Speaking of Nicholas Utter: I've been trying to locate the Mescanauge Purchase mentioned in the following citation. Help? 1675 John Crandall, Jeremiah Clark, Thomas Dungan, Clement Weaver and Latham Clarke of Newport and Samuel Reap of Patuxet went up to a place known as the Mescanauge Purchase, in the Narragansett Country, and the proprietors of the land agreed to receive John Crandall and give him a half share of the purchase for his going up with them to settle Nicholas Utter upon the land. They set up a shelter for themselves and for Utter, and left Utter there. Utter improved half an acre of land by planting it. This was the testimony of Jeremiah Clark in a deposition dated 26 Mar 1723 before Wm. Sanford, Justice. Gleanings from Newport Court Files, 1659-1783, Jane Fletcher Fiske, Boxford, MA, 1998, item 181. TIA, Judy