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than by leaving the blessing of God Almighty upon their heads and hearts, souls and bodyes of them and their offspring, unto whose grace I humbly commit them and under whose covert and protection do leave both them and theirs.

And any former wills, gifts by word of mouth, or other bequeathall of any of that small pittance of my goods now remayning to mee, I do hereby revoak and make null and voyd, on the grounds above premised.

And I do hereby nominate and appoint my daughter Barbere Corlet sole executrix of this my last will and testament.

Thus humbly committing myselfe, soul and body into the hands of God's mercy that he will lay no more upon mee than by his Divine assistance I shall be inabled to his honor and my own comfort both in life and death to pass throw, I humbly desire to wait his pleasure when he will come and give me perfect deliverance from and victory over all those evils both of sin and the just demerits thereof that I either feel or have just cause to fear, acknowledging that hitherto God hath given mee cause to say that God hath been a very good, a very merciful and faithfull God unto mee, and doth yet uphold my heart that for the future he will not faile me nor forsake mee.

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lib. 2, pag 195,6.

By THOMAS DANFORTH, Recorder.

Mr. Thomas Danforth and Edward Mitcheson testified upon oath that they were present and subscribed their names as witnesses to this will of Elizabeth Cutter's, and that the deceased was of a disposing mind when she signed and sealed the same. Sworne in court the 5th of the 2nd month, 1664.

RI BELLINGHAM, Dep' Reg".

The Inventery of Elezebeth Cutter, late of Cambridge, who descac'd the 10th of the 11th month, -63.

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Mirs Barbere Corlet appearing in Court and being sworne, do attest that this above written is a true Inventary of all the estate whereof her mother Eliz. Cutter died siezed, and that if any more appear shee will discover the same and cause it to be added thereunto.

Cambe. 5. 2. 1664.

Ent. and recorded lib. 2. p. 197.

By THO: DANFORTH R.

WILLIAM CUTTER.

THO: DANFORTH R.

William, the elder son of Elizabeth, perhaps came to New Eng land prior to her emigration. He was made freeman April 18, 1637, and became a member of the Artillery Company of Boston in 1638.*

* Colonial Records, i. 373; Whitman's Hist. Sketch A. and H. Art. Co., 148.

He lived at Charlestown, where he purchased real estate of Mr. Francis Willoughby, "houses, shops, &c.; " owned a place "near unto the Great Bridge"; and had a grant of land in Cambridge, 1648.+

He pursued the cooper's vocation, and belonged to the association called "Coopers Incorporate," as evident from legislative. enactments of the General Court; ‡ e. g. October 18, 1648.

"Upon the petition of the cowpers inhabiting in Boston and Charlestowne and upon consideration of many complaintes made of the great damage the Country hath sustained by occasion of defective and insufficient caske, for redress hereof

"It is ordered, and the Co'te doth hereby graunt liberty and power to Thomas Venner, John Mileham, Samuell Bidfeild, James Mattock, Willi: Cutter, Bartholo: Barlow, and the rest of the cowpers of Boston and Charlestowne, or the greater number of them (upon due notice given to the rest) to meete together and to appoint a certaine time and place to whch they shall call together all the cowpers, being housekeepers and inhabiting this jurisdiction, who being so assembled, they, or the greater number of them shall have power to choose a m and two wardens, four or six ass., a clarke, a gager, a sealer, a packer, a searcher, and a beadle, wth such other officers as they shall find necessary, and these officers and ministers shall be chosen aforesaid every yeare or oftener," &c. &c.

William Cutter figured in the will of Thomas Bittlestone, who appointed him an overseer over his daughter's portion. He was a creditor to Mr. Nathaniel Sparrowhawk's estate, 1647. IIe attested to sundry deeds, and is mentioned elsewhere in similar instru

ments.

Previously to 12th January, 1653-4, he appears to have returned to England, and resided at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, as a power of at

F. Willoughby, Esq., Charlestown, an Assistant and Deputy-Governor of Mass., died 4 April, 1671, leaving an estate of £4050. 5. 4.

+ Vide Savage, Geneal. Dict.

Colony Records, ii. 250; iii. 133.

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Bittlestone d. 23 Nov. 1640. In will, dated Oct. 30th, he gave his dtr. Elizabeth £150, "for her child's portion"; to Rev. Thomas Shepard, pastor at Cambridge, £5; to Rev. Robt. Fordham, who came over in the ship with him, 20s. "for a token"; to his wife the rest of the estate and his boy John Swan. In case of his daughter's death, ere of "perfect age," then her estate "to return' to his wife; should both" dye," then a third to be given to his "naturall kindred in ould England," a third to the Church of Cambridge, and the other third to his friends "Thomas Cheesholand and William Cutter"; both of whom to "have the oversight" of his daughter's estate. The witnesses were Richard and Barbara Cutter, Katherine Haddon. The Inventory, signed by Thos. Cheeseholme, John Sill and William Cutter, amounted to £271. 2. 2.; £175 of which was in money. He had been probably but a short time in N. E. His widow d. 1 July, 1672. His daughter m. John Briscoe, Watertown.-Vide N. E. Geneal. Reg. ii. 263.

"Mr. Nathaniell Sparowhauke" died 27 June, 1647. His estate was apprised by Mr. Henry Dunster, Edward Goffe, Thos. Chesolme, and part by Gregory Stone; the estate debtor, among others, to Richard and William Cutter, Sister Holban, Mr. John Davis, "petecharie at Boston," John Boutail," and Mr. Shepard, pastor.-Geneal. Register. Namely, Edw. Goffe to Jas. Cutler, 13 Dec. 1649; Nathil. Bowman to Cutler, 14 Dec. 49; and James Cutler (Watertown) to Goffe and N. Sparrowhawk, jr., 15 Feb. 1649-59.

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torney of that date is found in the first volume, Middlesex Registry of Deeds, 133d instrument, to Edward Goffe, Elijah Corlet, Thomas Sweetman, of Cambridge, and Robert Hale, of Charlestown, with Giles Browne and Henry Hawkesworth (Scribe) as witnesses.

In a division of wood and commons on the north side of Mystic river among the inhabitants and estates of Charlestown, March 1, 1658, is the following entry: "Sargt Cutter's hous 10 acr" wood, 1commons." Public woodland and pasture, a frequent source of dispute, was usually disposed of by lot and according to the taxable rates each citizen paid. Sergeant Cutter's property still remained unsold, and his share was assigned to his " hous," or estate, as above. A power of attorney, dated 26th October, 1674, is found in the third volume, Middlesex Registry of Deeds, from "William Cutter, wine cooper, to his loving brother Richard Cutter, cooper; Elijah Corlet, M.A.; Hugh Atkinson, of Northumberland, merchant; and to brother William Stilson, of Charlestown," to sell "his messuages &c." in Charlestown, as before.

"William Cutter's Instructions to his Attorneys.

"1st I desire my three friends Mr. Elijah Corlet and Richard Cutter and Hugh Atkinson, marchant, to joyne together, after consultation about the selling of my houses at Charlestowne, for my best advantage.

2ndly I am willing that the one half of the price should be divided among those friends I named in my letter formerly sent to Mr. Edward Collins, and because I heare the houses are not like to amount to so much as then my friends thought they would amount to, I desire that we may all suffer together.

"3ly What goods may be procured at present that will be merchantable in England I would have them delivered to my friend Mr. Hugh Atkinson, to make the best returns he can for my use.

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"4 I desire my three friends, before named, would all joyne together in the saile of the houses, or if they cannot be sold before Mr. Atkinson depart from New England, I do appoint Brother Stilson of Charlestowne to joine with the other two to sell the houses, and send me the one halfe of them in the most merchantable commodities that can be gott to make returns into England, which returns I desire my friends to intreat Mr. Richard Russell, merchant, of Charlestowne, aforesaid, to consign to Mr. Barret, merchant, of London, who is Major Locrett's Brother-in-law, and intreate him to recieue and order these goods for the use and account of Mr. Thomas Partis of Newcastle-upon-tine.

"Witness my hand and seale the xxvjth day of October Anno Dom. 1674.

WILLIAM CUTTER and a Seale."

Accordingly, 29th May, 1675, the attorneys sold John Phillips, "marriner," the house and land near the warehouse, &c. of Francis

Willoughby, for £120 in money.* June 10, 1693, Richard Cutter transferred his right to the place "near unto the Great Bridge" in Cambridge-consisting of a fourth of an acre of land, with the house and barn upon the same-" formerly the right and proper estate" of William Cutter, "deceased," and "from him due," as Richard's "lawful right and inheritance," to his son William, with William Johnson of Woburn, Jonathan Dunster of Cambridge, and Samuel Cutter (Richard's son) as witnesses.

At Newcastle, in 1656, William Cutter witnessed an instrument intended for the last will and testament of William Reade, formerly of Woburn, Massachusetts. When the great increase in the coaltrade in the river Tyne induced the corporation of Newcastle "to appoint an additional officer to their water serjeant, whose province it was to cess the ballast, make out bills concerning it, &c., with the title of ballast assessor," the third incumbent was William Cutter, "sworn June 23d, 1657." This office, of "great credit and trust," is modernly known by the name "assistant water-bailiff," and the salary was formerly £10 per annum.‡

William Cutter was surely dead by 1693. He was possibly a bachelor, and returned to England obviously without issue. Whether he assumed the marital relation and left posterity in his native country remains doubtful. He was unquestionably a person of station and influence.

RICHARD CUTTER.

Richard, the younger son of Elizabeth, very likely was a voyager in the ship with his mother when she emigrated about the year 1640. He was probably

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under twenty years of age at the time of his arrival, and unmarried. He was a cooper by trade, and the small oaken chest, made to keep his clothes when apprenticed, is now the property of the writer.

Richard became entitled to suffrage in the election of the colonial magistrates by his admission as freeman, June 2, 1641.§ The pri vilege was earnestly desired by every man, and all freemen at that period were required to be " orthodox, members of the church, twenty

Namely, "40 foote in breadth and 70 in length on the street from the Ferry to the Meeting-house." Bounded" at the front or westward end" by the land or garden of Capt. Allen, and "northeast" by the estates of widows Cutler and Hayden.-Vide 3d Vol. Reg. Deeds, bk. 5, 253, 295.

+ Vide Hist. Reed Family, 63.

Brand's Hist. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, ii. 24, annotation "g"; Mackenzie's Newcastle, § Colony Records, i. 378.

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