Mr. William Cutting

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Mark White</U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#0066FF" FACE="Arial" ><B>Colonial Acton</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#333399" FACE="Arial" >   </FONT>  |     <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Colonial Acton"><U>home</U></A></div> <div> back to  <A HREF="id100.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Acton Genealogies"><U><B>Acton Genealogies</B></U></A></div> <div> Mr. William Cutting</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B> <A NAME="mr__william_cutting"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></I><I><B>Mr. William Cutting</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>1701-1805</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id62_mrs__elizabeth_bentley_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Early Acton History"><U><B>Mrs. Elizabeth Bentley </B></U></A></div> <div> Upon Which His Descendents Live In Independence</div> <div> By Robert Nylander</div> <div> Assabet Valley BEACON, Thursday, June 28, 1973</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id20_william_cutting_freed_slave_1735.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Historic Homes and Buildings"><U><B>William Cutting Freed Slave 1735</B></U></A></div> <div> Early Historic Structures of Acton MA. </div> <div> Information complied by the Acton Historical Commission: </div> <div> Anita Dobson, Marian Houghton, </div> <div> William Klauer, Robert Nylander, Stanley Smith, Jr.</div> <div> 1976</div> <div> <A HREF="#epitaph" TITLE="Mr. William Cutting"><U><B>Epitaph</B></U></A></div> <div> Headstone</div> <div> Woodlawn Cemetery, Acton, MA.</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="#descendants_of_william_cutting" TITLE="Mr. William Cutting"><U><B>Descendants of William Cutting</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="6a645700.jpg" border=0 width="325" height="368" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="epitaph"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>Epitaph</B></div> <bR> <div> Erected in Memory of Mr. William Cutting</div> <div> who departed his life </div> <div> May 29th AD. 1784</div> <div> In the 84th year of</div> <div> his age</div> <div> Death like an overflowing flood</div> <div> Does sweep ua all away</div> <div> The Young the old the Middle age</div> <div> To Death becomes aprey</div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Mr. William Cutting</B></I></div> <bR> <div> William Cutting's origins are unknown, beyond what is recorded by Rev. William Bentley, that he was a mulatto, was a slave and acquired his freedom and his land in Concord Village (Acton) on the death of his master. Apparently the earliest reference to him in the Acton town records is his being elected hogreeve at the town meeting of  22 march 1735/6. his wife was admitted to full communion in the Acton Church on 4 February 1738/0, by dismission from another church, but the church records do not say what other church,</div> <bR> <div> William Cutting (or his son) of the same name) was appointed to a committee in March 1779 to provide for families of Acton's solders serving in the Continental Army.  His very impressive gravestone ("price 21 pence") is in Woodlawn Cemetery</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B> <A NAME="descendants_of_william_cutting"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></I><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Century Schoolbook" ><I><B>Descendants of William Cutting</B></I></FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>Generation No. 1</I></div> <bR> <div> <B>1.</B>  W<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >ILLIAM</FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >1</FONT> C<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >UTTING</FONT> was born Abt. 1701, and died May 29, 1784 in Acton, Middlesex, MA..  He married S<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >ARAH</FONT>.  She was born 1708, and died December 25, 1805 in Acton, Middlesex, MA..</div> <bR> <div> More About W<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >ILLIAM</FONT> C<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >UTTING</FONT>:</div> <div> Burial: Woodlawn Cemetery, Acton, MA.</div> <div>      </div> <div> Children of W<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >ILLIAM</FONT> C<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >UTTING</FONT> and S<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >ARAH</FONT> are:</div> <div>      i.     E<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >LIZABETH</FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >2</FONT> C<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >UTTING</FONT>, b. August 20, 1756; m. R<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >EUBEN</FONT> H<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OSMER</FONT>, January 09, 1794, Acton, Middlesex, MA.; b. December 11, 1771, Concord, Middlesex, MA..</div> <bR> <div> Notes for R<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >EUBEN</FONT> H<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OSMER</FONT>:</div> <div> of Mason N.H.</div> <bR> <div>      ii.     W<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >ILLIAM</FONT> C<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >UTTING</FONT>, b. June 01, 1737; d. August 04, 1740, Acton, Middlesex, MA..</div> <div>      iii.     N<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >ATHAN</FONT> C<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >UTTING</FONT>, b. February 23, 1739/40; d. January 13, 1821, Royalston, MA.; m. V<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >ILANA</FONT>.</div> <bR> <div> Notes for N<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >ATHAN</FONT> C<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >UTTING</FONT>:</div> <div> Wasiving in Acton 1761 (Tax List); removed to Royalston in 1762</div> <bR> <div> More About N<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >ATHAN</FONT> C<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >UTTING</FONT>:</div> <div> Baptism: March 02, 1739/40</div> <bR> <div>      iv.     S<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >ILAS</FONT> C<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >UTTING</FONT>, b. October 15, 1742; d. December 23, 1777, Royalston, MA.; m. S<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >ARAH</FONT> A<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >LLEN</FONT>, December 28, 1763, Acton, Middlesex, MA..</div> <bR> <div> Notes for S<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >ILAS</FONT> C<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >UTTING</FONT>:</div> <div> He joined the church of Acton, in full communion, 2 Sept. 1764; removed to Royalston, where he and Nathan were among the constituents members of the church gathered there.</div> <bR> <div> He died 23 or 31 Dec. in the Army from Royalston</div> <bR> <div> More About S<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >ILAS</FONT> C<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >UTTING</FONT>:</div> <div> Baptism: October 17, 1742</div> <bR> <div>      v.     S<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >ARAH</FONT> C<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >UTTING</FONT>, b. March 13, 1744/45; d. April 01, 1745, Acton, Middlesex, MA..</div> <bR> <div> More About S<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >ARAH</FONT> C<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >UTTING</FONT>:</div> <div> Baptism: March 17, 1744/45</div> <bR> <div>      vi.     M<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >ARY</FONT> C<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >UTTING</FONT>, b. July 01, 1746; d. March 21, 1773, Acton, Middlesex, MA..</div> <div> 2.     vii.     L<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >UCY</FONT> C<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >UTTING</FONT>, b. March 26, 1750.</div> <div> 3.     viii.     W<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >ILLIAM</FONT> C<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >UTTING</FONT>, b. March 17, 1753; d. March 24, 1837.</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I>Generation No. 2</I></div> <bR> <div> <B>2.</B>  L<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >UCY</FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >2</FONT> C<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >UTTING</FONT><I> (W</I><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I>ILLIAM</I></FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >1</FONT><I>)</I> was born March 26, 1750.  She married J<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OHN</FONT> J<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >EWELL</FONT> November 24, 1788 in Acton, Middlesex, MA..  He was born in Waterford, Me..</div> <bR> <div> Notes for L<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >UCY</FONT> C<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >UTTING</FONT>:</div> <div> In the town records  to her being a teacher. </div> <div>      </div> <div> Child of L<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >UCY</FONT> C<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >UTTING</FONT> and J<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OHN</FONT> J<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >EWELL</FONT> is:</div> <div>      i.     J<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OHN</FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >3</FONT> J<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >EWELL</FONT>.</div> <bR> <div> More About J<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OHN</FONT> J<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >EWELL</FONT>:</div> <div> Baptism: December 14, 1788, Acton, Middlesex, MA.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>3.</B>  W<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >ILLIAM</FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >2</FONT> C<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >UTTING</FONT><I> (W</I><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I>ILLIAM</I></FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >1</FONT><I>)</I> was born March 17, 1753, and died March 24, 1837.  He married (1) E<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >LIZABETH</FONT> R<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >UGGLES</FONT> November 13, 1777 in Acton, Middlesex, MA., daughter of J<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OHN</FONT> R<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >UGGLES</FONT> and E<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >LIZABETH</FONT> F<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >LETCHER</FONT>.  She was born May 06, 1745 in Acton, Middlesex, MA..  He married (2) S<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >ARAH</FONT> R<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >USSELL</FONT> December 03, 1830 in Acton, Middlesex, MA..  She was born 1750, and died April 06, 1848 in Acton, Middlesex, MA..</div> <bR> <div> <I>Notes for W</I><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I>ILLIAM</I></FONT><I> C</I><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I>UTTING</I></FONT><I>:</I></div> <div> <I>Cutting, William (also given Jr.), Acton. Private, Capt. Simon Hunt's (Acton) co., Col. Eleazer Brooks's regt.; service, 6 days; company called out March 4, 1776, [p.344] at the fortifying of Dorchester Heights; also, same co. and regt.; company return [year not given]; said Cutting reported at White Plains. </I></div> <bR> <div> More About W<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >ILLIAM</FONT> C<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >UTTING</FONT>:</div> <div> Military service: Revolutionary War</div> <bR> <div> Notes for S<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >ARAH</FONT> R<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >USSELL</FONT>:</div> <div> Mrs. Sarah Brooks</div> <div>      </div> <div> Children of W<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >ILLIAM</FONT> C<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >UTTING</FONT> and E<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >LIZABETH</FONT> R<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >UGGLES</FONT> are:</div> <div>      i.     J<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OHN</FONT> R<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >UGGLES</FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >3</FONT> C<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >UTTING</FONT>, b. November 16, 1778; m. S<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >ALLY</FONT> S<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >TONE</FONT>, June 29, 1807, Concord, Middlesex, MA.; d. 1817, Worcester, MA..</div> <bR> <div> More About J<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OHN</FONT> R<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >UGGLES</FONT> C<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >UTTING</FONT>:</div> <div> Graduation: 1802, Dartsmouth College</div> <div> Minister: Bet. 1807 - 1812, Congregational Church, Waldoboro, ME.</div> <bR> <div>      ii.     P<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OLLY</FONT> C<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >UTTING</FONT>, b. November 02, 1783; d. July 27, 1810, Acton, Middlesex, MA.; m. P<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >ETER</FONT> P<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >UFFER</FONT>, May 06, 1810.</div> <div>      iii.     S<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >ALLY</FONT> C<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >UTTING</FONT>.</div> <bR> <div> Notes for S<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >ALLY</FONT> C<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >UTTING</FONT>:</div> <div> possibly married Joseph Robbins of Winchendon 6 Oct. 1805 in Acton</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>