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Husband: Richard CUTTER
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  Birthdate: Abt 1621 Newcastle On Tyn, Nottingham, England
 Death date: 16 Jun 1693 Menotomy, , Massachusetts
     Buried: 1693 - Old Cambridge, Burial Ground
     Father: Samuel CUTTER (Abt 1571-Bef 1640)
     Mother: Elizabeth LEATHERHEAD (Abt 1578-1664)
    Married: Abt 1644                          Place: Cambridge, , Massachusetts
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Other Spouse: Frances PERRIMAN (    -1693) - 14 Feb 1662
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Wife: Elizabeth WILLIAMS
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  Birthdate: Abt 1630 , , England
 Death date: 5 Mar 1662 Cambridge, , Massachusetts
     Buried: 1662 - Old Cambridge, Burial Ground
     Father: Robert WILLIAMS (1607-1693)
     Mother: Elizabeth STALHAM (1608-1674)
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CHILDREN
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1 F Elizabeth CUTTER
  Birthdate: 15 Jul 1645 - Cambridge, , Massachusetts
 Death date: Bef 1693 - Newtown, , Massachusetts
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     Spouse: William ROBINSON (Abt 1640-1693)
       Marr: 10 Jan 1664 -Cambridge, , Massachusetts
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2 M Samuel CUTTER
  Birthdate: 3 Jan 1647 - Cambridge, , Massachusetts
 Death date:
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3 M Thomas CUTTER
  Birthdate: 19 Jul 1648 - Cambridge, , Massachusetts
 Death date:
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Spouse: Abigail ( - )
4 M William CUTTER
  Birthdate: 22 Feb 1650 - Cambridge, , Massachusetts
 Death date: 1 Apr 1723
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Spouse: Rebecca Rolfe ( - )
5 M Ephraim CUTTER
  Birthdate: Sep 1651 - Cambridge, , Massachusetts
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Spouse: Bethia Wood ( - ) Marr: 11 Feb 1679 - Cambridge, , Massachusetts
6 M Gershom CUTTER
  Birthdate:  - Cambridge, , Massachusetts
 Death date: 2 Apr 1738
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Spouse: Lydia Hall ( - ) Marr: 6 Mar 1677
7 F Mary CUTTER
  Birthdate:  - Cambridge, , Massachusetts
 Death date:
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     Spouse: Nathaniel SANGER ( - )
       Marr: 8 Oct 1688
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Husband's General Notes
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Arrived with mother in 1640
Sources:
! CUTTER FAMILY OF NEW ENGLAND BY DR. BENJAMIN CUTTER (1871)
    Richard, the younger son of Elizabeth very likely was a voyager in the ship with his mother when she emigrated about the yera 1640. He was probably 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 privilege was ernestly desired by everyman and all freemen at that period were required to be "orthodox, members of the church, twenty years old, and worth £200." The oath sworn at admission required them to be " true and faitllful" subjects of the Commonwealth, to " yield assistance and support "hereunto " with person and estate; "maintain and preserve" all her "liberties and privileges;" submit to her "wholesome laws;" never ''plot nor practise" evil against her; nor "consent to any that shall so do," He became a member of the Artillery Company in 1643. This association, formed in 1637, met for improvement of discipline and tactics; and comprised the leaders and officers of the volunteer "train-bands" and the principal magistrates and citizens.
    The first regularly organized company in America. It may be considered the germ from which all our military character in New England, if not in the United States, has sprung;" and exists still under the name of the "Ancient and Honorable Artillery" of Boston.
    Richard CUTTER was a member of Cambridge Church in full communion.
! WILL OF RICHARD CUTTER
APRIL 19, 1693
In the name of God, Amen.
    I Richard CUTTER of Cambridge in the Massachusetts colony of New England, being at present weake and sick in body but of sound and perfect mind and memory, and waiting for my great and last change, do ordain and make this my last will and testament in manner and form following (viz.)
    I doe first and principally commend my soule into the hands of Almighty God, hoping through the merritts death and passion of of my savior Jesus Christ, to have full and free pardon of all my sins and to inherit eternal life; and my body I commit to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my executors hereafter named. And as touching my temporal estate as it hath pleased Almighty God to bestow upon me, I give and dispose as followeth;
    I will, after my just debts and funeral charges be paid and discharged, I will and appoint that my loveing wife shall have the whole of my estate, that is to say the yearly rent or income thereof for her maintenance during her natural life, or so long as she shall remaine my widdow.
    Item, I will and bequeath unto my daughter, Mary (now) Sanger eight pounds to be payd in good pay.
    Item, I will and bequeath unto my daughters Hepzibah, Ruhamah, and Sarah, each of them ten pounds apiece to be payed by my executors hereafter named or the survivors of them at the death of my wife or on the marriage of said three daughters Hepzibah, Ruhamah, and Sarah.
    If it happen that any of said three daughters aforenamed shall decease before marriage or before the time of payment (which happens on death of my wife) that in such case it is my will that the survivor of them shall have the deceased's share devided between them. Item, I give to my two daughters Rebeckah (now) Ffillebrown and Elizabeth (now) Hall to each of them five pounds apiece on the decease of my wife.
    Item, I will unto my five sons Samuel, William, Ephraim, Gershom, and Nathaniell all my lands and meadows within the limits of Charletowne to be equally devided amongst them. And it is my mind and will that my son Nathaniel shall have his share (if he desires it) where he now dwelleth. Also it is my mind and will that if at any time any of my sones shall hereafter se cause to sell theire devision or share in the lands to them willed, such son shall make the profer thereof first to his bretheren who shall have the refuse of buying the same. And if any of my aforesaid sones shall neglect to make such offer to his bretheren upon sale of theire devision and except they refuse to buy, such son shall forfeit his land or the value of it.
    Also it is my mind and will that after my wives deceasemy house and homestall with swamp on the Notomie Brook and woodlotts on the Rocks that one of my sones will take the same and the valew thereof as it shall then be prized I doe order shall be devided to all my children that shall then be surviving, only my executors hereafter named shall, at the decease of my wife, out of the valew of said house and homestall first satisfy all debts that shall happen for my wife's maintainance that shall happen necessary, her funerall expenses and all charges of probate and registering.
    Also I do advise, and as a father charge my children to take care of theire mother. I councell my son Samuel to dwell with his brother William CUTTER while he remains unmarried. I do nominate and ordain my sons William, Gershom, and Nathaniell CUTTER sole executors of this my last will and testament, that my body may be buried at Cambridge burying place near my first wifes grave. I do hereby disanull and revoak and make void all former wills and testaments by me made heretofore. I witness hereof I the aforesaid Richard CUTTER to this my last will and testament contained in one half sheet of large paper have set to my hand and seal. I declare it is my mind and will that my son William CUTTER shall if he desires have his share of lands in Charlestowne Bounds next his own meadow.
SIGNATURE AND SEAL OF RICHARD CUTTER
In presence of us:
James Hubbert
John Pratt
John Jackson
Charlestowne. by ye Honourable James Russell, Esc.
! Inscription on his tombstone reads: "Here lyes ye Body of Richard CUTTER, Aged about 72 years, died ye 16 of June, 1693.
! Freeman June 2, 1641
! Torrey says he was born in 1611
! Member of Ancient and Honorable Artillery co. ,1643, the first regularly organized co. in America.
! Member of First Church of Cambridge.
! Gravestone says died April 19, 1693 aged 72.
! Savage Vol.1 p495
    freem. 2 June 1641, ar. co. 1643, by first w. Elizabeth had Elizabeth b. 15 July1645, d. at 18 yrs.; Samuel, 3 Jan. 1647; Thomas, 19 July 1648, d. soon; William, 22 Feb. 1650; Ephraim; Gershom; and Mary; all, says Mitchell, b. and bapt. in this ch. exc. Thomas. His w. d. 5 Mar. 1662, not 1663, as Harris, Epit. I. has it, aged a. 42, and he m. 14 Feb. 1663, Harris, 23 (wh. was bef. the d. of Elizabeth as by him giv.) Frances, wid. of Isaac Amsden, had Nathaniel, 11 Dec. 1663, bapt. 24 Jan. 1664; Rebecca, 5 Sept. bapt. 8 Oct. 1665; Hepzibah, 11 Nov. bapt. 1 Dec1667, d. at 3 mos. Elizabeth b. 1 Mar. 1669; Hepzibah, again, 15 Aug. 1671; Sarah, 31 Aug. 1673; and Ruhamah; and he d. 16 June 1693, aged a. 72. Frances, his. w. outliv. him; and his d. Mary m. Nathaniel Sanger; Rebecca m. 9 Dec. 1688, Thomas Fillebrown; Elizabeth m. a Hall; and Sarah m. 5 Dec. 1700, James Locke of Woburn.
! Bonds Watertown pp192-193
! Lexington, Ma. (1913) Vol.2 pp153-155by Lexington Historical Soc.
! Boston & Eastern Ma. Vol.1 p283by Dr. Benjamin CUTTER (1908)
! Savage Vol.1 pp495-496
! Wells Family p151by Wells/Feldman (1942)
! Boston & Eastern Mass. Vol.1 p408 Vol.2 p650 by CUTTER (1908)
! New England Families Vol.1 p156 by Richard CUTTER
    Richard, son of Widow Elizabeth CUTTER, was born in England, about 1621, and died June 16, 1693, aged about seventy-two years. He probably came before his mother.
    He was a cooper by trade, and his descendants have the small oaken chest made to keep his clothes when he was serving his apprenticeship. He was admitted a freeman, June 2, 1641, when he was doubtless over twenty-one. He joined the Artillery Company of Boston in 1643. He married, about 1644, Elizabeth (???), who died March 5, 1661-62, aged according to her gravestone, forty-two years. He married (second) February 14, 1662-63, Frances (Perriman) Amsden, widow of Isaac Amsden, of Cambridge. He owned several parcels of land in the vicinity of Cambridge. His homestead was in Menotomy, then Cambridge.
    His will was made April 19, 1693, and proved July 24, 1693. Children: Elizabeth, born July 15, 1645; Samuel, January 3, 1646-47, at Cambridge; Thomas, July 19, 1648; William, mentioned below; Ephraim, 1651; Gershom, 1653; Mary, 1657; Nathaniel, December 11, 1663; Rebecca, September 5, 1665; Hepsibah, November 11, 1667, died February 27, 1668; Elizabeth, May 1, 1668-69; Hepsibah, August 15, 1671; Sarah, August 31, 1673; Ruhamah, 1678.
! Topographical Dictionary by Charles Banks
! Pioneers of Massachusetts by Charles Henry Pope p.127
! History of Cambridge, Ma. (1630-1877) by Lucius Paige p.184
! History of Framingham by J.H. Temple p.690
! Ancestral Heads of New England Families (1620-1700) by Frank R. Holmes p.62
! TOPOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH EMIGRANTS TO NEW ENGLAND, by Charles Edward Banks p.131

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Wife's General Notes
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Sources:
! TAG 74:292-298, 1999 proof that wife of Richard CUTTER could not be daughter of Robert Williams
! Arrived with father on the "Rose" in 1637
! Gravestone says died March 5,1661-2 aged about 42 years when she died. That would mean she was born about 1620.
! Pioneers of Massachusetts by Charles Henry Pope p.127