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cattle, and forty sheep. Like his father, he was large and sturdy in physique. On account of feeble health he was unable to be present at the celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of the Battle of Lexington when eleven of his comrades were present. His wife Dorcas died suddenly November 28, 1798. He mar- ried, second, Mary (Binney) Rice, widow of Solomon Rice, who died in Princeton, Sep- tember 25, 1794. By her first husband she had two children: Betsey Rice, and John P. Rice, who became a well known merchant in Boston. She died March 22, 1816. He died October 19, 1839, at the advanced age of eighty-nine, and was buried, as were both wives, in the cemetery on the homestead. His children were all by the first wife, the first three being born and baptized in Lexington. Children: I. Abijah, born May 28, 1773; died August 21, 1775. 2. Quincy, born April 29, 1775 ; married Patience Brooks, of Prince- ton. 3. Betsey, born June 8, 1777; married Benjamin Gould. 4. Polly, born May 4, 1779; married first, Rufus Dodds, of Prince- ton ; second, Dr. Isaac Warren. 5. Lucy, born March II, 1781; married first, Jonas Beaman, of Princeton; and second, Edward Hanford, of Camden, Maine. 6. Ebenezer, Jr., born June 4, 1784 ; mentioned below. 7. Bitha (Bethia), born July 26, 1786; married Charles Folger, of Camden. 8. Aurelius Dwight, born April 23, 1803, a prominent Boston lawyer ; died unmarried.
(VII) Ebenezer Parker, Jr., son of Ebe- nezer Parker (6), was born in Princeton, June 4. 1784 ; married, February 27, 1806, Hannah B. Merriam, born at Concord, March 11, 1785, daughter of Captain Amos and Deborah (Brooks) Merriam. Her parents were mar- ried December 25, 1783, at Lincoln, Massa- chusetts. Her father, Captain Amos, died September 16, 1804, aged forty-four; his widow married second, Stephen Merrick, who died May 20, 1827; she died November 10, 1844. Ebenezer Parker remained upon the homestead until 1818 when he took up the place now known as the Princeton poor farm, part of the original homestead, a short dis- tance northeasterly from the old house. He was both farmer and clothier. He had a fulling mill at the outlet of the pond and did much business in finishing homespun for the farm- ers. After the destruction of the old brick house on the homestead by fire in the winter of 1835, he took charge of his father's farm. He then spent a few years in Ware, Massa- chusetts, but returned and built the present
house on the homestead, in company with his son Frederick. He. was a man of excellent character and ability ; a useful and active cit- izen. He was selectman in 1829; representa- tive to the general court from his district in 1841, 1842 and 1843. At the age of seventy- five he was in good health, tall, vigorous and erect. He died at the age of eighty-five, Octo- ber 25, 1869. He was a devout member of the Princeton Congregational church. His wife Hannah, a model housekeeper, a loving mother and an attractive woman, lived long and happily, dying August 31, 1876, in her ninety-second year. Children : I. Louisa, born December 13, 1806; married Eli Walker, of Holden. 2. Charles Augustus, born
August 18, 1808; married Sylvia A. Moore. 3. Frederick, born June 19, 1810; married Eunice C. Howe, of Princeton. 4. Ebenezer Warren, born October 28, 1813; married Chloe A. Parmenter, of Oakham. 5. Adaline (twin), born October 24, 1815; married Stephen H. Smith, of West Boylston. 6. Amos (twin), born October 24, 1815; mar- ried Sarah Merrill, of Beverly. 7. George (twin), born February 1, 1818; married Emily R. Collier, of Northfield. 8. Child, un- named, born and died February 1, 1818. 9. Deborah Merriam, born September 9, 1819; married Israel Howe, of Princeton. 10. Wil- liam Wheeler, born March 2, 1824; married Emily Walker, of Holden. 11. Edward Han- ford, born December 28, 1825; married Mary C. Brown, of Boylston. 12. Lucy Maria, born September 10, 1828, died March 7, 1829.
(VIII) George Parker, twin son of Ebe- nezer Parker (7), was born in Princeton, Feb- ruary 1, 1818. Married, September 14, 1841, Emily R. Collar, daughter of Rev. Hezekiah and Rhody (Robbins) Collar, of Northfield, Massachusetts. They lived in Lowell and for a few years only upon the Princeton home- stead. In 1856, accompanied by his brother, E. Warren Parker, he went to Urbana, Illi- nois, to live, but he soon returned. In 1874 he removed to East Blackstone, Massachusetts, where he lived the remainder of his life. He died January 20, 1893, in his seventy-fifth year. Children: I. Walter E., born Septem- ber 27, 1847, mentioned below. 2. Herbert, born in Lowell, April 23, 1850; was a freight transfer clerk in the employ of the Providence & Worcester Railroad; died unmarried Jan- uary 23, 1873.
(IX) Walter Edward Parker, son of George Parker (8), was born in Princeton, September 27, 1847. Four years of his early
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life were passed in Illinois, whence the family returned in 1861 to Westboro, Massachusetts, and then to Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Early in 1863 he entered the employ of the Social Mill, Woonsocket, as clerk in the counting room, continuing to attend school, however. After two years he devoted all his time to his duties at the mill, except a few months spent at a drawing school in Boston. He worked his way steadily and with persistent energy to responsible positions in the mill, and when it was enlarged he made the plans and assisted in carrying them out. He became superintendent of the Globe Mill of Woon- socket, October 27, 1876, continuing in this responsible position until April 1, 1881, when he left to take charge of the cotton department of the Pacific Mills in Lawrence, Massachu- setts. He was appointed agent of the Pacific Corporation, January 1, 1887, a position he has since occupied with great success. He was from January 8, 1878, to January 12, 1892, a director of the Producers' National Bank of Woonsocket. In 1886 was made a trustee of the estate of Charles Nourse and is still serving in that capacity. In Lawrence he became vice-president of the Merchants' National Bank when it was organized in 1889. For several years he has been a trustee of the Essex Savings Bank, and is now its president. He was president of the New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association in 1889, 1890 and 1891 ; president of the Lawrence Lumber Company; president of the City Mission ; chairman of the board of advice of the Law- rence General Hospital ; a trustee with Judge Bell and Wilbur E. Rowell of the "White Fund," and by virtue of this a trustee of the Lawrence Public Library; a trustee of the Lowell Textile School; was a member of the first license committee of the city of Law- rence; in 1904 was alternate to the Chicago convention which nominated President Roose- velt ; one of the founders of the Textile Club and its second president (this is for New England) ; a trustee of the Lawrence Home for Aged People; trustee of Tufts College and chairman of the finance committee; has been a director of the Lawrence Gas Com- pany. He is a member and formerly vice- president of the Home Market Club, member of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers, of the American Society of Mechanical Engin- eers, of the Society of Arts, London, England, and was formerly a member of the Boston Athletic Association. He has been connected with the Masonic Order since 1869, when he
became a member of Morning Star Lodge of Woonsocket, of which he was master in 1877. He was commander of Woonsocket Com- mandery, Knights Templar, for two years. In politics he is a staunch and influential Re- publican. In 1877 he was president of the town council of Woonsocket. He is a mem- ber of the Church of the Good Shepherd (Universalist ) Lawrence, Massachusetts.
He married first, October 12, 1870, Anna Augusta Elliott, of Woonsocket, daughter of Nathaniel and Olive A. (Jenks) Elliott. She clied February 4, 1875. He married second, May 2, 1877, Alida Charlotte Willis, born at North Dana, Massachusetts, January 26, 1849, daughter of the Rev. John H. and Char- lotte (Gleason) Willis, of College Hill. She died September 9, 1885. He married third, January 1, 1888, Mary Bradley Beetle, of Lawrence, daughter of John and Harriet (Brown) Beetle, of Nantucket. Child of first wife: Herbert S., born October 18, 1874. Child of second wife: Helen, born June 27, 1878.
John Adams was an early ADAMS comer and first settler in the west part of Cambridge, long called Menotomy, later West Cambridge, and now Arlington. By many he is believed to be the son of Henry Adams, of Braintree, coming to America with his parents when young, returning with his mother to England, and coming again with his wife and daughter at a later date, and settled in Cambridge. Elisha Thayer, in his "Memorial of the Thay- er and Adams Families," says that John, son of the first Henry, went with his brothers Thomas and Samuel to Concord and Chelms- ford, where he was in 1654; "after this period I have not been able to trace him." Shattuck, in his "History of Concord," says John came to Concord, removing thence to Cambridge, where he was in 1650. Dr. James Savage, author of the "Genealogical Dictionary" which was designed to give an account of all the earliest or first comers, wrote "that he was son of Henry, as amiable credulity would assume, is highly improbable, since he came twenty years or a little less after that great progenitor, and so long outlived him, dying between June and October, 1705-06." Dr. Bond says he was "probably the eldest son of George of Watertown."
President John Quincy Adams says the ten persons in Henry Adams's family for whom the land grant was made in 1640, were him-
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self, wife, daughter, and seven sons. An aged descendant has written that his ancestor John, of Cambridge, was a Scotchman. Numbers of Scotch settled in West Cambridge, and John's eldest daughter Rebecca married Nathaniel Patten, a Scotchman. That there was a John, brother of Thomas of Chelms- ford, would seem probable from the record; January 1, 1654, Thomas of Concord and wife Mary conveyed to Samuel Stratton two par- cels of land, including the house "lately called the house of John Adams." October 6, 1656, "John of Chelmsford" deeded to Samuel Stratton, of Concord, a dwelling house, etc., situated near Fair Haven, Massachusetts. No wife's signature appears to the deed. He (John) was "of Chelmsford" in 1656. Was he "John of Cambridge" whose wife was Anne, and whose children were born and bap- tized in Menotomy between 1650 and 1656? Thayer says John was in Chelmsford in 1654, after which he was not able to trace him.
John Adams, of Cambridge, was a mill- wright, and resided in Menotomy about 1650, with his wife Anne and his eldest daughter Rebecca, born in England. He was admitted a freeman in 1666. He made his will March 6, 1705-06, and died soon afterward at an advanced age. He mentions his wife Anne, sons John and Joseph, grandson William, granddaughters Martha Smith and Rebecca. His widow was living in October, 1714, when as executrix with her son "John of Sudbury," of the will of her husband, she deeded four acres to her grandson Joseph of Cambridge. Children : I. Rebecca, born in England ; married, November 24, 1669, Nathaniel Pat- ten ; died December 18, 1677. 2. Mary, born October 25, 1652; married John Eames, of Watertown; died April 3, 1681. 3. John, born in Menotomy, about 1654; died young. 4. John, born in Menotomy, May 1, 1655; married Hannah Bent ; second, Hannalı Stone. 5. Daniel, born August 8, 1657; died young. 6. Hannah, baptized June 17, 1660 ; died Jan- uary 25, 1661. 7. Daniel, born August 12, 1662; died May 14, 1685. 8. Joseph, mention- ed below.
(II) Joseph Adams, son of John Adams (I), born in Menotomy, 1664, died July 20, 1701. He received from his father, Septem- ber 4, 1697, a deed of the Adams homestead in Menotomy. His estate was administered by his widow, August 1, 1701. He married, Feb- ruary 21. 1687-88, Margaret Eames, born July 8, 1666, daughter of Thomas and Mary ( Blanchard) (Paddlefoot) Eames, of Sud-
bury. She married second, December 27, 1705, Lieutenant Daniel Dean of Concord. She was captured by the Indians February I, 1675-76, when her mother and some of the children were killed and their house at Fram- ingham burned. Children : I. Lieutenant Joseph, born 1688-89; mentioned below. 2. Abigail, born in Menotomy; married, April 4, 1705, John Robbins. 3. Captain Daniel, born in Menotomy, January 3, 1690; married first, April 23, 1715, Elizabeth Minot; second, October 30, 1765, Mrs. Hannah Benney ; died February 9, 1780. 4. Cherry, baptized Janu- ary 31, 1697; married first, November 17, 1712, Jonathan Stone; second, Thomas Well- ington ; third, August 9, 1763, Captain James Lane. 5. John, born April 16, 1698; married, December 13, 1722, Love, sister of Elizabeth Minot; died October 25, 1725, aged twenty- eight.
(III) Lieutenant Joseph Adams, son of Joseph Adams (2), born in Menotomy, 1688- 89, died there October 18, 1774, aged eighty- six. Was selectman and assessor of Cam- bridge five years between 1729 and 1738. He married first, January 18, 1710-1I, Rebecca Cutter, born January 18, 1692-93, died Janu- ary 12, 1717-18, daughter of William and Rebecca (Rolfe) Cutter, of Cambridge. He married second, June 26, 1718, Rachel Allen, who died a widow, August 1, 1775, aged eighty-five. Children of first wife, born in Menotomy: I. Thomas, born December 3, IZII; died November 17, 1713. 2. Captain Thomas, born August 20, 1713 ; married first, September 22, 1737, Anna Frost; second, Lydia Chadwick; third, September 15, 1754, Mrs. Elizabeth (Sanders) Bowman; com- manded a company in the Indian war; died November 9, 1802. 3. Deacon Joseph, born July 3, 1715; married first, January 20, 1740, Martha Frost; second, September 4 or II, 1750, Hannah Hall. 4. Margaret, born May 26, 1717; married, October 21, 1736, Elijah Doubleday. Children of second wife, born in Menotomy: 5. Rebecca, born September 12, 1720; married, November 27, 1740, Samuel Kent; died 1793. 6. Lucy, born October 29, 1722; married, May 21, 1745, John Cutter ; died April 17, 1810; no issue. 7. Captain William, born January 12, 1725; mentioned below. 8. Mary, born April 2, 1727; died young. 9. Anna, born July 8, 1729; married, April 19, 1750, Peter Tufts; died February 17, 1813. IO. Mary, born May 12, 1733; married first, June 6, 1751, Nathan Tufts ; sec-
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ond, November 25, 1777, Richard Clark, of Watertown.
(IV) Captain William Adams, son of Lieutenant Joseph Adams (3), was born in Menotomy, January 12, 1725. He was ensign of the precinct train band in 1771, and was a captain in the revolution, in Colonel That- cher's regiment, and marched to Dorchester Heights on Washington's order. He was selectman of West Cambridge, 1779. He died September 10, 1778, aged sixty-three. He married, June 14. 1750, Sarah Hill, died No- vember 11, 1805, aged seventy-four years. Children, all born in Menotomy : I. Deacon John. born July 21, 1751; mentioned below. 2. William, born December 12, 1753; married, June 26, 1781, Hannah Stone; died July 9, 1820. 3. Sarah, born April 10, 1756; married, October 19, 1773, James Perry, Jr. ; died July 19, 1780. 4. Lucy, born September 7, 1758; married, February 4, 1777, John Cutter ; died November 9, 1830. 5. Anna, born March 2, 1761 ; married first, March or April 25, 1781, Richard Ilay; second. Kendall Bailey. 6. Rebecca, born June 10, 1764; married, March 6, 1783, James Russell. 7. Lydia, born Sep- tember 2, 1767; married first, May 9, 1786, Edward Russell; second, July 20, 1809, James Cutter ; died August 25, 1818. 8. Margaret, born November 12, 1769; married. November 25, 1788, Thomas Russell. 9. Mary, born July 7, 1772; married, March 8, 1795, Nathan- iel Russell. Io. Susanna, born April 10, 1778 ; married, June 7, 1804, George Printice, Jr. ; died June 29, 1860.
(V) Deacon John Adams, son of Captain William Adams (4), born in Menotomy, July 21, 1751. died March 31, 1819. He was chosen deacon at Menotomy, April 19, 1792; was selectman of Cambridge seven years, between 1781 and 1795 ; a member of the precinct com- mittee, 1792-93, 1802. 1805 ; assessor of pre- cinct, 1792-93-95, 1801, 1807. He married first, December 22-24, 1773, Ruth Perry, died July 22, 1751 ; married second, November 18, 1777, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Gard- ner. She died April 20, 1785, and he married third, July 26, 1786, Hannah Phelps, who died December 16, 1854, aged ninety-three years. Children of first wife: I. John, Jr., born June 7, 1774; mentioned below. 2. James, born May 17, 1776; died August, 1776. Children of second wife: 3. James, born July 28, 1778; died December 16, 1818. 4. Betsey, born February 24, 1780; married, September 13, 1799, David Hill; died August 11, 1866. 5. Joseph, born April 15, 1782; married first,
February 12, 1809, Elizabeth Butterfield; sec- ond, December 5, 1811, Sybil Chamberlain ( Brown) Sanderson ; died December 10, 1819. 6. Sarah, born April, 1785; married, January 31, 1808, Thomas Fillebrown; died October 24, 1877. Children of third wife: 7. Wil- liam, born January, 1789; married, September 17, 1818, Sukey Foster : died March 27, 1827. 8. Samuel, born September 28, 1790; married, May 26, 1822, Anne Whittemore; died Sep- tember 5, 1856. 9. Amos, born August, 1792 ; died September 29, 1794. 10. Hannah, born 1795; died young. 11. Lydia, born No- vember 9, 1797; married, August 27, 1818, Endor Esterbrook; died February 23, 1866. 12. Hannah, born September 25, 1799; died October 13, 1821. 13. Amos, born November 16, 1804; married, June 25, 1834, Rebecca Whittemore ; died May 1, 1889.
(VI) John Adams, Jr., son of Deacon John Adams (5), born in West Cambridge, June 7. 1774 ; married, April 5. 1798, Susanna Cut- ter, born October 27, 1774, daughter of Ger- shom Cutter. He settled in North Andover, Massachusetts. Children, born in North Andover : 1. Susanna, born November 13, 1799: married, April 1, 1823, Samuel G. Fur- ber ; (lied August 1, 1880. 2. Amos, born May 24, 1801 : died April 25, 1808. 3. John, born February 26, 1803; mentioned below. 4. Louisa, born December 30, 1804; married, June 20, 1825 or 1827, George Bradley ; died March 3, 1839. 5. Harriet, born October 28, 1806-07 : married, April 30, 1835. Daniel Rea, Jr. ; died July 15, 1866. 6. Maria, born Feb- ruary, 1809: died unmarried, March 1, 1875. 7. Eveline, born September 24, 1811; died February 19, 1819. 8. Letitia, born October 29, 1814; married, April 16, 1834, Orlando Abbott, Jr .; died September 12, 1838. 9. Amos, born September 13, 1816; married, 1842, Caroline Bradley; died November 7, 1854; resided at Woburn. 10. James, born December 26 (9?), 1819; married, 1844, Helen Marr Usher ; was a manufacturer of per fumery, and died June 23, 1850; resided at Winchester, Massachusetts. (See Cutter).
(VII) John Adams, son of John Adams (6), born in North Andover, February 26, 1803, died February 10, 1875; married, Janu- ary 16, 1827, Eliza A. Stevens, born April 21, 1807, died in North Andover. He resided at North Andover, where all his children were born. Children: 1. George, born April I, 1827 ; married, February 16, 1853, Harriet E. Smith, of Exeter, New Hampshire, died June 23, 1896; he died in Jersey City, New Jersey,
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May 20, 1869 ; children : i. George Isaac, born January 14, 1854, died 1860; ii. Harriet E., born July 22, 1856, died 1859; iii. John D., born January 9, 1859, married, 1884, Mary Kinney, and had Edith May, born May 28, 1891, and George Randolph, born March 15, 1893, resides in Chicago, Illinois; iv. Charles Françis, born November 18, 1861 ; v. William Lincoln, born July 12, 1864, married, 1880, Stella ,and resides in Chicago, and had Merl E. born August 4, 1883, and Jettie E., born March 29, 1885, deceased ; vi. Evangeline S., born February 8, 1868. 2. Ellen M., born April 27, 1828; married, July 2, 1857, George E. Dascomb (as his second wife) and died in Cleveland, Ohio, July 26, 1858. 3. Eliza A., born May 26, 1830; married, July 26, 1853, Albert Gould, of North Bridgeton, Maine, who died February 1, 1874. 4. Sarah M., born December 9, 1832; married, August 23, 1855, George E. Dascomb; died in Cleveland, Ohio, May 2, 1856. 5. John, born December 26. 1834: died January 8, 1858. 6. Susan Cutter, born March 15, 1837 ; died January 29, 1838. 7. Susan Cutter, born July 20, 1839; died May 3. 1890, unmarried. S. Charles, born April 23. 1842; died December 17, 1842. 9. Martha S., born September 16, 1843; mar- ried, November 28, 1867,. John C. Wells ; resides at North Bridgeton, Maine. 10. Frank, born July 1, 1844; died at North Bridgeton. II. Sarah J., born February 28, 1847. 12. Edward, mentioned below.
(VIII) Edward Adams, son of John Adams (7), was born at North Andover, April 19, 1850. He was educated in the public schools of his native town. In his youth he worked on the homestead helping his father, but began when a young man in his present business as contractor. From a modest be- ginning with a single team he has worked his business up to large proportions. He has made a specialty of road building, and has built many sections of state roads in Massa- chusetts. He owns two stone crushers and has an extensive outfit for heavy teaming. In the winter season his men and teams are em- ployed in lumbering, and he does a large bus- iness in timber and firewood. After making a success of his business he lost all his pro- perty twice through fire, and had to make a new start in life. He stands well in the bus- iness community, having an enviable reputa- tion for high-class and reliable work, for personal integrity and good judgment. He has invested in North Andover real estate to a large extent, owning twelve tenements
besides his homestead. He is a Republican, and has served the town for three years as street commissioner. He is a member of the Unitarian church of North Andover, and belongs to the Ancient Order of United Workmen and to the Village Improvement Society.
He married, October 5, 1875, Susan Under- wood Abbott, born June 12, 1857, at North Andover, daughter of Orlando and Charlotte (Stevens) Abbott. (See Abbott family). Children: I. George O., born at North Andover, December 26, 1877 ; chemist in state experimental laboratory and station, Law- rence ; married, June 23, 1901, Pearl F. Chase, born at Lawrence, December 24, 1876; child, Francis C., born August 5, 1904. 2. Char- lotte, born in North Andover, June 5, 1884 ; married Francis B. Gallagher, of North Andover.
(For preceding generations see Richard Cutter 2).
(III) Gershom Cutter, son of CUTTER Richard Cutter (2), born 1653, baptized at Cambridge, died April 2, 1738. He was executor of his father's will. He was a farmer at Menotomy, at the "Foot of the Rocks," and bought vari- ous parcels of land. He was admitted to the Cambridge church August 6, 1721. He was a soldier in King Philip's war, and probably took part in the Swamp fight. He married, March 6, 1677, Lydia, daughter of Thomas and Isabel Hall, of Cambridge. Children : I. Gershom, born June 1, 1679; mentioned below. 2. Lydia, born September 14, 1682; married Jonathan Hall, of Medford, born September 28, 1677. 3. Hannah, born No- vember 26, 1684; married, December 22, 1702, Thomas Hall; second, Abigail who died in 1745: third, 1747. Elizabeth Davis. 4. Isabel, born May 9, 1687 ; married, December 9, 1713, Thomas Fillebrown.
(IV) Gershom Cutter, son of Gershom Cutter (3), born June 1, 1679; married, June II, 1701, Mehitabel, daughter of George and Sarah (Farnum) Abbott, of Andover. She was born April 4. 1680, granddaughter of George Abbott, of Rowley; owned the cove- nant and was baptized May 10, 1702. He had the homestead "Under the Rocks" at Menot- omy. In 1747 he and Francis Lock were fined for walking from Cambridge to Newton to attend religious services, but they appealed to the court of sessions and the judgment was reversed. He died July 7, 1753, and his wife, March 28, 1757. Children: I. Thomas, born
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May 8, 1702, at Cambridge. 2. Gershom, born January 13, 1703, mentioned below. 3. George, born October 7, 1705; married Jane Butterfield. 4. Hannah, born December 29, 1707 ; married Thomas Emmons. 5. Mehita- ble, born October 9, 1709; married Ephraim Winship Jr. 6. Lydia, born August 23, 17II- 12; married John Whittemore. 7. Sarah, born 1714; baptized October 31. 8. Richard, baptized January 22, 1716-17. 9. Nehemiah, born 1717; married, July 17, 1739. Martha Bowman. 10. Isabel, baptized January 25, 1719-20; married Jonathan Winship, of Lex- ington. II. Aaron, baptized June 24, 1722; married Mary Moore, of Cambridge. 12. Thomas, baptized November 17, 1728.
(V) Gershom Cutter, son of Gershom Cut- ter (4), born January 13, 1703; baptized Jan- tary 23, 1703-04. He resided in Captain John Perry's old house "Under the Rocks," and died of jaundice, December 10, 1777. He mar- ried, February 13, 1728-29, Anna Fillebrown, born January 26, 1707-08, daughter of John and Saralı Fillebrown, of Cambridge. She became a member of the Cambridge church, April 11, 1725, and joined the Menotomy church at its founding, September 9, 1739. He was a miller by trade. Children : I. Thomas, born January 9, 1730-31 ; married, May 19, 1757, Hannah Whittemore. 2. Anna, born November 13, 1731; married February 1, 1753. Thomas Whittemore; died January 17, 1816. 3. Gershom, born February 19, 1733- 34; mentioned below. 4. James, born Janu- ary 31, 1735-36, in Menotomy: died July 16, 1738. 5. John, born September 26, 1737: married, January 24, 1765, Rebecca Hill ; died October 16, 1788. 6. Mehitable, born Febru- ary 6, 1739-40; died November 29, 1750. 7. James, born March 27-28, 1742 ; married, June IO, 1768, Catherine Benjamin ; died April 13, 1790. 8. Sarah, born September 27, 1744; married, July 20, 1762, Joshua Swan. 9. Eliz- abeth, born January 18-20, 1747-48; died No- vember 28, 1750. IO. Amos, born August 7, 1752; died December 21, 1753. II. Stephen, born April 26, 1759 ; married, October 8, 1776, Mary Meads ; died April 13, 1816.
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