John CLOUTER, of Dartmouth or nearby, "dependent on the Newfoundland fishery in 1642" is likely of Brixham and buried there as John Clouter the elder of this town in 1661. A more junior John Clouter, master of the Bricksom Merchant from Brixham, Devon in Bay Bulls, Newfoundland 1676. In 1682 a Mr Clowter is a planter at Bay Bulls. John Clouter married in Brixham 1657 to Elinor CROUT.