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Note for: Richard Christophers, 13 JUL 1662 - 9 JUN 1726 Index

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He was Assistant to Governor Gordon Saltonstall of Connecticut in 1711.

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Note for: William Hull, 28 NOV 1750 - 1796 Index

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Died rhree days after being released as a prisoner of the Spanish in St. Augustine.

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Note for: John Cutler, 6 AUG 1676 - 21 SEP 1761 Index

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He adopted John, the son of his brother, Peter.

He later adopted John, son of his briother David.

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Note for: John Cutler, - 1743 Index

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Adopted by his Uncle upon the death of his father.

He died young.

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Note for: John Cutler, 1723 - 6 OCT 1805 Index

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As a brass founder, he was a prominent businessman in Boston. He was also grand master of the first Freemasonry Lodge of Boston. The Lodge's history says:

On the 5th of December, 1791, a committee was appointed agreeably to a vote of the
second of March, 1791, "to confer with the officers of St. John's Grand
Lodge upon the subject of a complete Masonic union throughout the
commonwealth," which was consummated on the 19th of June, 1792, when the
officers of the two grand lodges met in conjunction, agreeably to previous
arrangements, and installed the Most Worshipful John Cutler Grand master;
and resolved, "that this Grand Lodge organization as aforesaid, shall
forever hereafter be known by the name of The Grand Lodge of the Most
Ancient and Honorable Society of Free and Accepted Masons for the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts."

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Note for: Benjamin Clark Cutler, 15 SEP 1756 - APR 1810 Index

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Was businessman in Boston and was for a time sheriff of Norfolk County.

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Note for: Samuel Parker, - 6 DEC 1804 Index

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SAMUEL PARKER, the third son of Hon. William Parker of Portsmouth, was born August, 1744. He was elected assistant minister of the Trinity Church, in Boston, in October, 1773. On the 27th of June, 1779, Dr. Parker was unanimously elected rector of the church. His reputation extended throughout the Union, and was rewarded with a doctorate from a respectable university. He was looked up to as the head of the Episcopal church in New England, and inferior to no clergyman on the continent in the essential accomplishments for that sacred office. After the decease of Bishop Bass, he was unanimously elected Bishop of the eastern diocese, which office he accepted. He was consecrated in New York on the 15th of Sept. 1804. He died on the 6th of December, 1804. Bishop Parker was married in November, 1776, to Annie, daughter of Mr. John Cutler of Boston.

Their children were John Rowe, who kept the telegraph establishment in Boston; Samuel Dunn, District Attorney for the county of Suffolk; William has been one of the Aldermen in Boston; Thomas Ives, a physician, and James Floyd, twins, deceased; Benjamin Clark, an Episcopalian clergyman in the western part of Massachusetts, (Lennox, we believe); Richard Green, a distinguished teacher in Boston and author of several school books; Elizabeth died young; Mary Cutler single; Anna died young; Sarah Dunn married to Samuel H. Packer; Maria; Rebecca married Rev. Theodore Edson, Episcopal minister at Lowell, Mass.

Fifteen years after the Pilgrims landed, the first Parker came to this country from England
The first Parkers to move to Lexington in 1712, were from Reading and settled in the south part of town. By a deed dated June 12, 1712, John Cutler sold to John Parker land at Cambridge Farms containing "one small mansion house and about sixty acres of land more or less". Captain Parker was born in that house on Spring Street.