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- From FindaGrave:
Died at age 63.
The American Guthrie, Lawrence Rawlins, Part I, 1933, p. 78:
About 1680, John severed his connection with his partners and brothers, Robert and James, and with a small capital sought his forture in Ulster County, Ireland. It is probable that his knowledge of the iron industry led him to take up some branch if it. He married a Protestant lady of good family. At that period, the Protestants were unpleasantly situated in that country, and about 1700 he bade farewell to his friends in Ireland and set out to seek his fortune in the new world. After a wearysome voyage of two months, he landed in Boston. After a few years, he moved to Washington, Litchfield County, Connecticut and engaged successfully in the iron business, running a forge and furnace on the Housatonic river. He may have later moved to Durham to avoid the indian wars in Litchfield County. (There are no burial records extant for the cemetery in Durham on Rt 17-Durham Historical Society)
The Ancestry of William Dameron Guthrie as quoted in The American Guthrie p 78
John Guthrie was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, wherer he kept an iron foundry. He left there in 1670 and went to Ulster County, Ireland. In 1700, he emigrated with his brothers James and Robert to America and settled in Washingon, Litchfield, CT, where he established an iron foundry. He died there in 1730.
Amy L. Peoples, of Los Angeles, CA as quoted in The Amercian Guthrie p 78 , a descendant of John Guthrie says, "Sometime about the year 1700, two brothers, Robert and James Guthrie came from the North of Scotland and settled in Pennsylvania, and soon after a younger brother, John Guthrie, came in Connecticut and married a woman by the name of Cone and raised a family of ten children."
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1700 - 1756 (55 years)
