OF THE CUTTER FAMILY OF NEW ENGLAND. By Benjamin Butter. SUPPLEMENT. Compiled by William Richard Cutters. 1871-1875. BOSTON: PRINTED BY DAVID CLAPP & SON. THE compiler in the following SUPPLEMENT found his material growing so rapidly on his hands that he was obliged to curtail all save the most important facts, and these presented in the briefest possible manner. Still it has been his design to omit nothing which he has deemed positively essential to the requisite completeness of his undertaking. To those individuals who have assisted in the preparation of the ensuing pages, and to all who have favored the task with their patronage, the publisher would extend his hearty thanks. Lerington, Mass. WILLIAM RICHARD CUTTER. SUPPLEMENT. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. ARMS OF CUTTER FAMILY. ARMS of the kind here illustrated, and used by the CUTTER FAMILY in this country, are shown to be "totally devoid of authority," and " entirely worthless," in Elements of Heraldry, by William H. Whitmore (Boston, 1866), pp. 75-77. Another authority states that no coat of arms is traced to the CUTTER name; an itinerant maker, about 1800, "cooked up one for anybody." PAGE 1.-"A.D. 1610." Hutchinson, Hist. Massachusetts (3d Ed. 1795), vol. i. p. 91, says, speaking of emigration to New England: "In the year 1610, the importation of settlers now ceased. The motive to transportation to America was over, by the change in the affairs of England." * Mr. Thomas J. Whittemore, of Englewood, N. J. P. 4.-WILLIAM CUTTER. N.B. A letter of WILLIAM CUTTER to President DUNSTER, of larvard College, dated at Newcastle [England], May 19, 1654, is published in Massachusetts Historical Collections, vol. xxxii. (new series), pp. 195-6. In this letter he names "Mr Corlett," and prays the good president to "comfort" his deare & ancyent mother & aunt wilkenson," with his bre: & sisters; "and says, "I often wish I could se them againe & you all: butt it is not like ffor besides other hinderances: truly the sad discouragements in comeing by sea is enough to hinder: vnles it were as formerly: yt we could not inioy the ordina3 of God.” ffor Mr Henry Dunster President off flaruert Colledge in Cambridge these dd in New England. Loucing St I know I am ingaged to write as often as I can to yo'selfe and other ffreinds butt the late warrs with holland did much discourage vs when we heard wt shipps wer taken and losse not only off writeings [?] butt other goods now it hath pleased the Lord to cause the hollanders to seeke peace and yt seuerall tymes: no quest: much against there hye spirritts: butt necessity hath no law: seuerall diurnalls I haue sent to seucrall friends wch I dyrect to Mr Corlett: and some in ptic to yo'selff we are here blessed with peace butt espetially with a Godly magistracy & ministry 3 Independ 3 presbitter: 1 meane att newcastle butt in the Countyes adioyncing: a sect called quakers and others to popery doe much increase rayleing much att the ministry and refuseing to sho any reuerence to maiestrates we hope they wilbe confounded & ashamed off there Tenetts: butt I could desire: thatt some stricter course were taken then is: Now in June next we are to chose a new parlyament & many Annababtists hope that this present peace well not contineu: butt most Godly & wisemen yt I know are off another mynd: the Rebells in Scotland doe contineu lurking in woods and mountaines & boggs & dare scarce eu ingage: it is hoped now since the peace concluded with holland yt this sumier will putt an end to these distractions: itt is very like that y [] will haue much tradeing into NE [New-England] ere long ffor Œ [Old England] neur was so ffull off shiping as now: Itts reported yt we haue taken & sunk in all off the hollanders aboutt 2200 ships: & we haue lost aboutt 800 in all: many good vessells being sold for small rates: and ther ffor merchants are contriuing much how to trade into forraine pts: because the Lord hath blessed th[is] natyon with such plenty thatt this halfe yeare good wheatt is sould for eight shillings the boule & cheaper too: often for 7: wch is 3 off yor Bushells it ncur was knoune so cheape by most men liueing her: we hope ye Lord will giue you tymes off praise & reioyceing as yo" haue had off prayer: we are to haue a day off Thanks giveing next week the inclosed will sho the reasons pray St comfort my deare and ancycnt mother and aunt wilkenson, with my bre: & sisters: I often wish I could se them againe & you all: butt it is not like for besides other hinderances : truly the sad discouragements in comcing by sea is enough to hinder: vnles it were as formerly: y' we could not inioy the ordinas of God I am sorry to heare lately yt Mr hadden is to mary one off the daughters off a very great mallignant: and yt he keeps so much socyety with them: he comes seldom hither your sone Mr John Glouer cald att our house as he went into Scotland to be ouer the hospitall with Coll fenwicks Bro: I hope he will proue honest: Sr 1 rest: Newcastle, May 19, 54 [1654].* Yors WLLM CUTTER. * The original letter is the property of a lineal descendant of President DUNSTER and RICHARD CUTTER, viz.: Mr. SAMUEL DUNSTER, of Attleboro', Mass., author of a Gencalogy of the DUNSTER FAMILY, Chaplin's Life of Henry Dunster, First President of Harvard College (Boston, 1872). The letter is alluded to in Chaplin's Life of H. Dunster, p. 210, note, and in Sibley's Harv. Graduates, vol. i. pp. 209, 585. Mr. HADDEN mentioned in letter-GEORGE HADDEN [H. U. 1646]-Sibley. Harv. Graduates, i. 164, 585. Mr. JOHN GLOVER [II.U. 1650]—16. i. 208, 209, and Life II. Dunster, 210, &c. P. 14.-ELIJAII CORLET, M.A.-The following is the record of his matriculation: "Colleg. Lincoln. 16to. Martii 1626 ELIAS CORLET London. fil. HENRICI CORLET de London. pleb. annos nat. 17."-Mass. Hist. Coll., viii. (3d series), 250.* P. 21.-COL. GEORGE COOKE-"pecuniary difficulties," &c.-line 11 from bottom, in text-"Recovered by law from the estate of GEORGE COOKE, Colonel, for the education of his daughter .... JÑo ffOUNELL." P. 26.—HOLY BIBLE, WILLIAM CUTTER, 1708. The title page of the NEW TESTAMENT in this copy is as follows: "THE NEW | TESTAMENT OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST, | Newly Translated out of the Original Greek, | And with the Former | TRANSLATIONS | Diligently COMPARED and REVISED. | | By His Majestics Special Command. || Appointed to be Read in CHURCHES. I -[[Royal Arms and initials A. R. :][ LONDON, | Printed by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, de- ceas'd; Printers to the Queens most Excellent Majesty. MDCCVI." A copy of this same edition (quarto) of the Bible, belonged to the HUTCHINSON FAMILY, SO eminent in the history of Massachusetts. Vide N. E. Hist. and Gen. Register, xxviii. 83. P. 30.-The statement in the text regarding EPHRAIM CUTTER'S being an officer in Philip's war, &c., is apocryphal. P. 35.—ELIZABETH CUTTER, probably the second wife of NATHANIEL CUTTER (8), was adm. to Cambridge church, Feb. 15, 1719. P. 38. 3 4 RICHARD CUTTER had probably besides the children enumerated [pages 40-11, ante], a son EPHRAIM CUTTER, of New Jersey, who lived at Woodbridge (?), and near the Raritan River. This EPHRAIM CUTTER married SUSAN BURWELL, a Scotchwoman, and with her was a member of the Predestinarian Baptist Church. They had: i. Joux, a wheelwright by trade.. ii. SAMUEL, b. at Woodbridge (?), Oct. 24, 1763; a house-carpenter. His father dying when he was small, he lived with JOSEPH BURWELL, an uncle, in the time of the Revolutionary war, and removed when a young man to Wayne or Holmes Co., Ohio, where he died Aug. 31, 1854. He has living (1874) sons:-EZEKIEL, of Fredericksburg, Ohio.-Joux, of Moreland, Ohio.-SAMUEL, of Remson's Corners, Ohio. Had also a son RICHARD, and a son EPHRAIM.“ 6 RICHARD CUTTER had :-RICHARD SAMUEL, of Altamont, Ill.-George W.,' of Moccasin, Ill.-HENRY,' of Osborn, Mo.-ELIZABETH ANSTORE,' of Newton, Kansas. RICHARD SAMUEL' CUTTER (informant), of Altamont, Ill., m. ELIZABETH OWENS, and has one son-CHARLES RICHARD CUTTER. P. 42.— HANNAI CUTTER, wife EPHRAIM WINSHIP, Lexington — schoolmistress-Hudson, Hist. Lex. (Genealogies), p. 269.† * 1662: CORLET'S scholars so few the town allowed him £10; afterwards an annual grant of £20. 1669 (?): The school-house taken down and set up again-40s. allowed to Corlet for repairing of his house where he kept school.― MCKENZIE, Hist. First Church, Camb. (Boston, 1873), pp. 115, 120, &c. "Another edifice which won early fame, because of the excellence of the man, ELIJAH CORLET, who for more than forty years presided in it, may have been built on these grounds even before the first college hall *** This Grammar Schoole' represented what we now call a High School It would seem, also, that even earlier than this a building, or a room in a building, had been provided for elementary instruction; a ‘Dame's School' for beginners in the humanities."-GEORGE E. ELLIS on Sibley's Graduates of Harvard University, in NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW (July, 1873), No. ccxl. p. 172. Vide Sibley, Harv. Graduates, i. 8, 333, 569. EPHRAIM WINSHIP, her husband (b. Feb. 4, 1687-8), was son of Edward Winship, who d June 10, 1718, æt. 65, and his wife Rebecca Barsham, m. May 14, 1683, and who d. Aug. 17, 1717, at. 61 [vide epitaphs in Harris's Coll. Camb., pp. 54, 58]. EDWARD WIN. SHIP (b. March 3, 1651) was a son of Lieut. EDWARD WINSHIP and his second wife Elizabeth, of Cambridge; his first wife Jane having died about 1650. Licut. WINSHIP, the father, was made freeman, 1635; mem. art. co. 1638; was representative, 1663 and '4, and from 1681 to '36-eight years. Edward and his wife Elizabeth were both chms. Camb 1658. He d. Dec. 2, 1688, aged about 76 years, and his wife Elizabeth d. Sept. 19, 1690, aged 58 [ride joint epitaph, Harris's Coll. Camb., p. 15]. EPHRAIM (i.) and RICHARD (II.) WINSHIP-issue of EPHRAIM and HANNAH (Cutter) WINSHIP births recorded, Cambridge. |