About William Tutty
Lived 1715 – 1754 (aged 38–39). William Tutty was a missionary.
Reverend William Tutty (c. 1715 – 24 November 1754) was an English-Canadian clergyman. Ordained in the Church of England, he moved to Canada in 1749 as a missionary for Nova Scotia.
Life Tutty was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and ordained priest in 1748. He travelled to Nova Scotia with Governor Edward Cornwallis as a missionary on behalf of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, arriving in Halifax on June 21, 1749.
Reverend Tutty opened St. Paul's Church in Halifax on September 2, 1750, and was the first minister (1750–54).
He returned to England and worked, died and was buried at All Saints' Church, Hertford.
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Canadian missionary
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William Tutty was born in 1715 in Hertfordshire.
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William Tutty died on 24 November 1754 in Hertford.
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William Tutty was a missionary.
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