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P. 42. JOHN CUTTER, Deacon-constable, 1725.-Joseph Winship's Admr.'s Acct. An assessor, Cambridge, 1728.-Vide N.E. Hist. and Gen. Register, xxvi. 201. His guardians, 1775 (p. 43, ante], were Dea. JOSEPH ADAMS, John Cutter, miller, and JASON RUSSELL, yeoman.*

P. 43.-LYDIA CUTTER, daughter JOHN CUTTER, adm. to Cambridge church, May 5, 1728. She was born April (13), 1710, Camb. R.; and pub. in order to marriage with SETH REED, Aug. 5, 1732.—T. B. W.†

P. 54.-SAMUEL CUTTER, Lieut., "son Francis" [NATHANIEL FRANCIS M. ANN CUTTER, mother of SAMUEL] owned covenant, Menotomy church, Feb. 12, 1758. His wife, SUSANNA FRANCIS, was sister of Col. EBENEZER FRANCIS, of the Revolutionary army, killed at Hubbardton, July 7, 1777. Widow CUTTER and [son] EBENEZER Owned and occupied two acres in Charlestown, 1798.-T. B. W.

P. 55.-SARAH CUTTER, b. 1702, Cambridge R.-funeral 1788, Feb. 7, Medford-aged 86 years (widow).

P. 60.-AMMI RUHAMAH CUTTER, M.D. AMMI R. H. FERNALD, of Portsmouth, N. H., communicates this notice of his namesake, Dr. A. R. CUTTER :

Those persons who have devoted themselves to promote the ease, comfort and happiness of their fellow men, who have diligently exerted their talents for the public good, through a long and active life, deserve the approbation of their cotemporaries, and to have their names respectfully handed down to posterity. The physician, whose business makes him conversant with the miseries of life, and whose constant study is to relieve the distresses and meliorate the condition of mankind, has the greatest opportunity of experiencing the noblest sympathies of the human breast. No man better deserves the meed of praise, for the exercise of these benevolent feelings, through a long, diligent and skilful course of practice, than the late venerable and respected Doctor AMMI RUHAMAH CUtter. All who have received his unremitted attentions in the hour of affliction, will remember with gratitude his many acts of kindness and affection.

Doctor CUTTER was born at North Yarmouth, in Maine, in 1735. He was the eldest son of Rev. Mr. CUTTER, the first minister of that place; and was educated at Harvard College, where he was graduated in 1752, at the early age of seventeen.

Having determined to pursue the practice of physic, he was placed under the tuition of Doctor Clement Jackson, an eminent physician in this town. Soon after completing his studies, he was appointed surgeon of a regiment raised in this province to oppose the French and Indians, who were making terrible inroads on the English settlements. He continued with his regiment on the frontiers a long time, and until they were ordered to Cape Breton. He embarked with them for that place, and was at the capture of Louisburgh in 1758. After the reduction of that important fortress, he returned to this town, and commenced business in his profession: his urbanity of manners, and assiduous attention, procured him extensive practice. Doctor CUTTER was requested to accept the office of Counsellor under the royal government, but declined because he thought the official duties would be incompatible with his professional engagements. Although he was in habits of intimacy and friendship with the principal officers of distinction before the revolution, and had many inducements to unite with them in politics, yet from principle he embraced the cause of his country, and firmly opposed the oppressive acts of the British ministry. In 1777 he was solicited to take charge of the medical department in the northern army, and notwithstanding the inconvenience to which it subjected him, he accepted the appointment, and remained with the army until the surrender of General Burgoyne. He then returned home and resumed his practice, which he continued until prevented by the infirmities of age. Few physicians have had such extensive practice for such a length of time as Doctor CUTTER. For nearly sixty years his labors were incessant, and the confidence placed in him by the community was unbounded.

The town elected him one of the delegates to the convention that formed the constitution of this State. This is the only instance of his leaving his professional duties, to discharge those of political life. Ile was several years President of the New-Hampshire Medical Society. But his

* "Vigilance committee of church [p. 42]." April 25, 1740, Mr. SAMUEL WHITTEMORE chosen one; also chosen deacon, Nov. 24, 1741 (obf. about 1782-3). 1737, June 24DANIEL CHAMPNEY, Jr., arraigned for intemperance, and put on probation for four months.

THOMAS B. WYMAN, Charlestown, Mass., to whom extreme indebtedness is expressed for important additious and corrections.

reputation was not confined to New Hampshire. The Massachusetts Medical Society and the Massachusetts Humane Society each elected him an honorary member of their respective societies.

"Doctor CUTTER was a Christian; his piety was sincere and rational; the last act of his life was a prayer, which he uttered the moment previous to his dissolution, and that prayer, which bore his soul to heaven, evinced his resignation, his pious confidence, and his belief in the merits of his Redeemer." He died on Friday, the 8th day of December, 1820, aged eighty-six. -Annals of Portsmouth, N. II. By NATHANIEL ADAMS. p. 375.*

P. 76.—SAMUEL CUTTER, born Aug. 7, 1739.—T. B. W.

P. 77.-ISAAC+ CUTTER, Brookfield, m. ELIZABETH FROST, Framingham, June 18, 1743.-Barry's Hist. Framingham, p. 247. She was b. May 10, 1724, dau. of SAMUEL and ELIZABETH (Rice) FROST, of Framingham, Mass.

P. 87.-HANNAH3 CUTTER, m. Deacon Thomas Hall; died Dec. 27, 1704, aged 20.-T. B. W.†

P. 88.-ELIZABETH CUTTER, probably the widow of NATHANIEL3 (1), died in Medford, Nov. 4, 1762. ELIZABETH CUTTER (possibly her daughter), m. SAMUEL FAY, of Westboro', April 6, 1756.—Cooke, Menotomy Records.

P. 91.-JOHN CUTTER, perhaps admitted to the church at Cambridge, Dec. 8, 1734. He, of Woburn, husbandman, bought of FRANCIS LOCKE, Jr., of Cambridge, tanner, three acres marsh in Cambridge, July 15, 1751. Locke's wife's name, Ruth. Reg. Deeds, vol. 50, p. 457; Book of the Lockes (Boston, 1853), p. 40.

P. 91.-NATHANIEL CUTTER, of Woburn, yeoman, sold EBENEZER LOCKE, of Woburn, yeoman, seventy acres of land in Woburn, May 1, 1772. Signed, NATHANIEL CUTTER and SARAH CUTTER.- Reg. Deeds, vol. 73, p. 454. He removed to Princeton, by Feb. 1773 [note, p. 280, ante]. His dau. PHEBE, said to be born at Princeton, 1770 [p. 278, antej, probably an error.

P. 106, lines I and 7 from bottom, in text, for "1763" (twice mentioned), read 1768 (each instance).

P. 109.-RICHARD CUTTER, b. March (25), 1756-Cooke; wife " Miriam ”— Camb. Records (1781). RICHARD CUTTER, Jr., by Rev. Mr. Reed, of Bridgewater, owned covenant Old Cambridge, in order that his children be baptized, Jan. 3, 1:83. "Mr. Thomas Fairweather"- - Fayerweather (?).

P. 171.—JACOBS CUTTER, Capt. Vide notice of STEPHEN and RALPH CROSS, and RALPH CROSS, their father Coffin's Hist. Newbury, 406; also ib. 234, 259. Also of their shipbuilding.-Coffin, 254, 406; and N. E. Hist, and Gen. Register, XXV. 128. Capt. JACOB CUTTER was present at the fatal powder explosion at Fort Constitution in Portsmouth Harbor, July 4, 1809 [Vide Rambles about Portsmouth (24 series), p. 183, &c.]-seven lives lost. The names of A. R., WILLIAM, JACOB, CHARLES W., and other CUTTERS of Portsmouth, are mentioned repeatedly in Brewster's interesting “Rambles."

P. 176, 1. 13 from bottom, in text, after "Portland," insert-Died Jan. 1851. P. 176, 1. 15 and 16 from bottom, in text, erase "d. Jan. 1851."

* Mr. FERNALD contributes also a letter of Dr. CUTTER's, given him several years ago by Matthew H. Stickney, Esq., of Salem, Mass.

"To Capt. RICHARD DERBY, Merchant In Salem. Portsmo., 15th May, 1772. Sir: I have taken every method to sell your wine, but have still one Pipe & half by me-have sent by Mr. Noble £16 for hyall wine. I can assign [uo] reason for the Madeira's laying on Hand unless it be the Quality, for there is no other to be bought in town. I am Sir, yr. Most Hum'l Serv't.

A. R. CUTTER."

ELIZABETH DAVIS, third wife of her husband, widow of Barnabas Davis, and dau, of Eleazer Dowse, of Charlestown.-T. B. W. THOMAS HALL, Sen., mentions in his_will made 1755, as his heirs, only THOMAS, the children of Edward, Ruth, REBECCA, JOHN and WILLIAM.-David B. Hall, Duanesburgh, N. Y.

His daughter HANNAH (i.) was baptized at Cambridge, Jan. 5, 1783.— ELIZABETH MERRIAM (i.), Oct. 3, 1784.—MARY 6 (iii.), Dec. 31, 1786-and son LEONARD (v.), March 12, 1791.

P. 176.-JOHN CUTTER m. ELIZABETH BUCKNAM LORING, of No. Yarmouth, Me., July 25, 1789.-T. B. W.

P. 181, l. 4 from bottom, above poetry, for "buried,” read—busied.

P. 184, 1. 4 from bottom, for "DELIA SWIFT," read-DELIA SANDFORD Cutter. P. 190.-IIULDAH CUTTER-perhaps a daughter of ABRAHAM CUTTER and his wife HULDAH (Bachelder) CUTTER-m. OLIVER WILDER, of Jericho, Vt.; issue, Huldah, b. 1800.-T. B. w. Perhaps the daughter, numbered (vii.) [p. 192, ante], stated to have descendants in Vermont.

P. 221, 1. 8 from bottom, for "Jennie V.," read-GENEVIEVE.

P. 232.-WILLIAM WHITTEMORE (iv.) m. (2d) REBECCA TUFTS. She d. Oct.

29,

1833.

P. 232, 1. 26 from top, for "sumner," read-summer.

P. 233, 1. 8 from bottom, in text, for " 3, 9," read-§ 3, 10.

P. 235, 1. 25 and 26 from top, for "2500 bushwhackers," read -- 2500 bushels wheat.

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P. 236, l. 14 from top, for "Lucy,'” read—Lucy Augusta' Cutter.

P. 243. ELEANOR CUTTER. "ELEANOR CUTTER, Medford, and BENJAMIN BROWN, Salem," m. Medford, July 20, 1826.

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P. 249.-GEORGE' CUTTER-issue additional: — iv. ISAAC, bapt. Dec. 23, 1764, in Charlestown.-v. EBENEZER, bapt. Aug. 30, 1767, in Charlestown.-T. B. W. P. 250.-SAMUELS CUTTER [bapt. infancy, June 1, 1740]. "Samuel Cutter, of Charlestown, age 62, and HANNAH DUNKLEE," m. January, 1803, per Independent Chronicle.-T. B. W.

P. 250.-ELIZABETH CUTTER, m. WILLIAM WHITTEMORE, Esq., d. July 18, 1806. He m. a second wife, REBECCA TUFTS, who d. Oct. 29, 1833. [WM. WHITTEMORE, Esq., and HITTY HOPKINS, Boston, int. mar. May 2, 1807.-Camb. Records.] The former wife d. July, 1806, æt. 43-according to the Cambridge Records. Tradition says ELIZABETH CUTTER and her twin sister HANNAH CUTTER, who in. WILLIAM CUTTER, bore so strong personal resemblance to cach other, that none but acute observers could distinguish them apart.

P. 250, 1. 1 from bottom, after " JOSEPH," insert-7.

P. 250, 1. 4 from bottom, after " NANCY," insert”.

P. 251.-WILLIAM CUTTER 6 son of WILLIAM," Lieut. " WILLIAM CUTTER and NANCY LAITON," published Boston, June 18, 1812.-T. B. W. P. 251, 1. 11 from bottom, after "WILLIAM," erase-".

P. 254, 1. 5 from top, for "Menotomy," read-Charleston, S. C.

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P. 255.-THOMAS CUTTER, a tanner, per deed in 1800. His wife, maiden name, ELIZABETH BROWN, survived the year 1812, an heiress of DANIEL BROWN, of Concord.-T. B. W. ELIZABETH, dau. of DANIEL BROWN, was b. Menotomy, Feb. 25 (bapt. March 2), 1755. DANIEL BROWN and wife of DANIEL, chms. Menotomy, Feb. 22, 1756. ABIGAIL BROWN (perhaps his wife) d. Feb. 12, 1812, aged 92 (Fiske). ELIZABETH CUTTER (widow of THOMAS,3 probably) d. in W. Cambridge, June 13, 1813, aged 58.

P. 255.-SAUNDERS CUTTER m. CLARISSA FLINT; he d. in 1822; widow m. DANIEL HUNT in 1825.-T. B. W.

P. 255.—AMOS CUTTER, son of CHARLES,' d. July 2, 1815, aged 22.—Fiske. P. 255.-ELIZA B. CUTTER should be ELIZA B.' CUTTER, a granddaughter, not daughter of CHARLES CUTTER. ELBRIDGE G. and ELIZA LOCKE had-Sarah Eliza, b. Feb. 20, 1833.-Ruth Augusta, b. Nov. 1, 1836.-B. Cutter's Locke MS.

P. 255.-ISAAC CUTTER came to Charlestown from Cambridge, February, 1787; three children in 1789; in 1798, two acres land.-T. B. W.

P. 256.-ROBERT CUTTER, of Charlestown, 1789; came from Cambridge, December, 1787; living with BENJAMIN HURD, Jr.-T. B. W.

P. 261.-WILLIAMS CUTTER, gravestone standing, not in the "Granary Burying Ground," but in the Common Burying Ground in Boston that on Boston Common.

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P. 263.-DANIEL CUTTER, of Medford. ROBERT CALDWELL and BETSEY CUTTER, both Medford, m. Dec. 12, 1802. GEORGE ABBOT SUMNER and Elizabeth CUTTER, both Medford, m. April 24, 1825. Of his family (?)

P. 266.-SETH CUTTER certainly did guard duty with Capt. JESSE WYMAN'S company on Bunker Hill in 1778, and a company from Woburn, commanded by this same officer, was undoubtedly on the field on the day of Bunker Hill Battle, June 17, 1775, and lost men, but whether SETH CUTTER was one of Wyman's company, and fought at the battle, is somewhat uncertain.

P. 266. JOSEPH CUTTER m. NABBY (or ABIGAIL) SYMMES, dau. of JoHN and ABIGAIL (Dix) SYMMES, of Medford - vide Brooks's Hist. Medford, 543; Bond's Watertown, 199. She was bapt. at Menotomy, March 16, 1760, where her mother was admitted to the church, Oct. 22, 1758 (Cooke), and her father, Sept. 3, 1758, and was, according to the author of the Symmes Memorial (Boston, 1873), p. 58, the only daughter of her parents, and the parent of an only child — ABIGAIL CUTTER, the wife of WILLIAM WOODWARD, a noted lawyer of Ohio, who in August, 1801, was appointed her guardian, and afterwards married her. No children. Vide a few further particulars in the Symmes Memorial, p. 58.

JOSEPH R. CUTTER, of Cincinnati, in a letter dated Feb. 14, 1870, stated, Mrs. ABIGAIL WOODWARD always claimed to be a cousin of his paternal grandfather, and that his paternal grandmother, then living in Cincinnati, distinctly recollected the untimely deaths of the brothers SETH and JOSEPH CUTTER [p. 266, ante], and was personally acquainted with them. After stating that the information already presented regarding this branch of the CUTTER FAMILY was authenticated by his grandparent, nothing further was stated by him, save that in his immediate family, he, himself, was the oldest.

P. 266.-MARTHA CUTTER and HENRY GARDNER were married by Rev. Mr. Hilliard, at Cambridge, Nov. 16, 1784.

P. 267.-MARY CUTTER m. PHINEAS SARGeant. She d. Aug. 26, 1839.

T. B. W.

P. 267.—ABIGAIL CUTTER in the family of P. R. RUSSELL, Charlestown, 1789.-T. B. W.

P. 267. HANNAH CUTTER, from Cambridge, 1788; in family of S. KENT, Charlestown, 1789.-T. B. W. She m. ISAAC WETHERBY (both of Charlestown), March 30, 1796.

P. 277, 1. 23 from top, in text, for "9 Aug. 1857," read-Dec. 9, 1859.

P. 279, 1. 3, in poetry, for "Death," read-"Pain.".

P. 280, 1. 1 from top, in text, for “Travers ”—Traverse.

P. 287.-REV. JOHN HANCOCK, of Lexington, who gathered the church in Cambridge Second Precinct, now Arlington, Sept. 9, 1739, afterwards father-in-law of Rev. SAMUEL COOKE, the first pastor [p. 291, ante], left on record these items on the subject of religious worship in that precinct before the church organization was fully accomplished; the parish being formed in 1732; a church edifice built, 1734, and opened 1735:

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1733, April 1.-I baptized Thomas Osborn; and this was the first child baptized in the congregation at the schoolhouse at Menotomy.

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1735, April 13.-I baptized at 'Notomy, Mercy Osborn.

"1736-7, Jan. 2.-At 'Notomy [baptized] Amos Winship and Hannah Robbins. "1739, Sept. 9.-Chose messengers to Mr. Cooke's ordination."

Mr. HANCOCK-he was the grandfather of the celebrated Gov. John Hancock, who lived with him at Lexington when a boy-left on record also the following items:

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"Feb. 1, 1730.-[Baptized.] Jonas Paige at Bedford; and the first child baptized in their new meeting-house.

“April 25, 1731.—[Baptized.] Thomas Nichols at Shawshin [Wilmington]; in Thompson's house, where I preached. [James Thompson (d. 1763, aged 84), formerly deacon First Church, Woburn, and deacon of Wilmington Church],

"Feb. 25, 1732-3.-[Baptized] at Shawshin Precinct, Asa Thompson and Azel Johnson; and these two were the first persons baptized in that meeting-house." Mr. Hancock also records that "Mr. Bowes, at Bedford" [p. 291, ante], d. March 29, 1752.

The Rev. Samuel Cooke, in an evening sermon dated Dec. 13, 1772, alludes to the origin of the religious society in Menotomy, as follows:-" It is, as I am informed, near fifty years since this society was founded. Those who first thus united in this place to spend a part of the evening of the Lord's day in the worship of their risen Redeemer, are probably all met in the grave, to which each one of you with hasty steps is moving." In a sermon dated Jan. 31, 1773, is this excellent passage: "We have His gospel in our houses; the dispensation of His word and ordinances settled near our dwellings, so that we can come up with those that keep holy day at stated seasons, and return to bless our own houses without fainting by the way. Perhaps there is not a country in the world favored as New England is in this respect at this day!"

P. 325, l. 1 and 2 from top, in text, for "vate" (twice mentioned), read—“ rate” in each instance; 1. 3 from top, for “vat," read—“ rat[e].” [Apparent correct rendering original chirography uncertain.]

P. 342.-Mr. T. J. WHITTEMORE, late of Englewood, N. J., a native of old Menotomy, or West Cambridge, Mass., and son of WILLIAM WHITTEMORE, Esq., the brother and business partner of Amos WHITTEMORE, the celebrated "card machine" inventor, related this anecdote of the card machine, and the famous orator, Joux RANDOLPHI, of Roanoke. He says, while the discussion in Congress for renewal of patent on card machine, in 1809, was in progress, the question came up, and John Randolph said in reply, "Yes, I would renew it to all ETERNITY! for it is the only machine which ever had a SOUL!! Thus corroborating Mr. Everett's idea of comparison with the "human system" [p. 341, ante].

SOME MINOR DETAILS.

PREFACE. Page iv. line 11 from top, for "Joseph E. Frost," read JOSEPH P. FROST.

Page 1, 1. 10 from top, in text, for "rccieved "-received.

P. 5, 1.5 from top, in notes, after "Oct. 30th," insert, "in margin, probable date of recording: "1. 4 from bottom, in notes, for "Holban," read HOLMAN.-T. B. W.; 1. 3, do., to "Geneal. Register," add-vol. vii. 176; 1. 2, do., Goffe to Cutler, "13 (14) Dec. 1649" (bk. i. pp. 6, 7 and 8), wits. Wm. Cutter, B. Crisp.

P. 6, 1. 18 from top, for "third volume," read-fifth, 252d page.-T. B. W.; 1. 13, do., after "WILLIAM CUTTER," insert "of Newcastle-upon-tine"; 1. 15, do., "Hugh Atkinson, of Northumberland, merchant "of "Co. Westmoreland, marchant (?)" ; 1. 16, do., "his messuages, &c. in Charlestown," i. e."bought of Francis Willoughby, Esq., dec'd." Page 6, 1. 8 from bottom, for "Locrett's," read-LEVERETT's; l. 8, do., for "recieue "-recciue.

P. 7, starred note, alter to read thus : "Namely, 40 foote in breadth and 70 in

length, bounded on the street from the Ferry to the Meetinghouse, at the front or westward end;' by the land or garden of Capt. Allen, northeast;' and by the street between the estates of widows Cutler and Hayden, northwest.'-ride 5th vol. Reg. Deeds, 253, 295.”—T. B. W.; 1. 4 from top. in text: estate bounded by Jona. Cane, northerly; bridgeway, westerly; a small highway and marsh, southerly; "also all other lands and rights in Charlestown and Cambridge," belonging to "my brother," RICHARD CUTTER, 66 gave or sold "at same time; 1. 5, do., between "of” (1.4) and "William Cutter" (1. 5), insert "his brother," to render the sense more complete.

P. 9, 1.8 from bottom, in text, for "6 recieve "-receive.

P. 10, second paragraph below epitaph in text, RICHARD CUTTER'S purchase of Hills, 1653, recorded Mid. Reg. Deeds, vol. vi. 387 "houses "-" homestead; " "Winattimus -"Winottimes [Menotomy's] field;" and "sometime" the "lotts" of "Mr." Zechariah Symmes [the minister of Charlestown] and of Edward Convers, of Woburn