second, over Great Britain, ffrance, and Ireland, King, &c.; conveyed Domini one thousand seven hundred thirty, and three. **** SEAL. mark. ***** mark. "Midd ss. December 28th, 1733. "The above named Gershom Cutter, personally appearing acknowledged the foregoing instrument to be his voluntary act and seal: before me. francis Bowman, Justice of Peace." "Samuell Kendall to Girshom Cutter. A Bond: 1733." "Know all Men by these presents, that I, Samuell Kendall, Juner, of Woobourn, in ye County of Middl, within his Majesties province of ye Massachusets Bay in New England, yeoman, Am holden and ffirmly do stand bound and obliged unto Girshom Cutter, of Cambridge, in ye County aforesd., yeoman, in ye full and just sum of forty pounds, in good and currant money of New England, to be paid unto him, ye said Girshom Cutter, his certain attorney, heirs, Executors, administrators or assigns. To ye which payment well and truely to be made, I do bind myself, my heirs, Executors, and administrators, ffirmly by these presents sealed, witness seal dated this ffourteenth day of December, in the seventh year of yo Reign of our sovereign Lord, George the second, over Great Britain, ffrance, and Ireland, King, &c., one thousand, seven hundred thirty, and three. "The Condition of this obligation is such that if the above bounden, Samuell Kendall, his heirs, Executors, or administrators, shall and do well and truely pay, or cause to be paid unto him, the above named Girshom Cutter, his certain attorney, heirs, Executors, administrators, or assigns, the full and just sum of Twenty pounds, in good and currant money, as is abovesd., or in good bills of creditt on ye province abovesd., with lawfull interest, at or upon the fourth day of Apriell, next ensuing ye date hereoff, without fraud, cozen, or further delay, then ye above writen obligation is to be void and of none effect, but otherwise to stand good and remain in full force, power and virtue. SAMUELL KEndall, Signed, sealed, and delivered Į Thomas Hall her Patience Hall mark. Juner. "Received just two pounds, eight shillings, for this within writen bond for interest. I say received by me, his GERSHOM X CUTTER." mark. "January y 1, 1738-9. Received of Sam" Kendal five pounds, for ye within ritten bond. Received by me. " GERSHOM CUTTER, Juner." He was an executor of his father's will and an heir to his estate; was a farmer in Menotomy, and probably dwelt at the "Foot of the Rocks," a locality in which many of his descendants long continued to reside. May 8, 1678, he bought of Jonathan Dunster six acres of land in Menotomy Fields." Jan. 2, 1693-4, he buys of Richard Procter, for £24, twenty acres of land at the Rocks." Jan. 30, 1698-9, he buys of Israel Mead the third of an orchard, six acres land, situated a half respectively in Cambridge and Charlestown. Sept. 26, 1705, Joseph Rolfe, of Woodbridge, New Jersey, "millwright," deeds, on account of "great trouble about the land," to Edward Winship, Francis Locke, and Gershom Cutter, eight acres at the "Foot of the Rocks," which he had formerly purchased of his brother John Rolfe, "farmer, deceased." August 6, 1721, he was admitted member of Cambridge church. His inventory was taken by Isaac Bowman, Samuel Brooks, and Joseph Winship, June 22, 1738. His son Gershom and grandson Gershom Cutter, with Samuel Whittemore, administered the estate. His gravestone was one of the carliest erected in Arlington old burying-place. Here lyes Buried ye Body of M GERSHOM CUTTER who departed this life April 2, Anno Domi 1738 in ye 85th Year of His Age. 7. MARY, b. about 1657. Mitchell, calling her "Marah," mentions her baptism in Cambridge. She married Nathaniel Sanger, son of Richard Sanger, of Watertown. Sanger, born. Feb. 14, 1651-2, was a blacksmith; assisted in "guarding the mill in Watertown" during Philip's war, and resided successively in Sherborn, Roxbury, and Woodstock, Ct. Richard Cutter bequeathed his "daughter Mary (now) Sanger eight pounds to be payd in good pay." Goodee Sanger-possibly Mary, wife of Nathaniel-was buried in Woodstock, Nov. 20, 1711. Her issue: Bounded E. by Concord road; by land of John Cooper N.; W. in part by Samuel Gibson's, Walter Hastings, and Samuel Greene; and S. by land of Jeremiah Homan. + Newell, Camb. Chh.-Gathering, 63. i. MEHITABLE, b. Sherborn, 1680.-ii. MARY, b. Roxbury, 30 Jan. 1682-3.-iii. A son, b. 9 Dec. 1684; d. soon.—iv. NATHANIEL, b. Dec. 1685.-v. JANE, b. 14 May, 1688. By a second wife, Ruth, Sanger had David, Elizabeth, Jonathan, and Eleazer. He died 1735.* By his wife Frances, Richard had : 8. NATHANIEL, b. 11 Dec. 1663, and baptized Jan. 24, 1663-4, at Cambridge; married, Oct. 8, 1688, Mary, daughter of Thomas and Anne Fillebrown, of Charlestown, born May 5, 1662. Both joined Cambridge church Oct. 28, 1705. Here lyes ye MARY CUTTER wife to NATHANIEL CUTTER; Aged 51 years and about 10 M. Died March 14th 1714.† Nathaniel was an executor of his father's will, and heir to a portion of the "lands and meadows in the limitts of Charlestowne his share being, if he desired it, "where he dwelleth." July 1, 1707, he bought three acres of land in Charlestown of his brother William. April 13, 1710, Nathaniel Cutter of Charlestown, "husbandman," for £40, bought of John Asbury, ten acres "in the second division of lotts," in the "stinted pasture," so called, " lying near Menotomy Bridge."+ About 1715 he married a second wife, Elizabeth Elizabeth Cutter, widow, was present at the founding of Menotomy church, Sept. 9, 1739; and was dismissed from thence to the First Church in Groton, Nov. 12, 1749. 9. REBECCA, b. Cambridge 5 Sept. 1665, baptized Oct. 8; married Dec. 19, 1688, Thomas Fillebrown, of Charlestown; was admitted to full membership in Cambridge church, Jan. 15, 1699-1700; and died Cambridge July 26, 1741. Five of her children were baptized Aug. 11, 1700. Her issue: i. THOMAS, b. 18 Sept. 1689; m. Isabel Cutter [Vide iii. §3, 4].— ii. ANNA, b. 13 Dec. 1691.-iii. ISAAC, b. 7 Sept. 1693.-iv. RɛBECCA, b. 6 Nov. 1695.-v. JOHN, b. 4 Jan. 1700-1; d. 17 Oct. 1772.—vi. ELIZABETH, b. 10 May, 1703; m. Moses Boardman, Bond's Hist. Watertown, 421; Savage, Geneal. Dict. + Harris's Camb. Epitaphs, 51. Bounded S. E. on James Gooding's land; S. W. on Samuel Whittemore's; N. W. on a range way; N. E. on Samuel Whittemore.-Vide Midd. Reg. Deeds, xv. 222; xvii. 54. 25 Dec. 1746.-vii. Sarah, b. 15 July, 1707; m. Josiah Robbins, 29 Jan. 1730-1.-viii. ABIGAIL, b. 18 Aug. 1711. 10. HEPHZIBAH, b. 11 Nov. 1667, bapt. Dec. 1; d. Feb. 27, 1667–8. 11. ELIZABETH, b. 1 March, 1668-9; married April 16, 1690, Nathaniel Hall, of Medford, born July 7, 1666. "Mr Nathaniel Hall Died April ye 14th 1725, in ye 59th Year of his age.” "M" Elizabeth Hall, Relict of Mr Nathaniel Hall, died Nove yo 17th, 1742, in ye 75th Year of her age." Their issue: i. ELIZABETH, b. 9 Jan. 1691-2.-ii. NATHANIEL, b. 25 Oct. 1694; d. 22 Sept. 1773, s. p.-iii. SUSANNA, b. 30 Aug. 1696.—iv. SARAH, b. 8 Sept. 1698.-v. TABITHA, b. 9 May, 1699; m. William Binford, 16 Sept. 1723.—vi. WILLIAM, b. 4 Jan. 1704–5.* 12. HEPHZIBAH, b. 15 Aug. 1671; married June 7, 1698, Jabez Brooks, of Woburn, born July 17, 1673. "M" Hephzibah Brooks, wife to M' Jabez Brooks, departed this life Jan 1st A.D. 1745, in ye 75th Year of her age." "Mr Jabez Brooks" died "January ye 30th Anno Domi 1746-7, in ye 74th Year of His Age." Their issue: i. JABEZ, b. 13 May, 1700.-ii. HЕPHZIBAN, b. 18 Nov. 1701; m. John Cutter [Vide iii. §4, 5].—iii. NATHANIEL, b. 17 Aug. 1703; m. Submit.-iv. DEBORAH, b. May, 1705; m. Jacob Wright, Woburn, 20 Sept. 1733.-v. SAMUEL, b. 18 Apr. 1707.-vi. JOHN, b. 14 Jan. 1709-10; m. Hannah Cutter [Vide iii. $1, 5].—vii. JONATHAN, b. 27 Aug. 1710; m. Phebe Simonds, 23 Aug. 1738.-viii. EBENEZER, b. 1 June, 1712; m. Jemima Locke, 28 Oct. 1736 [Book of Lockes, 23].-ix. SARAH, b. 25 Dec. 1714; m. Thomas Richardson, 18 Oct. 1742; d. Woburn, 12 June, 1784 [Vinton Memorial, 388].—x. BENJAMIN, b. 14 Apr. 1717; m. Susanna Kendall, published Woburn, 5 Apr. 1746; d. 6 Jan. 1769. "A loving Husband to the Wife A tender Parent two Greatly lemented was His Death "The Lord was pleas'd to Call him Home Twas By a falling of A Tree To His Long Home did Go. "And now He slumbers in the Dust And will not rise before The Lord the Judge descends from Heaven Brooks, Hist. Medford, 518, &c. + Jabez was son of John and Eunice (Mousal) Brooks, Woburn, and married (1st) 18 Dec. 1694, Rachel Buck-had Rachel, m. Joseph Wright, 1729, and d. 1759, æ. 55. His mother was daughter of Dea. John Mousal, a founder and much honored citizen of Woburn; and his grandmother Susanna, wife of Henry Brooks, who came to Woburn from Concord, was an "ancient and skillful woman," famous for attainments in medical science. She died 1681. A "true and rare story" of this person occurs in Gookin's Hist. Coll. of the Indians in New England, iv. §7 (Mass. Hist. Coll. i. 168.)-Vide Sewall's Hist. Woburn, 591, 627, &c. 13. SARAH, b. 31 Aug. 1673; married Dec. 5, 1700, James Locke, of Woburn, born Nov. 14, 1677, died Dec. 11, 1745. Of her decease appears no record. Locke built his dwelling "near the west line of Winchester, formerly Woburn." His father, Dea. William Locke, Sen., "lett him go to work for himself when he was young to gitt something to begin the world with," but assisted the purchase of his lands and the erection of his homestead. He sustained several local offices, and his estate at his decease amounted to £1370.* Issue: i. HANNAH, b. 11 July, 1701; m. Thomas Pierce, 5 Nov. 1722; resided Woburn, Leicester, and Hopkinton.-ii. JAMES, b. 17 June, 1703; m. Elizabeth Burnap, 11 Jan. 1727-8; resided Hopkinton and Ashby; d. 1 Sept. 1782.—iii. RUHAMAH, b. 23 Apr. 1705; m. Benjamin Whittemore, Concord, 15 June, 1726, and John Bond, Lexington, 1735.—iv. SARAH, b. 5 July, 1707; m. William Jones, Weston, 25 Dec. 1733; and d. Lunenburg, 20 Oct. 1788: Jones, "a distinguished surveyor," perished at sea 26 Jan. 1761.—v. PHEBE, b. 15 Aug. 1709; m. Daniel Brewer, 9 Sept. 1732, and Isaac Hartwell, 14 July, 1776.—vi. REBECCA, b. 11 Nov. 1711; m. William Monroe, 6 Mar. 1735-6; d. Lexington, 9 Oct. 1798.— vii. MARY, b. 12 Oct. 1713; m. Dea. John Wright, 4 Jan. 1738–9; d. Woburn, 26 May, 1795.-viii. JONATHAN, b. 17 Jan. 1717-18; m. Phebe Pierce, 1 Feb. 1746-7; d. Woburn, 10 Jan. 1799. 14. RUHAMAH, b. 1678; married Feb. 1, 1705-6, Joseph Hartwell, of Charlestown, son of John and Priscilla (Wright) Hartwell, Concord, and born Jan. 24, 1680-1. He lived at Stephen Swan's place, Arlington, and near Squaw Sachem brook, which empties into Mystic Pond a few rods distant. The neighborhood surrounding was then denominated "Charlestown End." From 1732 to 1743 he paid church rates at Woburn, and in 1736 he was chosen a deacon. "Deacon Joseph Hartwell departed this Life Novbr 3d Anno Dom 1743, in ye 63rd Year of His Age." "Mrs Ruhamah Heartwell, Widow to Deacon Joseph Heartwell, Died July 1st 1756, in ye 78th Year of Her Age." Their issue: 66 i. RUHAMAH, b. 12 Apr. 1708; m. James Green, 6 July, 1727; d. *Book of Lockes, 21, 22, 23, &c. + Epitaphs Woburn Old Burying-Ground. A large cedar tree has taken root in the grave of the deacon. N. E. Geneal Reg., Oct. '55, 321; Vinton Memorial, 403. |