Samuel Cutler (abt. 1629 - aft. 1706)

Born about 1629 in Norfolk, England [uncertain]

Husband of Elizabeth (UNKNOWN) Cutler — married about 1654 in Massachusetts Bay Colony

Husband of Sarah Church — married 7 Jul 1698 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died after 13 Aug 1706 after about age 77 in Salem, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay [uncertain]

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Biography

Samuel Cutler immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).

Samuel was born about 1629. In September 1700, Samuel Cutler aged about 71 testified as to the ownership of a piece of property in Salem.^[1]

Samuel came to New England from Sprowston, Norfolk, England, with his family and siblings in 1637.^[2][3][4]

He mentioned in a deposition that prior to 1652 he sometimes worked with William Flint on a farm in Salem.^[1]

He married (1) Elizabeth _______, who was named as mother of his five children born in Salem.^[5] Elizabeth Cutler, wife of Sam[ue]ll, sr., died at Gloucester, Massachusetts, 17 March 1692/3.^[6] On 7 July 1698, he married (2) Sarah Church at Salem.^[7]

1653, Samuel Cutler first appeared in Salem.^[8] Samuel Cutler brought a suit for debt against Nathaniel Pickman, a resident of Salem, in Nov 1653.^[9]

1654, it is said that Samuel Cutler was in Marblehead in 1654.^[10] References in the Essex Court records suggest that he was associating with persons who lived in Marblehead, although they do not specifically say he lived there.^[11]

1655, his first child was born in Salem.^[5]

1659, July 7, William Flint and Samuel Cutler were ordered by the Salem selectmen to repair the foot bridge over the marsh at Nathaniel Putnams.^[8]

1661, James Smith, died leaving his wife a farm called "Castle Hill" which was then in the hands of Samuel Cutler.^[12] Mary his wife made her will 28 March 1663. "I do heerby order and apoynt my tennnant Samuell Cutler to pay, That is to say … "legacies her husband left.^[13] Although James was from Marblehead, the "Castle Hill" property was in Salem.^[14]

1664, 1666. Samuel Cutler was a on a list of persons who owed "rates" to Topsfield, from Oct 1664.^[15]

12 September 1668, the town of Salem granted to Samuel Cutler thirty acres near the farms of John Ingerson and Francis Nurse.^[8]

1671 Topsfield^[10]. In 1671, Samuel Cutler of Topsfield, as heir and as attorney for his brothers and sisters, united with his mother, Mary Hewett, in the sale of the patrimonial estate in Hingham.^[16]

June 1678, Samuel Cutler and others were chosen tything men for Salem.^[17]

1693 of Gloucester.^[10] Elizabeth his first wife died in 1693 in Gloucester,^[6] implying that they might have been living there.

Contrary to the myriad of secondary sources that claim he died in 1700, Samuel was still living 13 August 1706. "I Samuel Cutler of Salem ... planter ... for ... chiefly my love & afection I bear unto my Two Sons viz Samuel Cutler & Ebenezer both of [Salem] ... give ... a certain parcall of land both mowing land and planting land Scituate ... Salem ... about 30 acres be it more or less with all my buildings fencings oarchards Mowing & planting lands to be Equaly Divided betwixt my Two Sons ... after my decease ..." the boundaries/abutting lands were described. Signed by Samuel Cutler 13 August 1706.^[18]

Children born in Salem:

1. Hana Cutler, d/o Samll and Eliza, Dec. – 1655.^[5] Hanna Cutler married John Putnam, s/o Nathaniel in Salem 2 December 1678.^[7]
2. Abigail Cutler, d/o Samuell and Eliza 11 m : 1656.^[5]
3. Sarah Cutler, d/o Samuell and Eliza 23:10m 1658.^[5]
4. Samuell, s/o Samuell and Elizabeth, 1661.^[5] He married in Salem, 20 January 1691, Sarah Satle.^[7]
5. Ebenezer Cutler, s/o Samuell and Elizabeth ____ 1664.^[5] Ebenezer married Mary Mash/March, 11 March 1688/9 in Salem.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Essex Deeds Volume 15, page 5; "Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9ZZ-1FCM?cc=2106411&wc=MCBG-Q36%3A361613201%2C361859901 : 22 May 2014), Essex > Deeds 1700-1702 vol 14-15 > image 338 of 665; county courthouses and offices, Massachusetts.
2. ↑ Lincoln, Solomon, An Address Delivered Before the Citizens of the Town of Hingham, on the Twenty-eighth of September, 1835, Being the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of the Town. (Hingham: Jedidiah Farmer, 1835) p. 40 (1635 land grant, 1637 house lot), p. 45 (Daniel Cushing's Record 1st publication); both pages include John Cutler and Henry Tuttil, for Tuttil house lot in 1637 see p. 41
3. ↑ "Daniel Cushing's Record," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol 15, p. 27, (Boston: NEHGS, 1861) Internet Archive, (https://archive.org/details/newenglandhisto65unkngoog/page/n44/mode/2up : accessed December 2023)
4. ↑ Whitney, Henry Austin, Early Settlers of Hingham New England, (Boston: Press of John Wilson and Son, 1865), Contains two sections : (1) "Extracts from the Minutes of Daniel Cushing, of Hingham: With a Photograph of His Manuscript, Entitled, A List of the Names of Such Persons as Came Out of the Town of Hingham, and Towns Adjacent, in the County of Norfolk, in the Kingdom of England, Into New England, and Settled in Hingham in New England," pp 7-12, pp 11, 12 contain the deciphering of Sprowston.: and : (2) "Also Some Account of John Cutler, One of the Early Settlers of Hingham Mentioned in Cushing's List," [https://archive.org/details/earlysettlersofh00cush/page/22/mode/2up pp. 23-28. [https://archive.org/details/earlysettlersofh00cush/page/18/mode/2up pp. between the two sections have pictures of the original Cushing's list .
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6} Vital Records of Salem Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849. Volume I – Births. (Salem, Mass: The Essex Institute, 1916), p. 216; citing CT.R. Essex Quarterly Court Records
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} Vital records of Gloucester, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 Volume 3- Deaths, (Topsfield, Mass. : The Topsfield Historical Society, 1924), p. 102
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3} Vital Records of Salem Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849. Volume III - Marriages, (Salem, Mass: The Essex Institute, 1924), p. 270; citing CT. R., Essex Quarterly Court Records
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2} Perley, Sidney, The History of Salem, Massachusetts, Volume 2, 1638-1670, (Salem, Mass.: Sidney Perley, 1926, pp. 216, 279, 404
9. ↑ Dow, George Francis, (ed.), Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County Massachusetts, Volume I 1636-1656 (Salem, Mass.,: Essex Institute, 1911) p. 319
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1 10.2} Morse, Abner, Genealogical Record of Several Families Bearing the Name of Cutler in the United States (Boston: Samuel Drake, 1867) [www.familysearch.org/library/books/idviewer/58950/23 p. 219, image 23 of 84.
11. ↑ Dow, George Francis, (ed.), Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County Massachusetts, Volume I 1636-1656 (Salem, Mass.,: Essex Institute, 1911), pp. 330, 331, 332, 333,
12. ↑ Dow, George Francis, (ed.), Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County Massachusetts, Volume II 1656-1662 (Salem, Mass.,: Essex Institute, 1911), p. 305
13. ↑ Dow, George Francis, (ed.), Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County Massachusetts, Volume III 1662-1667 (Salem, Mass.,: Essex Institute, 1913), p. 69
14. ↑ Perley, Sidney, "Salem in 1700. No. 33" The Essex Antiquarian Volume 12, p. 177
15. ↑ Dow, Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County Massachusetts, Volume III 1662-1667 p. 386
16. ↑ Suffolk Deeds Liber VII (Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1894) pp 313, 313a, 314; images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99ZS-BXDY?cc=2106411&wc=MCBL-Y3D%3A361613401%2C361829501 : accessed December 2023).
17. ↑ Dow, George Francis, (ed.), Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County Massachusetts, Volume VII 1678-1680 p. 68
18. ↑ Essex Deeds, Vol 19, p. 76 "Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9ZZ-BWLC?cc=2106411&wc=MCBG-3MS%3A361613201%2C361864201 : 22 May 2014), Essex > Deeds 1705-1710 vol 19-21 > image 85 of 729; county courthouses and offices, Massachusetts.

• Cutler, Nahum Sawin A Cutler memorial and genealogical history : containing the names of a large proportion of the Cutlers in the United States and Canada, and a record of many individual members of the family, with an account also of other families allied to the Cutlers by marriage, published 1889. Reference page 319-20
• New England Marriages to 1700

MARRIAGE : 1698

LOCATION : Salem,Essex,Massachusetts,United States

VOLUME : Volume 1

PAGE : 413

TEXT : CUTLER, Samuel & 2/wf Sarah CHURCH; 7 Jul 1698; Salem {Salem 2:216; Cutler 319; Snow-Estes 2:184}

MARRIAGE : 1655

LOCATION : Salem,Essex,Massachusetts,United States

VOLUME : Volume 1

PAGE : 413

TEXT : CUTLER, Samuel (1629-1700) & 1/wf Elizabeth ____ (-1693); by 1655; Salem/Marblehead/Topsfield {Salem 2:216; Putnam 50; Sv. 1:494; Essex Ant. 13:42; Snow-Estes 2:184; Brainerd Anc. 99}