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��GRANITE MONTHLY,

A NEW HAMPSHIRE MAGAZINE

Ofvoted to Literature, Biographv. History, and Siate Pro<;ress.

��Vol. VII.

��DECEMBER, 1883.

��No. :-i.

��BOX. LEONARD RICHARDSON CUTTER.

��The city of Boston is not the me- tropolis of Massachusetts alone ; it is the chief city of New F^rigland. In commercial in:iportance this city is sec- ond to none on the Western Continent, except New York. As a great empo- rium it has drawn within its limits the most energetic and enterprising men from every section of the Union, es- pecially from New England. These men have grasped great financial prob- lems, have organized and combined capital and labor, have inaugurated en- terprises extending through distant states and foreign countries, and have had, like the merchants of Antwerp and London, a world-wide reputation and influence.

The state of New Hampshire has contributed her quota to the long list of successful merchants of Boston, as well as to the distinguished statesmen of Massachusetts : men who, while be- coming thoroughly identified with the state of their adoption, have never lost their affection for the place of their birth, and the scenes of their child- hood.

Love for his native town is very marked in the case of the subject of this sketch ; a gentleman who in early manhood left his paternal home to seek his fortune in the city, and while eminently successful in acquiring riches, has gained and retained the re-

��spect and confidence of his feliow- citizens.

ancestry.

1. Richard Cutter, the progenitor of the Cutter family, son of Samuel and Elizabeth Cutter, came from Newcas- tle-upon-Tyne, England, with hiv mother, and settled in Cambridge, about 1640 ; was admitted a freeman. June 2, 164 1 ; joined the Ancient and Honorable Artillery of Boston in 1643 : was a member of the church ; married (1) about 1644, Elizabeth — —, whc died March 5, 166 1-2, aged about 42 years ; married (2) February 14, 1662-3. Frances (Perriman) Amsden. widow of Isaac Amsden, of Cambridge ; was the father of seven children by each wife ; was a cooper by trade ; and died June 16, 1693. He was buried in old Cambridge.

2. Ephraim Cuiter, born in 1651, married Bethia Wood, lived in Charles- town and Watertown, and had eight children. He was an officer in Kinj- Philip's war.

3. John Cutier was born July 23,
 * 700 ; married Rachel Powers, lived in

Lexington and Woburn, and died Nov. 20, 1747.

4. John Cutier, born January 9, 1726, lived in Waltham, Shrewsbury and New Ipswich, N. H. He mar- ried, Nov. t6. 1749, Susanna, daugh-

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