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This is probably going to require Curator assistance, as so many of the profiles involved have been MP'ed. There are duplicate profiles, missing profiles, wrong parents, wrong children, wrong dates, wrong places, wrong this, wrong that - ALL over the place. (There is a lot of BAD documentation out there, intended to "improve" the lineage.)
John Nuthall "of Cross Manor" (he spent only the last few years of his life there) was the son of James Nuthall and Jane Wiseman, and the grandson of thrice-married Margaret Taynter Nuthall Joslin (her maiden name is unknown, was possibly Farr - her Nuthall husband's given name may have been Charles). John Nuthall of London was NOT his father, but was probably a collateral relative (uncle? cousin once removed?).
He was probably from Essex, and certainly NOT from Cheshire.
He was born certainly by 1620, possibly by 1618 or even a little earlier. He was in Virginia by 1630, as an *indentured servant* to one Hugh Hay(e)s of Northampton County, VA - when it was reported that he ran away to live with the Indians. (People who, or whose families, could afford to pay passage did *not* become indentured servants.) "Evidence given in "Report and Accompanying Documents of the Virginia Commissioners" by deposition made by one William Jones, that John Nutwell (Nuthall) was a runaway servant of a Hugh Hays of Accomack Co., VA who lived with Indians until he was caught and whipped."
He was set up on his own trading in furs probably by 1640 - in a Northampton county court order dated January 11,
1640/41, John Nuthall (2) paid 5 and 1/2 pounds of “good marketable beaver or the value thereof”.
He apparently made a trip back to England circa 1642, acquiring his first wife there: Rebecca Bright, daughter of Robert Bright, married John Nuthall in June 1642. The marriage was brief and there were no children. (Whether she died or the marriage was annulled, is not on record.)
Back in Northampton County, Virginia, John Nuthall "comforted the widow" of Dr. John Holloway, and married her in January/February 1644. She had her first husband's posthumous (and only) child, Priscilla Holloway, either shortly after or (more likely) shortly before the marriage. Elizabeth Holloway Nuthall may have been born a Bacon, but the documentation is iffy and some of it is probably spurious.
John and Elizabeth Nuthall had four children, all born in Northampton County, Virginia: Eleanor (c. 1645, m. Thomas Sprigg, Sr.), John (March 22, 1647/8), James (c. 1649), and Elias (c. 1650).
He did not actually relocate to Maryland until c. 1660, and only his children went with him. Elizabeth had died, possibly as early as 1653, and his third and final wife, Jane Major Johnson (nee Larrimore), did not accompany him either. It may be that the marriage (which occurred on Sept 12, 1660 in Hungars Parish, Northampton County, VA) was a near-immediate failure - Jane continued to reside in Virginia, and had provision made for her in the will of her (step)son Richard Johnson on 20 November 1673.
John Nuthall died of unknown causes some time before Oct 10, 1667.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~codd/nuthall9.14.pdf
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