Elizabeth Cutter

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Profile of Elizabeth (Simpson) Cutter

Contents 1 PARENTS/LNAB 2 SPOUSE 3 CHILDREN 4 Transcriptions of Confession, Will and Inventory 4.1 GMD Sources 4.2 Torrey's Sources 5 Sources

PARENTS/LNAB

Evidence for Leatherhead: None, except online trees

Evidence for Simpson:

• "England Marriages, 1538–1973 ", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N2P1-6XM : 13 March 2020), Cuthbert Cutler, 1607.
• Elizabeth Sympson, daughter of Robert Sympson, christ. 23 Aug 1573 in Leeds Minster, Leeds, Yorkshire, England.^[1]
• Elizabeth Sympson, daughter of Henry Sympson, christ. 24 Sep 1577 in Featherstone, Yorkshire, England.^[2]
• Elizabeth Sympson, daughter of Mathew Sympson, christ. 1 Jan 1580 in New Malton, Yorkshire, England.^[3]
• Elizabeth Symson, daughter of Humphey Sympson, christ. 22 Apr 1580 in Burnsall, Yorkshire, England.^[4]
• Possible birth record for Elizabeth Simpson: "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NPD5-MW1 : 19 September 2020), Elizabeth Sympson, 1578.

Evidence for Wilkerson:

• "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5NK-NHB : 18 March 2020), Elizabeth Wilkinson, 1573.

SPOUSE

Evidence for William:

• Anderson, Robert C. The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640: A Concise Compendium. (NEHGS, Great Migration Study Project, Boston, 2015). Page 86: Elizabeth Cutter
• Vol. 58: Thomas Shepard's Confessions edited by George Selement & Bruce C. Woolley. Boston 1981: Colonial Society of Massachusetts website:entries for Elizabeth, Barbara, Richard Cutter - transcription and and bios. SAYS WILLIAM IMMIGRATED AND DIED AFTER 1646 (questionable - probably conflated with son William)
• Susan Hardman Moore. Abandoning America: Life-Stories from Early New England. Boydell Press: 2013. pages 86-87: William Cutter (son - 2-page bio)

Evidence for Samuel:

• Cutter, Benjamin & Cutter, William Richard. A History of the Cutter Family of New England. Boston: Printed by D. Clapp & son, 1875. Archive.org, pp. 1-5.
• Gozzaldi, Mary Isabella. History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877: Supplement and Index. Cambridge: Cambridge Historical Society, 1930, p. 174. HathiTrust
• "Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700". Boston, MA: NEHGS, 2015. Online at AmericanAncestors.org, vol. I, page 414
• William Richard Cutter. Historical Homes and Places and genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Vol. IV. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1908. Pages 1891-1893: Elizabeth Cutter. Online at FamilySearch

Evidence for Cuthbert:

• "England Marriages, 1538–1973 ", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N2P1-6XM : 13 March 2020), Cuthbert Cutler, 1607.
• Cuthbert CUTTER, cooper, of towne and countie of Newcastle upon Tyne [Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland]; also spelt Cuthert. Date of probate: 1634, will, 8 February 1634 (DPR/I/1/1634/C14/1), indented inventory, actual total £149 17s 3d (with account of funeral expenses of £7 17s 7d), 1 December 1634 (DPR/I/1/1634/C14/2-6)

inventory of household and shop goods etc. England, Durham, University of Durham Database - North East Inheritance database (pre-1858 Durham Probate Records). Documents scanned and organized by FamilySearch. This particular will is not available online. Maybe available at FHC.

• Rootschat post turned up another result for a Cuthbert Cutter (?) who died in 1619. FindMyPast Burials, Cuthbert Cutter, bur 5 Mar 1619, place Ryton, Church Holy Cross, residence Winlaton. Rylon is about 5 miles west of Newcastle upon Tyne. Both Rylon and Winlaton are currently part of Gateshead, also part of county Durham.

Cuthbert's will: https://iiif.durham.ac.uk/jalava/cs.html#!t2mv405s981f/t2mv405s981f_t2tjm214z867

CHILDREN

William

• Paige, Lucius R., History of Cambridge, Mass. 1630 to 1877 (Boston: H. O. Houghton, 1877), page 521.
• Vol. 58: Thomas Shepard's Confessions edited by George Selement & Bruce C. Woolley. Boston 1981: Colonial Society of Massachusetts website:entries for Elizabeth, Barbara, Richard Cutter - transcription and and bios.
• William Richard Cutter. Historical Homes and Places and genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Vol. IV. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1908. Pages 1891-1893: Elizabeth Cutter. Online at FamilySearch
• Susan Hardman Moore. Abandoning America: Life-Stories from Early New England. Boydell Press: 2013. pages 86-87: William Cutter (son - 2-page bio)

Richard

• Paige, Lucius R., History of Cambridge, Mass. 1630 to 1877 (Boston: H. O. Houghton, 1877), page 521.
• Vol. 58: Thomas Shepard's Confessions edited by George Selement & Bruce C. Woolley. Boston 1981: Colonial Society of Massachusetts website:entries for Elizabeth, Barbara, Richard Cutter - transcription and and bios.
• William Richard Cutter. Historical Homes and Places and genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Vol. IV. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1908. Pages 1891-1893: Elizabeth Cutter. Online at FamilySearch
• Susan Hardman Moore. Abandoning America: Life-Stories from Early New England. Boydell Press: 2013. pages 86-87: William Cutter (son - 2-page bio)

Barbara, wife of Corlet

• Gozzaldi, Mary Isabella. History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877: Supplement and Index. Cambridge: Cambridge Historical Society, 1930, p. 174. HathiTrust
• Paige, Lucius R., History of Cambridge, Mass. 1630 to 1877 (Boston: H. O. Houghton, 1877), page 521.
• Vol. 58: Thomas Shepard's Confessions edited by George Selement & Bruce C. Woolley. Boston 1981: Colonial Society of Massachusetts website:entries for Elizabeth, Barbara, Richard Cutter - transcription and and bios.
• William Richard Cutter. Historical Homes and Places and genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Vol. IV. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1908. Pages 1891-1893: Elizabeth Cutter. Online at FamilySearch
• Susan Hardman Moore. Abandoning America: Life-Stories from Early New England. Boydell Press: 2013. pages 86-87: William Cutter (son - 2-page bio)

Isabel? - nothing so far ...

Transcriptions of Confession, Will and Inventory

Elizabeth Cutter's Confession

A manuscript volume in the autograph of Rev. Thomas Shepard, who succeeded Mssrs. HOOKER and STONE, as minister of Cambridge, Mass, contains the relations of the experience of persons admitted as members of the church (Ref: N.E.Hist. and General Register, xxiii, 369). Among these "Confessions of diverse p'pounded to be received and entertained as members", occurs and important statement of the "experience" of:

"OLD GOODWIFE CUTTER"^[5]

"I was born in a sinful place where no sermon was preached. Concerning my parents, I knew not my father; my mother sent me to Newcastle, where placed in a godly family (as I think), I heard the words, `Fear God and keep his commendments': two of which (the third and fourth commandments) I saw I brake. For six or seven years I was connected there; and then went into another family where the people were carnal, and there fell to a comsumption [waste], and afterward followed with Satan. And afraid, he would have me away, Mr. RODWELL came to me, and was an instrument of much good to me. Afterwards the Lord's hand was sad on me. My husband was taken away, and I was sent to this place [Cambridge] and I desired to come this way in sickness time; And the Lord brought us through many sad troubles by sea; but when here, the Lord rejoiced my heart.

However, when I had come I had lost all hope of salvation, and had no comforter. Hearing from `Foolish Virgins'* that Those who were not sprinkled with Christ's blood were undone, I saw I was a christless creature, and hence in all His ordinances was persuaded nothing did belong to me-durst not seek, nor call God, Father; nor think Christ shed his blood for me. And afterward going to T.S. [Thomas SHEPARD] I found more liberty, and so had less fear. But hearing the `Foolish Virgins were cast off'-so should I be likewise, being a poor ignorant creature. Going to servants of the Lord I told them I could not be persuaded to live thus long; and hearing Mr. SHEPARD say, `If I went as Abram and had such gifts, the Lord would accept'.I sought the Lord the more-though still a poor creature. On a day of humiliation by sundry places in scripture He rejoiced my heart - `Christ came to save sinners' - `Christ came not to save the righteous but sinners-and to find the lost and broken-hearted, Come unto me ye weary'.

But still I thought I had no repentance; yet was encouraged to seek the Lord, and be content with his condemning will, and to lie at His feet, seeing my need of Him-not knowing whither else to go and knowing that whosoever cometh unto Him He'll not cast away. And so I desired the Lord to teach me; and desire to submit."

*The Parable of the Ten Virgins Unfolded. Sermons preached in a weekly sermon begun June, 1638, ended May, 1639^[5]

Elizabeth Cutter's Will

I, Elizabeth Cutter of Cambridge in New England, widow, age about 87 years, being throw the Loard's mercy as yet of sound judgement and memory, yet considering my age and weakness of body accompanying the same, and dayly minded of my latter end, and do therefore hereby declare my last will and testament in manner following, vis:

All my estate now remayning, which is but little, but what it is, what nature or kind soever, I do give and bequeth unto my very loveing sonne Mr. Elijah Corlet and to my daughter Barbara his wife with whome I have now sojourned aboat twenty years, and with love and care with continuall expenses for my support in this my last weakness have been very great, so that I must acknowledge myself utterly unable to recompense their great love towards mee otherwise than by leaving the blessing of God Almighty upon their heads and hearts, souls and bodyes of them and their offspring, unto whose grace I humbly commit them and under whose covert and protection do leave both them and theirs.

Any former wills, gifts by word of mouth, or other bequeathall of any of that small pittance of my goods now remayning to mee, I do hereby revoak and make null and voyd, on the ground above premised.

And I do hereby nominate and appoint my daughter Barbere Corlet sole executrix of this my last will and testament.

Thus humbly committing my selfe, soul and body into the hands of God's mercy that he will lay no more upon mee than by his Divine assistance I shall be inabled to his honor and my own comfort both in life and death to pass throw, I humbly desire to wait his pleasure when he will come and give the perfect deliverance from and victory over all these evils both of sin and the just demerits thereof that I either feel or have just cause to fear, acknowledging that hitherto God hath given mee cause to say that God hath been a very good, a very merciful and faithfull God unto mee, and doth yet uphold my heart that for the future he will not faile me nor forsake mee.

In witness hereof I do put to my hand and seale this 16th day of February, 1662.

(her mark and seal) Elizabeth CUTTER.

Signed, sealed and dd. in presence of Thomas DANFORTH and Edward MITCHELLSONNE.

Entered and recorded April 1, 1864, lib. 2, page 195.6 by Thomas DANFORTH, Recorder. Mr. Thomas DANFORTH and Edward MITCHESON testified upon oath that they were present and subscribed their names as witnesses to this will of

Elizabeth CUTTER's, and that the deceased was of a disposing mind when she signed and sealed the same. Sworne in court the 5th of the 2nd month, 1664.

RI BELLINGHAM, Dept Regr.

(Note: In 1664 April was the second month of the year due to the difference in the Gregorian and Julian calendar. BJS)

Inventory of Elizabeth Cutter's Estate

"The INVENTORY of Elezebeth Cutter, late of Cambridge, who deseac'd the 10th of the 11th month, -63 (By today's calendar would be 10 Jan 1664)

By her wearing clothes

an old black stuff gown

a moroon coloured carsey houp

a tanny carsey wastcoat

two old wastcoats

two pettecoats

three old pettecoats

a womans cloak and two old cloth hoods

two old hattes

household stuff

one feather bed, two bolsters and two pellowes and old green rugs old sarg

courtines and vallances

a pair of white blankets

one great brasse pott, a Iron pott, two pair of pott hooks, a small brasse

skellett

a tramell, tons and fire shulle

a striped carpet

a tapestry carpett

4 old thrum quishens

a pair of stockens and shoes

a trunke and two cheestes

by her lynings

3 shiftes

a old green sarg appren

two blew approns

4 neck handkerchefes

a white bustin wastcoate

six neck clothes and six quines

four pocket napkins

two hoods and some old linen

a taffyti quilt

an old scarf

one linen sheet and two coarse sheets

two fyne pillobears and a coarse one

two paire of gloves

two old brushes

two small flannell blank'ts

The Totall is f s d

19 04 06

Mrs. Barbere Corlet appearing in Court and being sworne, do attest that this above written is a true Inventary of all the estate whereof her mother, Eliz. Cutter died siezed, and that if any more appear she will discover the same and cause it to added thereunto.

Cambe. 5.2.1664 THO" DANFORTH Rec Ent. and recorded lib. 2. p. 197 By THO" DANFORTH R."

Note: The repetitious words "Item, by" in front of each inventoried item was not repeated. The text, spelling punctuation has been extracted verbatim. Taken from the film of the book "The CUTTER Family of New England"^[5]

GMD Sources

Sources listed in the GMD entry p. 86 for "Elizabeth Cutter", assumes husband was named William:^[6]

• MBCR 1:373: William Cutter made freeman 18 Apr 1637^[7] THIS IS PROBABLY HER SON, WILLIAM
• CaBOP 53: Proprietor records (land transactons): William Cutter^[8] PROBABLY SON
• NEHGR 61:69: a letter putting a William Cutter in New Town in 1638 ^[9] PROBABLY SON
• Shepard 89, 144, 179: Confessions, cited inline^[10]
  • p89: "Barbara Cutter came to New England with her father, William Cutter, her mother, Elizabeth, and her brother, Richard, from Newcastle, Northumberland. Her confession of faith was made before her marriage to Elijah Corlet, who arrived in 1641 ... They lived on Dunster Street, where Barbara raised three children, all baptized at the Cambridge church, and cared for her husband and mother—the latter living with them some twenty years. Barbara survived her husband by many years, dying in 1707 or shortly thereafter."
  • p144-146: "ELIZABETH CUTTER (circa 1576–1663) lost her father when she was very young, and her mother placed her with a family at Newcastle, Northumberland. She remained there about six years before moving to another family; then she married. Her husband and three children—William, Jr., Richard, and Barbara—first came to New England, and Elizabeth soon joined them. “Old Goodwife” Elizabeth Cutter and her family are first recorded in Cambridge when her husband, William, helped lay out highways in 1639. The last mention of William Cutter, Sr., occurs in the town book in 1646. Barbara met and married, probably in 1643, Elijah Corlet, master of the Cambridge Grammar School. Elizabeth lived with her daughter and son-in-law until her death in 1663 or 1664, aged eighty-seven. She probably joined the church in 1640". Citing: Savage, 1:496. Town Book, 38, 66, 98. NEHGR, 73:3 (1919). Includes her confesion (above)
  • p179-181: Confession of Richard Cutter:
• Abandoning 86-87: not available online^[11] pages were looked up by Cheryl Skordahl and data will be referenced in the bio ~ Thiessen-117 18:54, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
• TAG 74:292-98: nothing on this Elizabeth or William or Cuthbert^[12]
• Benjamin Cutter and William Richard Cutter, A History of the Cutter Family in New England (1871):^[5] see inline citations below

Torrey's Sources

These sources were attached to the entry for Samuel[?] Cutter in Torrey's N.E. Marriages:

• Cambridge 521: "CUTTER, ELIZABETH, a widow aged 87 years, executed a will, dated 16 Feb. 1662-3, proved 5 Ap. 1664, in which she declares herself to have resided for about twenty years with her dau. Barbary, w. of Elijah Corlett. She had three children who resided here: William; Richard; and Barbary, m. Elijah Corlett".^[13]
• Charlestown 260: Widow Elizabeth of Cambridge, sons Wiliam and RIchard^[14]
• Lexington 153: ^[15]
• Stonington Hist.
• Hinckley Anc. 28-9, 82: ^[16]
• Perry (#2) 4: : ^[17]
• Seeley-Vail 175: ^[18]
• Sv. 1:496: ^[19]
• Shurtleff 321: ^[20]
• Abbott 1:40, 44: ^[21]

Sources

1. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NPT4-V4R : 19 September 2020), Elizabeth Sympson, 1573.
2. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NF78-D47 : 20 March 2020), Elizabeth Sympson, 1577.
3. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NKD1-132 : 19 September 2020), Elizabeth Sympson, 1580.
4. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J3KC-N4H : 21 March 2020), Elizabeth Sympson, 1580.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3} Cutter, Benjamin & Cutter, William Richard. A History of the Cutter Family of New England. Boston: Printed by D. Clapp & son, 1875. Archive.org, pp. 1-5.
6. ↑ Anderson, Robert C. The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640: A Concise Compendium. (NEHGS, Great Migration Study Project, Boston, 2015). Page 86: Elizabeth Cutter
7. ↑ Shurtleff, Nathaniel. Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England. Vol. I. (William White, Boston, 1853-). Archive.org, page 373.
8. ↑ The Register Book of the Lands and Houses in the "New towne" and the town of Cambridge. (Cambridge, MA: 1896). Archive.org, page 53
9. ↑ The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: NEHGS, 1907. Online at Archive.org, vol. 61, page 69 and AmericanAncestors.org($), vol. 61, page 69
10. ↑
11. ↑ Susan Hardman Moore. Abandoning America: Life-Stories from Early New England. Boydell Press: 2013. pages 86-87: William Cutter (son)
12. ↑ Marsha Hoffman Rising. "Enigmas #12: Was Elizabeth, wife of Richard Cutter of Cambridge, Massachusetts, a daughter of Robert Williams of Roxbury?" " in The American Genealogist Vol. 74, pages 292-298. Online at [AmericanAncestors.org]($)
13. ↑ Paige, Lucius R., History of Cambridge, Mass. 1630 to 1877 (Boston: H. O. Houghton, 1877), page 521.
14. ↑ Wyman, Thomas Bellows, The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, 2 vols. (Boston: D. Clapp and Son, 1879). Archive.org, page 260
15. ↑ Hudson, Charles, History of the Town of Lexington, Middlesex County, from Its First Settlement to 1860, 2 vols. (Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1913). [page 153]
16. ↑ Emberson, Myrtle Tedrow, One Hundred and One Ancestors of John Fay Hinckley. (Los Angeles, 1928) [pages 28-29], [page 82]
17. ↑ Sinnett, Charles Nelson, Our Perry Family in Maine: Ancestors and Descendants. (Lewiston Me.: Journal Print Shop, 1911). [page 4]
18. ↑ Bacon, William Plumb, Ancestry of Daniel James Seely, St. George, N.B., 1826, and of Charlotte Louisa Vail, Sussex, N.B., 1837. (St. John, N.B., 1912; with a List of Their Descendants (New York: T. A. Wright, [1914?]). [page 175]
19. ↑ Savage, James A., Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England (Boston: Little, Brown, 1860–62). [vol. I, page 496].
20. ↑ Shurtliff, Benjamin, Descendants of William Shurtleff of Plymouth and Marshfield, Mass. (Revere, Mass., 1912). [page 321].
21. ↑ Abbott, Lemuel Abijah. "Descendants of George Abbott, of Rowley, Mass.". Vol. I. Second and third generations. Ancestry Sharing Link; Image($): page 40: Mehitable Abbott married Gershom Cutter, son of Gershom, son of Richard and Lydia and "gr-ge-son of Samuel and Elizabeth Cutter, the latter who immigrated a widow to N.E. abt. 1640 and settled at Cambridge"