September 9, 1739, John and wife were founders of the church in the Second Precinct of Cambridge, now Arlington; signing and acknowledging the covenant drawn up by Rev. Samuel Cooke, the first pastor. Nov. 17, he was unanimously chosen a deacon, and was one of the two incumbents who first held the office in that church.* In his latter days his mind became unsound, and his son John Cutter, "miller," and Joseph Adams, "yeoman," were appointed guardians, Feb. 3, 1775. His wife died twenty years previous to his death. Their monumental stones are readily found near the centre of Arlington burial-ground. Here lyes y Body of Mrs LYDIA CUTTER Wife to Deacon JOHN CUTTER who departed this Life Jan. 7, 1755, in ye 64th year of her Age. In Memory of Deacon JOHN CUTTER Who died Jan. 21, 1776, Æt. 86, And 37th Year of his office. His surviving Children S. Great Grandchildren 115. Dea. John and Lydia (Harrington) Cutter had issue:— i. LYDIA, b. 10 Apr. 1710, and bapt. May 30; m. Seth Reed, of Charlestown, b. Mar. 23, 1705-6. She acknowledged the covenant of Menotomy church, Sept. 9, 1739; and her husband became Church Book, Second Church, Cambridge. Vide APPENDIX. 1741, Jan. 17. Preached twice from Gen. 32: 26. In the evening to a company of young men at the house of Dea. Cutter, from Eccles. 11: 10;-present: Multis."-Rev. S. Cooke's Diary. 1743, June 26. Cooke's Records. Middx. ss. To Dea. John Cutter, & William Cutter Both of Cambridge Greeting. YOU are hereby in His Majesty's Name, Required to make your Appearance before the "Cæsar Cutter, servt. of Dea., hanged himself, aged 30 years."-Rev. S. Justices of Our Lord the KING, at the Superiour Court of Judicature now holden at Cambridge, within and for the County of Middx on the first Tuesday of Augt Inst to give Evidence of what you know relating to an Action or Plea of the Case then and there to be heard and tried betwixt Stephen Farr Jnr Appelant, and Saml Kendal Jnr Appelee. Hereof fail not, as you will answer your Default under the Pains and Penalty in the Law in that behalf made and provided. Dated at Cambridge the fifth Day of Augt In the Sixteenth Year of His Majesty's Reign. Annoque Domini, 1742. BENJAMIN PEMBERTON, Cler. a member of the same church, Sept. 6, 1741. He resided on a i. SAMUEL, b. 22 July, 1733; d. 13 June, 1749.-ii. SETH, b. 7 Apr. 1736; d. 26 June, 1749.-iii. SUSANNA, bapt. 9 Dec. 1739; d. 25 June, 1749.iv. DANIEL, b. 10 Apr. 1742; m. Dorothy Billings, of Medford, 12 Apr. 1762. “Mrs. Dorothy Read " d. 26 Apr. 1789, æ. 47. “ Mr. Daniel Reed d. Charlestown, 22 Aug. 1801.-v. LYDIA, b. 13 June, 1745; m. William Muzzy, of Lexington, 29 Nov. 1764.-vi. SuSANNA, b. 17 Mar. 1750 ; d. 24 Nov. 1753.-vii. HANNAH, b. 6 Jan. 1752-3; d. 24 Nov. 1753. ii. REBECCA, b. 13 July, 1712; joined the church in Cambridge, Jan. 11, 1730-1; and was admitted to the Second Precinct Church at its founding, 9 Sept. 1739. Feb. 10, 1732–3, she married Zechariah Hill, of Menotomy, the son of Abraham Hill, 3d, and great-grandson of the first Abraham Hill, who came from England and settled at Charlestown in 1636. He was b. 26 Apr. 1708, and died in Menotomy 10 Mar. 1768. Dec. 10, 1770, she married Capt. Samuel Carter, of Woburn, the grandson of Capt. John Carter, an early inhabitant of Woburn. He was born 31 Oct. 1694; married Margery Dickson, of Cambridge, 30 June, 1719,† and died 21 Jan. 1787. By her first marriage Rebecca had five sons and six daughters, all of whom were living at the time of her death. "In the general course of her life she enjoyed a share of health not common to persons who live to her age, and retained the perfect exercise of her understanding till two days before her death. She exhibited a distinguished and uniform example of conjugal, parental, and Christian virtues, which secured the esteem and love of all who knew her, and especially endeared her to her numerous family."‡ Her monumental inscription at Arlington reads thus: In Memory of Mrs. REBECCA CARTER the Widow of Capt. SAMUEL CARTER who died 1st Feb. 1797 She was the mother of II and of the fourth generation 134. Issue, all by her first husband: i. SARAH, m. William Adams, 14 June, 1750; d. 11 Nov. 1805, æ. 73. Adams d. Menotomy, 10 Sept. 1787, s. 62.-ii. ABRAHAM, m. Susanna Wellington, 16 Feb. 1758; was grandfather of Gov. Isaac Hill, New Hist. Reed Family, 75. +"Mrs Margery Carter, wife of Capt Samuel Carter, departed this life Sept. ye 27, 1769, aged 71 years."-Gravestone, Woburn Burying Ground. Obituary by her daughter Rebecca, wife of John Cutter; communicated by Mrs. Isaac Sprague, Medford. Hampshire, and a veteran in the French and Revolutionary wars; d. West Cambridge, 16 Dec. 1812, æ. 79.*—iii. ZECHARIAH, m. Rebecca, d. 16 Aug. 1770, æ. 35; and Ruth Robbins, 9 May, 1771; d. W. Cambridge, 11 Mar. 1812, æ. 76. His widow d. 21 Mar. 1816, æ. 78.-iv. Jonn, b. 11 Jan. 1739-40; m. Dorcas Bowes, 1 Aug. 1765; killed Menotomy 26 June, 1798. His widow died 27 Dec. 1823, æ. 79.-v. SAMUEL, b. 31 Mar. 1741; m. Martha Bennett, Charlestown, 13 Oct. 1765. She d. West Cambridge, 20 Mar. 1820, æ. 78.-vi. WILLIAM, b. 8 Oct. 1743; m. Mercy Perry, 3 Dec. 1767; d. West Cambridge, 13 June, 1815. His widow d. 31 July, 1828, æ. 81.-vii. REBECCA, b. 25 Oet. 1745; m. John Cutter [Vide xi. §1, 5].-viii. LYDIA, b. 3 Dec. 1747; m. George Prentice, 21 June, 1770; d. West Cambridge, 3 Sept. 1822. Prentice d. 6 Oct. 1819, æ. 73.-ix. SUSANNA, b. 23 Feb. 1750; m. Maj. Thomas Francis, Charlestown, 11 July, 1771.-x. MARY, b. 7 June, 1752; m. Stephen Hall, 4th, of Medford, 12 July, 1770; d. Medford, 20 Jan. 1822. Hall d. 1 Sept. 1817, æ. 72.-xi. DEBORAH, b. 16 July, 1756. iii. HANNAH, b. 14 June, 1715, bapt. June 19, was a church member Cambridge June 25, 1732; married John Brooks, son of Jabez and Hephzibah (Cutter) Brooks [Vide ii. 12]; resided a while in Shrewsbury, Mass., and died in Woburn Apr. 14, 1742, "Aged 26 Years & 10 Months." Her husband married Elizabeth, daughter of Lieut. Samuel Kendall (published Woburn, 9 Mar. 1744-5), and removed to Stirling, then Lancaster, Mass. Her issue: i. JOHN, b. Woburn, 5 Dec. 1734. "John Brooks, 3d, Lancaster, and Mary Brown, Cambridge," m. 3 Dec. 1767.-ii. JABEZ, b. 30 Sept. 1736. -iii. HANNAH, b. 4 June, 1739; m. Tilly Littlejohn, Princeton, Mass.iv. THOMAS, b. 22 Mar. 1742-3. "Thomas Brooks, Lancaster, and Hannah Cutter, Charlestown,' m. 24 Nov. 1763. iv. MARY,* b. 1 June, 1717; was a church member at Cambridge, Nov. 6, 1737, and with Capt. Ephraim Frost, her husband, a founder of Menotomy Church, 1739. Capt. Frost, the son of Capt. Ephraim and Sarah Frost, b. 10 July, 1715, was an influential citizen in Menotomy, where he died 5 March, 1799. "Mrs. Mary Frost, widow of Capt. Ephraim Frost," d. Oct. 20, 1805. Issue: 66 i. ANNA, b. 22 Oct. 1740; d. 20 Nov. '40.-ii. EPHRAIM, b. 29 Sept. 1742; "Ingentem luctum ne quære tuorum; ostendunt terris iv. STEPHEN, b. 18 June, 1747; m. Susanna Brown, 20 Dec. 1772; d. 15 v. JOHN, b. 13 June, 1720, bapt. June 19. He became a member of Menotomy church, July 12, 1741; and married Lucy Adams, May *Vide Farmer's Monthly Visitor, April 30, 1847. + Vide Sewall, Hist. Woburn, 622. Vide Eneid, lib. vi. 868-70. 21, 1745. She was the daughter of Lieut. Joseph and Rachel (Allen) Adams; was born Oct. 29, 1722, in Cambridge, and joined Menotomy church Mar. 22, 1740-1. "Mrs. Lucy Cutter, widow of Mr. John Cutter," died in West Cambridge, Apr. 17, 1810, "aged 87 years." Mr. Cutter was a miller in charge of his father's establishment in Menotomy. He was a substantial and influential citizen, and resided in the venerable house next above the Universalist Church on Arlington Avenue.* He was rather eccentric, and bore the sobriquet of "minister." He subsisted on an abstemious diet, and for a number of years before his death would drink no water save from a certain spring in the neighborhood. This peculiarity subjected him to annoyance from mischievous boys. He had no issue. His monumental inscription: 4 In Memory of who died Feb. 12th aged 77 years. vi. ABIGAIL, b. 24 Apr. 1722, bapt. Apr. 29, was a member Cambridge church Dec. 3, 1738; a founder of Menotomy church in 1739; and married Samuel Frost, Feb. 19, 1741-2, a founder of Menotomy church, also. Frost was son of Capt. Ephraim and Sarah Frost, of Cambridge; was born Dec. 18, 1716, and d. Sept. 30, 1798, 66 "aged 82."† "Mrs. Abigail Frost, wife to Mr. Samuel Frost," died in Menotomy Mar. 7, 1796, "aged 74." Their issue: i. SAMUEL, b. 7 Dec. 1741; d. soon.-ii. SAMUEL, b. 2 Aug. 1743; d. 24 vii. RICHARD,* b. 9 Mar. 1725-6, bapt. Mar. 27; married Kezia, daughter of James and Hannah Pierce, of Woburn. She was born 10 This house was plundered by the British troops on their retreat from Lexington. They maliciously trampled to pieces on the floor the year's stock of candles which had just been made, smashed in the panels of a book-case which is still in existence, and left the building on fire.-Rev. S. A. Smith's Address, 40, 41. + Samuel Frost made prisoner by the British, 19th April, 1775. Smith's Address, 44;' Frothingham's Siege of Boston, 81, 112. Oct. 1726. Her marriage intention was published July 2, 1747. About 1770, Richard removed his family to Nottingham West, In 1775, he served one month with the provincial forces before Boston, as substitute for his son Seth, then at home on furlough. He fought in the engagement of Bunker Hill, which occurred at this period. He was mainly engaged in agriculture. "M" Keziah Cutter, wife of Mr Richard Cutter, departed this life Dec. ye 19th 1788, in ye 63d Year of her age." "Watch ye, that live, for ye don't know Or what may give the fatal blow He married second, Ruth, daughter of Parrott and Mary (Clark) Hadley, whose family originated in Amesbury, Mass. July 7, 1796, she married Aaron Hamblet, of Hudson. A grave-stone in the burying-ground on Hudson Common is inscribed IN Mr. Richard Cutter who died April ye 8th 1795 ; Aged 70 years. viii. THOMAS, b. 2 Nov. 1727, bapt. Nov. 5. Here lyes y Body of ix. MARTHA, b. 31 Mar. 1731, bapt. Apr. 4; married Jonathan Stone, of Watertown, May 21, 1747; removed to Shrewsbury, Mass., and died Oct. 25, 1807. He died at Shrewsbury, Oct. 3, 1805, æ. 81. Issue : i. JONATHAN, b. 5 July, 1748; married Hannah Gates, of Worcester, 7 June, 1769. He entered the Continental service, and was killed during "Richd Cutter and his wife Desire the name of God may be praised for his great goodness in raising her up from Sickness to so good a measure of health as to attend the publick of God again." "Aug. 7, 1763." |