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(V) Peter Shumway, son of Peter Shum- way (4), was born in Oxford, December 6, 1777, and died at Groton, Massachusetts, Oc- tober 25, 1873. He married March 8, 1803, Sarah Spaulding, born October 23, 1782, died at Oxford, May 20, 1842, daughter of Peter Spaulding, of Townshend. He married sec- ond, January 15, 1845, Mary (Newhall) Har- ris, widow of Rufus Harris. She was born at New Ipswich, June II, 1798, died at Gro- ton, Massachusetts, January 31, 1882. Shum- way removed to Townshend, Vermont, in early life, but returned to Oxford in 1818, and took the place of his brother Parley on the home- stead and cared for his parents. In 1841 he removed the old house and built the one now standing. When he left the Shumway farm it passed out of the possession of the descend- ants of Peter Shumway, the pioneer. His last years were spent with children in Groton. He was a thrifty farmer, of great industry, and large influence in the town. Children, born in Townshend, Vermont, and Oxford, Massachu- setts: I. Stephen, born March 3, 1804; mar- ried, 1832, Martha Holmes, and resided at Thompson, Connecticut, where he died Feb- ruary 8, 1849. 2. Nelson, born November 15, 1805; married Elizabeth Andrews; resided in Boston ; dealer in provisions ; he died October 28, 1867. 3. Mary, Heald, born August 23, 1807; died July 4, 1808. 4. Eliel, born Sep- tember 29, 1809; married October 2, 1833, Eliza Ball; resided in Groton, where she died December 1, 1894; married second, May, 1868, Emma S. Perry ; he died 1891. 5. Mary Heald, born November 14, 1811 ; married John C. Hurd, son of Deacon John. 6. Nancy Spaulding, born March 31, 1814; married Au- gust 13, 1850, Walter P. Rockwood; second, Ephraim Sawtelle, of Groton. 7. Benjamin Spaulding, born January II, 1816; married November 3, 1847, Caroline E. Bacon. 8. Zerviah Leavens, born December 12, 1817; married October 20, 1845, Rev. William Walker. 9. Peter, born December 20, 1822; died October 21, 1824. IO. Peter (changed by law to Franklin Peter), born December 8, 1824; mentioned below.
(VI) Franklin Peter Shumway, son of Peter Shumway (5), was born at Oxford, December 8, 1824. He married in Boston, October 30, 1848, Lucy H. Howe, who was born in Boston, May 14, 1828. They resided
in Oxford, Auburndale and Leominster, Mass- achusetts, removing thence to New York City. He returned to Massachusetts. Children: I. Emma Florence, born July 26, 1849; married George H. Merritt, of Mattapan, Massachu- setts, February 16, 1871. 2. Mary Heald, born November 13, 1852; married Leonard S. Leighton, of Boston, April 17, 1878; he died March 28, 1900. 3. Lucy, born April 17, 1855 ; died December 9, 1855. 4. Franklin Peter, born October 23, 1856; mentioned below. 5. Charles Howard, born February 19, 1858; died September 26, 1858. 6. Carrie Louise, born April 23, 1859 ; married October 4, 1893, Alfred P. Sewall.
(VII) Franklin Peter Shumway, son of Franklin Peter Shumway (6), was born at Auburndale, in the town of Newton, Massa- chusetts, October 23, 1856. He was educated in the public and high schools. He has been in the advertising business, and ranks among the foremost in his profession in New Eng- land. He is at present the head of the Frank- lin P. Shumway Advertising Company of Boston, one of the largest concerns of its kind. He has the management of the advertising and the making of contracts with newspapers, magazines, and other advertising mediums for many clients, among whom are some of the largest advertisers in this section. He stands high in the business and financial circles of Boston and among his fellow-citizens of Mel- rose, where he has resided many years. Of attractive personality and extensive know- ledge of men and affairs, he makes many friends in social and business life.
He married, September 22, 1880, Lizzie A. Elliott, of Portland, Maine, daughter of John M. Elliott, of that city. Children : I. Willis Peter. 2. Carl Elliott.
(For first two generations see Peter Shumway 2).
(III) Samuel Shumway, son
SHUMWAY of Peter Shumway (2), was born at Boxford, Mass- achusetts, March 6, 17II, and baptized there April 22, 17II. He died in Sturbridge, Mass- achusetts, September 1 or 2, 1800. His will is dated May 20, 1786; filed September 19, 1800, bequeathing to one son and four daugh- ters-Abijah, Sarah, Lucy, Lois and Pru- dence. He and his brother David settled in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, when young men ; their brother Jeremiah in the adjacent town of Oxford, also Worchester county. He married, February 19, 1735-36, Sarah Learned, who
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died at Sturbridge, December 26, 1809, at the advanced age of ninety-three, daughter of Isaac Learned, of Oxford, Massachusetts. Children, born at Sturbridge: I. Sarah, born April 9, 1737, married, June 12, 1758, Daniel Faulkner, of Sturbridge. 2. Abijah, born January 2, 1738-39, mentioned below. 3. Lusa (Lucy), born January 21, 1740-I, mar- ried, March 6, 1760, Moses Clark, Jr. 4. Lois, born October 22, 1743, married, Feb- ruary 16, 1786, John Hill. 5. Prudence, born February 26, 1745-6, married, March 27, 1771, William Blanchard. 6. Samuel, born June 10, 1748, died February II, 1757. 7. Hannah, born October II, 1750, died February 2, 1757. 8. Moses (twin), born 1753, baptized March 25, 1753. 9. Aaron (twin), baptized March 25, 1753, died February 6, 1757. 10. Miriam, born October 8, 1755, died February 4, 1757.
(IV) Captain Abijah Shumway, son of Samuel Shumway (3), was born in Stur- bridge, Massachusetts, January 2, 1738-39, died there July 25, 1808, aged seventy. His will is dated July 12, 1808, bequeathing to his five children. He married, June 25, 1783, Lucy Weld, at Sturbridge. He was a soldier in the Revolution, a sergeant in Captain William Campbell's company, Colonel Ebe- nezer Learned's regiment, in 1775, at Rox- bury ; also in Captain Ebenezer Crafts's com- pany, Colonel Learned's regiment, later in the year. He is called captain in the records later. Children, born at Sturbridge: I. Abijah, Jr., born June 27, 1784. 2. Samuel, born April 2, 1786, mentioned below. 3. Lucy, born May 24, 1789. 4. Esther, born January 19, 1792. 5. Nancy, born January 18, 1809.
(V) Samuel Shumway, son of Captain Abijah Shumway (4), was born April 2, 1786, in Sturbridge. He was a farmer and lived all his life in Sturbridge. He married Oral Mckinstry, of Sturbridge, rather late in life, and while they were the parents of seven children, only one survived infancy: Ellen Augusta, born July 8, 1853, mentioned below. (VI) Ellen Augusta Shumway, daughter of Samuel Shumway (5), was born in Stur- bridge, Massachusetts, July 8, 1853. She was educated in the public schools of Sturbridge. In 1873 she went to Lowell and May 15, 1874, she married Austin Metcalf Wentworth, who was born in Hope, Maine, September 17, 1850. Mr. Wentworth is a contractor and builder in Lowell, Massachusetts, and a very success- ful business man. Mr. and Mrs. Wentworth attend the Baptist church. They have no children.
Four generations of the Cayzer CAYZER family of the line here treated have lived in America. William Cayzer, the progenitor of the family in New England, was of English birth and ancestry, a practical hatter by trade, and lived at St. Colomb, Cornwall, England. In 1849 he left England with his wife, whose name before marriage was Mary Edwards (she was a na- tive of Llangothllan, Wales), and their son John Edward and their daughters Sarah and Mary, in a sailing vessel and in due season landed in Boston. When they came to Ameri- ca both William Cayzer and his wife Mary were past the middle period of life, and al- though previous to his immigration William Cayzer had always been an industrious, hard- working man at his trade, he lived a retired life in Massachusetts and afterward in Man- chester, New Hampshire, and died in the city last mentioned in 1859, his wife Mary having died there in 1856.
John Edward Cayzer, son of William Cay- zer, was born at St. Colomb, Cornwall, Eng- land, October 24, 1823, and died at his home in Somerville, Massachusetts, February 27, 1893. While living in England he had learned the trade of his father, serving an apprentice- ship of seven years, and when he came to Boston he established himself in the hatter's business in that city. After a time his health became broken and he thereupon removed to the state of Maine and took a farm in the town of Cumberland. He lived there seven years, regained his health and at the end of that time returned to Boston and resumed his former business. In 1870 he located at Somerville and lived in that city until the time of his death in 1893. He was a successful and capable business man, a Republican, but not active in politics, and a Master Mason. In England he had been brought up under the influences of the Episcopal church, but after coming to New England became a Unitarian. His wife, whom he married January 16, 1855, was Mary Elizabeth Ricker, who was born in Lebanon, Maine, March 17, 1834, daughter of Ebenezer Ricker and Naomi Sherman his wife, a granddaughter of Ezekiel Ricker and Mary Hanson his wife, and a descendant on both the paternal and maternal sides of some of the best old New England Colonial stock. She was educated in town schools of Sanford, Maine, and the high school at Milton, New Hampshire. Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Cayzer.
Alfred L. Cayzer, the elder of their two
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sons, was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, May 1, 1858, and received his education in the Somerville grammar and high schools. After leaving school he was employed for a time by the New England Glass Company, but later went to Chicago, Illinois, and became bookkeeper in a commission house of which his uncle was proprietor. June, 1881, he married Nellie P. Foster, of Brooklyn, New York, and took up his residence at Evanston, a suburb of Chicago, where he now lives. Mr. and Mrs. Cayzer have two children. Their elder child, Edith M. Cayzer, was born at Evanston, September 3, 1882, and was edu- cated in grammar and high schools of Evans- ton and St. Mary's school and the Chicago Art school, having graduated from the latter in- stitution. Their second child, Louise F. Cay- zer, was born at Evanston, April 18, 1887, and was educated in the grammar and high schools of that city and also at Rogers Hall in Lowell, Massachusetts.
John Edward Cayzer, younger of the two children of John Edward Cayzer and Mary E. Ricker, his wife, was born in Cumberland, Maine, July 22, 1862, and died May i, 1864.
Ebenezer Ricker, whose daughter Mary E. married John Edward Cayzer, of which men- tion is made in a preceding paragraph, was a son of Ezekiel Ricker and his wife Mary Han- son, and a descendant of one of the oldest and most prominent families of New Hampshire and Maine. The early history of the progeni- tors of the Ricker families now so well scat- tered throughout New England and other states of the Union is filled with incidents of thrilling interest and is recorded in genealogi- cal archives and various manuscripts as fol- lows :
Two brothers, George and Maturin Ricker, came from England to Dover, New Hampshire. George appeared there in 1670 and was first taxed in Cocheco in 1672. Tradition in the family says that he came over with old Parson Reyner, and at his expense; and that after repaying the parson his next earnings went to get his younger brother, Maturin, over. Ma- turin was not taxed in 1672, and the lists for the next year appear to have been lost. But as to the Reyner matter the difficulty is that the parson came over in 1635 and died early in 1669. However, he owned landed property in England, and perhaps this tradition may give a clue as to the place from which George Ricker came.
George Ricker settled in what is now Roll- ingsford, near the Wentworth property, and
in fact he and John Wentworth traded some- what in land. Maturin Ricker must have lived in the same neighborhood, and both he and his brother were killed by the Indians June 4, 1706. The orginal journal of the Rev. John Pike, minister at Dover, which is to be found in the library of the Massachu- setts Historical Society, says, under date of June 4, 1706: "George Riccar and Maturin Riccar, of Cocheco, were slain by the Indians ; George was killed while running up the lane by the garrison; Maturin was killed in his field, and his little son (Noah) carried away." The garrison was Heard's, which stood in the garden of the late Friend Bangs.
George Ricker married Eleanor Evans, whose father had been killed by the Indians and doubtless was the "Mr. Evans" whom Pike mentions as having been killed in the massacre, in a time of profound peace. It is said that the Indians chained Mr. Evans to a barn and then set fire to the building, burning their victim with it. By his wife Eleanor George Ricker had nine children: Judith, John, Mary, Maturin, Elizabeth, Hannah, Ephraim, Eleanor and George.
Maturin Ricker, younger brother of George Ricker, the immigrant, married and had at least four children. The name of his wife and dates of birth of their children are not known, but their names were Maturin, Joseph, Noah and Sarah, the latter being about four years old when her father was killed.
Naomi Sherman, who married Ebenezer Ricker, father of Mary E. who became the wife of John Edward Cayzer, was a daughter of Thomas Sherman who married Betsey Keith. Thomas Sherman was a son of An- thony Sherman, grandson of William Sher- man, great grandson of William Sherman, and great-great-grandson of William Sherman, the Pilgrim, who was in Plymouth as early as 1632, but finally settled in Marshfield, Massa- chusetts. William Sherman, the Pilgrim, married, in 1639, Prudence Hill, and had a son William, Jr., who married, in 1667, De- sire Doty, daughter of Edward Doty (in some records written Doten) and Faith Clark his wife. This Edward Doty was a "Mayflower" Pilgrim. Ebenezer and Naomi (Sherman) Ricker had eleven children, ten of whom lived to manhood and womanhood : Joseph S .. in early life learned the trade of tanner ; later was a banker and railroad man, serving as one of the directors of the Maine Central Rail- road and others ; he was offered the presidency of the Maine Central, but declined. For
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twenty years he was associated with a Mr. Mosly, of Montreal, under the firm name of Mosly & Ricker, in the leather trade. Gus- tavus, was a merchant in Cincinnati, Ohio, and later owned and operated a marble quarry in Maine; died in Washington, D. C., where he resided. Dorcas. Winslow T., was a wealthy tanner. Freeman F., went to Cali- fornia in 1849, remaining eight years; he fin- ally settled in Kansas. Sherman A., after a residence in California and the west settled in Chicago; he was first engaged in the packing business, and later the grain business, and was styled the corn king of the grain centre. Mary E., (Mrs. Cayzer). Elizabeth K. William A., from the age of sixteen until his death at the age of fifty was an invalid. Ebenezer Ricker, father of these children, died May I, 1859; his wife, Naomi (Sherman) Ricker, died at the age of sixty-five.
William Sherman and his wife Desire Doty had a son William, born in 1671, who married, in 1697, Mercy White, daughter of Peregrine White and Sarah Bassett his wife. This Pere- grine White, born in Provincetown harbor in 1620, was a son of William White and his wife Anna (sometimes called Susanna) Ful- ler. This Anna Fuller, after the death of her first husband, William White, in 1621, married Edward Winslow, governor of the Plymouth colony, and died in Marshfield, Massachusetts, in 1680. It appears, according to Davis's "Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth," that Thomas Sherman, Sr., was a descendant of Edward Doty, William White and Susanna Fuller of the "Mayflower," and also of William Bassett, whose daughter Sarah mar- ried Peregrine White and who came over in the "Fortune" in 1621.
Thomas Sherman, Sr., son of Anthony Sherman and Silence Ford his wife, of East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, was born in Rochester, Massachusetts, April 18, 1754. He was a master mariner in early life. On Sep- tember 20, 1776, he enlisted as a private in Captain Abram Washburn's company of Colonel John Cushing's regiment, and served two months, being stationed at Newport, Rhode Island. He married Betsey Keith, daughter of Daniel Keith and Lydia Keyzer his wife, granddaughter of John Keith and Hannah Washburn his wife, and great-grand- daughter of Rev. James Keith and Susanna Edson his wife, all of Bridgewater, Massa- chusetts. Rev. James Keith was a native of Scotland, educated at Aberdeen, and became the first minister at Bridgewater in 1664, hav-
ing come to New England two years earlier. Betsey Keith was born January 1, 1763, and died December 4, 1841, aged seventy-nine years.
Thomas Sherman, Sr., lived in Brookfield, Massachusetts, in 1782, and removed from there to East Bridgewater, residing there from about 1785 to about 1794. He then removed to Tamworth, New Hampshire, and lived there until about 1811, thence to Shapleigh (now Acton), Maine, and about the year 1814 took up his residence on a border farm be- tween" Lebanon and Acton. Here he died February 2, 1846, at the age of ninety-two years. Both he and his wife became members of the Orthodox church at Lebanon in . 1824. Thomas Sherman and Betsey Keith, his wife, had eleven children : Anthony, born Brook- field, Massachusetts, December 7, 1782. Dan- iel, born East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, January 7, 1785. Thomas, Jr., born East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, March 30, 1787. Joseph Keith, born East Bridgewater, Mass- achusetts, December 12, 1789. Nathan, born East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, July 7, 1792, died July 17, 1793. Nathan, 2d, born East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, May II, 1794. Lydia, born Tamworth, New Hamp- shire, December 3, 1796. Naomi, born Tam- worth, May 1, 1799, married Ezekiel Ricker. Betsey, born Tamworth, May 8, 1802. Han- nah, born Tamworth, October 17, 1806, mar- ried Henry T. Morrill. Martin, born Tam- worth, May 20, 1810.
John Cutting (I), appeared in CUTTING Watertown, Massachusetts Bay Colony, before 1636, but his name does not appear on the list of inhab- itants who took the freeman's oath before 1640. In the earliest list of the inhabitants of Watertown, dated July 25, 1636, is desig- nated "a grant of the Great Dividends (allot- ted) to the freemen (and) to all the towns- men then inhabiting, being 120 in number." Sir Richard Saltonstall heads this list, his al- lotment being one hundred acres, Robert Feake and three others with eighty acres; and the seventeenth on the list is John Cutting with sixty acres. This record places him among the most important of the land holders of that period. The next record we find of John Cutting in Watertown is that he was a soldier in the Narragansett expedition of 1675, and before enlisting were promised by the general court an allotment of land for such
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service as they were asked to perform in de- fense of the colonists threatened to be exter- minated by the Indians. Through their law- ful representatives these soldiers petitioned the general court in 1727 for the land thus promised, and their petition was granted. The Watertown men were assigned a portion of the plantation called Narragansett No. 2, which became the district of Westminster, October 20, 1754, and a town April 26, 1770. Among the names appear John Cutting, for his father, John Cutting, and James Cutting for his father, James Cutting. This gave us four of the name Cutting in Watertown among the settlers before 1636, and fixes the date of settlement of John to be 1636, and James as his probable brother. Willard Cut- ting, the third of the name, came on the ship with a Richard Cutting. He was a youth of eleven years, and occupying some position (ward or servant) in the family of Henry Kimball, as he was a passenger with them on the ship "Elizabeth of Ipswich," April 30, 1634, and lived with them in Watertown. This gives us "four brothers" or possibly three brothers with Richard (as he was a lad) as the son of one of them. In the next genera- tion we also have John, and James the son of James, as residing in Watertown, and of Rich- ard as being made a freeman April 18, 1690. He was, however, a purchaser of land on Jan- uary 16, 1646-7. There is a Captain John Cutting who appears in Newbury, Massachu- setts Bay Colony, in 1638, where he was a proprietor and town officer. He, or another John Cutting, purchased a house in Charles- town in 1648, and was master of the ship "Advent," and made many voyages between England and New England, and died in New- bury in 1659. As this date was before the ser- vice of John of Watertown in the Narragan- sett expedition, for which service his son John received the grant of land in the Narragansett plantation, it places John the soldier as the possible father of Richard, and first ancestor of the Cuttings in America, rather than John the sailor. This would give Richard as of the second generation and John, James and Wil- liam each some claim of being of the first generation.
(II) Richard Cutting, born in England, in 1623. came to Ipswich, Massachusetts, on the ship "Elizabeth of Ipswich," with Henry Kim- ball and William Cutting in 1634. He appears to have had a claim of obligation or relation- ship to Henry Kimball (who acquired by allotment fifty acres of land in Watertown in
1636), as he lived in his family in Watertown up to the time he purchased a home in Water- town in January, 1646-7. He was by trade a wheelwright, but evidently also a farmer, as Henry Kimball was a large landholder. He did not take the freeman's oath until April 18, 1690, at which time he was sixty-seven years of age, unless there is an error as to the time of his birth. His wife Sarah died No- vember 4, 1685, in the sixtieth year of her age, and he died at his home in Watertown, March 21, 1695-6. They had six children : James, John, Susanna, Sarah, Lydia, Zach- ariah. These names are not arranged in the order of birth.
(III) John Cutting, son of Richard and Sarah Cutting, was born in Watertown. He married Susanna Harrington, February 9, 1671-2. His children, seven in number, were born in Watertown. They were in the order of their birth: Susan, Sarah, Mary, Eliza- beth, John, Robert and George.
(IV) Robert Cutting, son of John and Su- sanna (Harrington) Cutting, was born in Watertown, October 15, 1683; married, Janu- ary 20, 1714, Abigail Sawin; lived in East Sudbury, where their children, Robert, Sarah, Samuel, Isaac, Jerusha and Silence, were born.
(V) Samuel Cutting, son of Robert and Abigail (Sawin) Cutting, was born in Way- land, November 20, 1720. He married Eu- nice Moore, April 22, 1742. They had five children, born in Wayland: Samuel, Robert, Jonathan, Eunice and Susanna.
(VI) Robert Cutting, second son of Sam- uel and Eunice (Moore) Cutting, was born April 16, 1744, in Wayland. He was sergeant on Lexington alarm roll of Captain Joseph Smith's company, Colonel Barrett's regiment, which marched on alarm of April 19, 1775. from Sudbury. On January 9, 1778, he was commissioned captain in Ninth Company, Fourth Middlesex County Regiment. He was also captain in Colonel McIntosh's regi- ment, General Lovell's brigade, engaged Aug- ust 1, 1778, discharged September 13, 1778. He was a deacon in the town church for many years. He married Jerusha Curtis, August 6, 1767. They had three children: Robert, Jer- usha and Ephraim. He died January 21, 1820, and was buried in the old cemetery, Wayland.
(VII) Ephraim Cutting, son of Robert and Jerusha (Curtis) Cutting, was born August 27, 1774, in East Sudbury. He lived in Sud- bury, Roxbury, and the latter portion of his
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life in Weston, coming there about 1830, and had children, including George Warren Cut- ting. He died April 7, 1866, at the age of ninety-three years.
(VIII) George Warren Cutting, son of Ephraim Cutting, was born in Roxbury, Mass- achusetts. He removed with his parents to Weston about 1830, and established a general country store in that town in 1833, and the same business site has continued in the family as a country store. He was postmaster from 1859 to the time of his death, in 1885.
(IX) George Warren Cutting, Jr., son of George Warren, was born in Weston, in 1834, and was brought up to the trade of pattern maker, but gave up this occupation to join his father in conducting the store in Weston, which he had established in 1833. He was married, February 21, 1865, to Josephine M. daughter of George W. Brown, of Harvard, Massachusetts. He is a member of the Bap- tist church, a trustee for the Merriam Fund for the Silent Poor, served as assessor for sev- eral years, and was a representative in the general court of Massachusetts, in 1889, served as public weigher and measurer of wood and bark for many years. He has been town clerk since 1864, and assistant postmas- ter from 1859 to 1886, postmaster of Weston since 1886. He is a Republican in national politics, and generally votes for the nominees of that party for town, county and state offi- cers.
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