the following vote, viz.: Voted to improve the estate of Zacheus Cutler, Esq. Voted, their committee of safety be a committee to improve said estate. Voted, the manner of improving said estate be left discretionary with said committee. Voted, said committee pay the profits arising on said improvement to him or them whose right it may be to make a demand therefor." By an act of the General Court passed November 19, 1778, he with seventy-six others, among whom were many of the leading men of the Province, were forbidden to return to the State, without permission by a special act from the General Court. His estate was confiscated; in the inventory taken July 4, 1780, is mentioned sixty acres of land in Amherst, near Nathan Jones, fourteen acres near the Court House, on which was a house and barn, another lot with small dwelling house and barn, shop, tan-yard, mill-house, curry-house and a hatter's shop, pew in the meeting-house, and notes to the amount of £423, 19s, 1d; also said Cutler's books of accounts kept in his shop in New Boston. June 6, 1781, the State Treasurer received from the sale of his estate, in continental bills, £3523, 17s, and a further sum of specie and certificates to the amount of £1369, 2s, lid.

Ebenezer Cutler settled in the town of Oxford, Mass., as

an inn keeper and trader. He married (1) Miriam Eager, sister of his brother Zacheus' wife, and daughter of James Eager of Westboro, Mass., November 24, 1764. Mrs. Cutler was a sister of Col. Eager, who was a loyalist and settled in Victory, N. S. His name appears often in the transfers of real estate in Oxford, the first being of Ebenezer Cutler, a trader, to Joseph Bowman of Oxford, in 1765, his wife Miriam signing the deed, also to Jonathan and John Amory of Boston in 1766. In 1767, he sold one moiety of a potash house, kettle and appurtenances to William Carter. He became a loyalist and at the time of his arrest was a trader at Northboro. May, 1775, the committee of correspondence made charges against him

and sent him, with evidence of his misconduct to Gen. Ward at Cambridge. The case was submitted to Congress, when it appeared that he had "spoken many things disrespectful of the Continental and Provincial Congress ;" that he had "acted against their resolves;" said that "he would assist Gage," etc., etc. A resolve to commit him to prison was refused passage. A resolve that he be allowed to join the British troops at Boston was lost likewise. "He had formerly lived at Groton." (Sabin1s Loyalists.) In 1776, he went with the British army to Halifax. He was proscribed and banished in 1778, settled in Nova Scotia, and was prothonotary of the County of Annapolis. He was a zealous Episcopalian. It is related of him that on seeing his cow drinking from a stream passing under a Methodist meeting-house, "he beat her severely for her apostacy from the true faith." His property was confiscated and inventoried, April 5, 1779; August 3, the Judge appointed commissioners to settle his estate. His first wife, Miriam, died at Northboro, Mass., and her estate was inventoried September 10, 1784, amounting to £100. He married (2), in London, England, Mary, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Hicks of the 70th Regiment. She died at Annapolis Royal, in 1839; he died in 1831. By his first wife, Miriam, he had children, born at Oxford: (T. R.)

2,

i. Ebenezer, b. Aug. 27, 1765; d., 1839.

ii. Jonas, b. May 21, 1767; was unm. and drowned.

iii. Aratheusa, b. May 21, 1769; m. Phineas, son of Colonel Millege of Granville, N. S.

iv. William, was unm. and drowned.

v. Seraphina, b. Dec., 1772; m. Peleg, son of Rev. John Wiswall, rector of parish church of Wilmot, N. S., and formerly chaplain in the British Navy.

vi. Rufus, b. Dec., 1778; was unm. and drowned.

vii. Mary. (The town records of Oxford do not give the births of William and Mary.)

viii. Hasadiah, b. Aug. 1776; named for her aunt, the wife of Zacheus Cutler; m. John Wiswall of Annapolis, also

was a son of Rev. John Wiswall. By his second wife, at Anapolis, N. S., he had: Mary Ann Newbury Wiswall, Eliza Hicks Wiswall, Miriam Louisa Wiswall, Susanna Ford Wiswall, Edward Hicks Wiswall, Charles Wiswall, and William Jonas Wiswall—named for his first wife's brothers, who were drowned.

2. EBENEZER CUTLER (Ebenezer1) was born at Oxford, Mass., August 27, 1765. He accompanied his father to Nova Scotia, or joined him soon after his settlement there. Here he resided for several years, but settled at New Brunswick, where he married Miss Dickinson, and died in 1839. Children:

i. Jonas. ii. Rufus.

iii. Lavinia. iv. Seraph.

v. Abigail. vi. Olivia, vii. Robert.

3. viii. James Eager, b., 1812.

ix. Mary. x. Rebecca.

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3. JAMES EAGER CUTLER (Ebenezer, Ebenezer1) was born in 1812, in New Brunswick, and named for his great-grandfather, James Eager of Westboro, Mass. He married Sarah Hartshorne, a granddaughter of Thomas Cutler of Guysboro, N. S.; she died June 24, 1885, aged fifty-three. Mr. Cutler is a commission merchant in Boston. He states that his great-grandfather. Ebenezer Cutler, whose property was confiscated at Westboro, and Mrs. Cutler's great-grandfather, Thomas Cutler, both Loyalists, who fled to and settled in Nova Scotia, claimed their relationship as fourth cousins, thus verifying the old tradition that James of Watertown and John of Hingham were brothChildren:

ers.

i. HARRIET, b. in 1850.

ii. Mary, b. in 1851; m. William P. Faulkner.

iii. Sarah, b. in 1852; m. F. H. Morgan.

iv. Eliza, b. in 1854; m. William D. Hartshorne.

v. Edward, b. in 1856; engaged with his father in Boston.

vi. Miriam, b. in 1859; named for her great-grandmother,

Miriam Eager.

vii. Caroline, b. in 1860.

viii. William James, b. in 1863; clerk with his father.

JOHN CUTLER, FROM HOLLAND, AND HIS DESCENDANTS.

1. John1 Cutler, chirurgeon, from Holland, appears first upon records in Hingham, in 1674, as Johannes De Mesmaker. January 4, 1674-5, he adopted the translation of his name, "which they say in English is John Cutler," and as John Cutler, married Mary, daughter of Edward Cowell of Boston. He served as chirurgeon in King Philip's War, probably as chief surgeon. About 1694, he settled in Boston, and built a splendid three story house on what is now Washington Street. Dr. Cutler died intestate and his widow Mary acted as administratrix, February 17, 1717. His estate inventoried £5740 15s. April 24, 1718, she was appointed guardian to her daughter Abigail, aged seventeen; she died about one year after, when her sons John and Peter were appointed to complete the administration on their father's estate, and John to be guardian of his sister Abigail. Children:

2.

i. John, b. Aug. 6, 1676, at Hingham, is supposed to have
been sent to Europe for his education. He inherited
the practice and house of his father. Sept. 7, 1714, he
was appointed to administer on the estate of Anthony
Haywood, husband of his sister Hannah. Aug. 21,
1716, he m. Mrs. Joanna Dodd Richards (an affluent
widow, with 2 daus.), who d., a. 73, and was buried at
King's Chapel, May 2, 1758. Dr. Cutler had no ch.,
but adopted (1) his nephew John Cutler, son of Pe-
ter, who d. unm., and (2) John Cutler, son of his broth-
er David, who cared for him in his old age.
He d., a.
85, and was interred at King's Chapel, Sept. 28, 1761.

ii. Peter, b. July 7, 1679, a DeMesmaker; bapt. a Cutler.
iii. Mary, b. July 24, 1682: m., April 24, 1715, Capt. John
Braudick of Long Island. Had ch.

iv. Hannah, b. June 4, 1685; m. Anthony Haywood, Jr.,

a mariner, who d. in 1714.

V. ABIGAIL, b. Nov. 1, 1687; d. May 31, 1688.

3. vi. David, b. Nov. 1, 1689, at Hingham.

vii. Ruth, b. Feb. 22, 1691-2, at Hingham; m., June 2, 1715, Dr. George Stewart of Boston; had 3 ch.

viii. Eliza, b. Sept. 7, 1695, at Boston; d. young.

ix. Abigail, b. May 30, 1699, at Boston; m., June 4, 1725, Jacob "Cailloway," a merchant of Great Britain; res. in London.

2. PETER CUTLER (John1) was born July 7, 1679, and graduated at Harvard in 1698. He settled in Boston as a "shop-keeper," or merchant, and died on an island in Boston Harbor, in 1720. He and his brother John owned a farm in Rutland, which they received as heirs of their father, who probably derived it by grant from the General Court, for services in the Narragansett War. He married Ruth, who died before him. Children:

i. John, was adopted by his uncle John. On going to sea, Dec. 16, 1741, he made his will, giving all his estate to his uncle John; he d. unm.. in 1743.

ii. Elizabeth, alias Betty, b. Oct. 22, 1707; m. Rev. Isaac Brown of Brook Haven, L. I.; had 6 ch.

iii. Mary, b. Dec. 20, 1708; m. Benj. Fanueil, Esq.; d. Oct., 1777; had 3 ch.

iv. Peter, was living Jan., 1748.

v. Katherine, d. young.

3. DAVID CUTLER (John1) was born November 1, 1689. He settled in Boston as a mariner, lost all his real estate, and died probably abroad, intestate, in 1730. He married Ann Millar (?), who died February 19, 1777, and was buried at Trinity Church. Children:

4.

i. "Ann," alias "Nancy," b., 1718; bapt. at King's Chapel, Nov. 8, 1723; Sept. 27, 1810, she was buried at Trinity Church; unm., a. 92.

ii. John, bapt. Aug. 22, 1725.

iii. Mary, bapt. Feb. 19, 1726-7; d. before 1730.

4. JOHN CUTLER (David, John1) was baptized August 22, 1725. He was adopted by his uncle, Dr. John2 Cutler,