutting lived on this farm with Aunt Sarah, Uncle Hubbard and cousin Mamie, until circa 1873.

Eliza S. Fifield, (1828) was Wallace Nutting's mother.
John F. Fifield, (1804) was Wallace Nutting's maternal grandfather.
Sanborn Fifield, (1775) was Wallace Nutting's maternal great-grandfather.
Joseph Fifield, (1743) was Wallace Nutting's maternal grt-grt-grandfather.
Samuel Fifield, (1704) was Wallace Nutting's maternal grt-grt-grt-grandfather.
Joseph Fifield, (1677) was Wallace Nutting's maternal grt-grt-grt-grt-grandfather.
Benjamin Fifield, (1648) was Wallace Nutting's maternal grt-grt-grt-grt-grt-grandfather.
William Fifield, (1615) was Wallace Nutting's maternal grt-grt-grt-grt-grt-grt-grandfather.

Peter Fifield Wells makes available on-line his research on eight generations of Fifields in the United States. It can be accessed at: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~fifield/index.html

Dale Potter Clark's "The Settlers Series - The Fifield Family" can be accessed on-line at:
www.rootsweb.com/~mecreadf/newsletter2000.html#fifield