Family of Capt. John1 and Mary (?) Cutting

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John Cutting, gent., was born probably at Ipswich, England, about 1593 (63 in 1656), died at Newbury MA 20 Nov. 1659; married about 1615 Mary ---- , who died at Newbury 6 Mar. 1663-4 (Walter G. Davis, Ancestry of Abel Lunt, 1963, 81-87).

A sea captain, Cutting made 13 or more Atlantic crossings; in 1634 he was master of the Francis, which brought colonists from Ipswich. In 1636 he took up land at Watertown, in 1638 had a house at Newbury, in 1648 settled at Charlestown, and by 1656 was again living at Newbury. He was in 1647 master of the Advent of Boston. His will (22 Oct. 1659, 27 Mar. 1660) names his daughter Mary Noyes and grandson Cutting.

His widow Mary probably married second Rev. John Miller, who died at Groton 12 June 1663: no children. Miller, graduate of Cambridge University in 1627, had a first wife Lydia ---- , who had died at Boston 7 Aug. 1658.

Children of Capt. John1 and Mary (?) Cutting:

  1. John2, b. in England; m. ---- : one dau., Mary.
  2. Mary, b. in England; m. Nicholas1 Noyes.
  3. Sarah, b. in England, d. Newbury 25 Oct. 1699; m. 1st James Browne, b. in England c1618, d. Salem MA 3 Nov. 1676, son of Joseph Browne: 6 Browne ch.; m. 2nd Newbury 29 Nov. 1677 William Healey of Watertown, b. in England c1613, d. Cambridge MA 28 Nov. 1683, 70y: no ch.; m. 3rd Newbury 3 Dec. 1685 Hugh March, b. in England c1618, d. Newbury 12 Dec. 1693, 85y: no ch.

    Browne had m. 1st Judith ---- , who d. Newbury 20 Nov. 1659. Healey had had 12 ch. by his 4 previous wives: Grace Iver, Sarah ---- , Grace Buttress, and Phebe Green. March had m. 1st c1645 Judith ---- , who d. 14 Dec. 1675: 5 ch.; and m. 2nd 29 May 1676 Dorcas (Bowman) Blackleath, who d. 22 Nov. 1683: no ch. It is unlikely that his first wife Judith was a dau. of John Cutting, as sometimes reported.

Reprinted with permission from an unpublished Noyes compilation by Perley Leighton.

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