Capt. John Cutting

Abt 1593 - 1659  (~ 66 years)

• Name	John Cutting
  Prefix	Capt.
  Birth	Abt 1593  [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	Abt 1594  [3]
  Death	20 Nov 1659	Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I26330	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	24 Feb 2023

  
  

  Family	Mary Ward,   b. Bef 1598   d. 6 Mar 1664, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts (Age > 66 years)
  Marriage	13 Aug 1619	St. Stephen, Ipswich, Suffolk, England   [4]
  Children	+ 1. Mary Cutting   d. Bef 1700 + 2. John Cutting,   b. Bef 1620
  Family ID	F15754	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Feb 2023

  
  

• Notes

  He is identified in several sources as a son or grandson of Richard Cutting and Ellen Fynce of Ardleigh, Essex, but Dean Crawford Smith (citation details below) shows how neither of these are likely. He was a master mariner, commander of multiple ships that crossed the Atlantic. The earliest record of him shows him in command of the Francis bound for New England out of Ipswich, England in April 1634 with some eighty passengers on board. He brought his wife and children to Watertown in 1636. In Newbury by 1639, Charlestown 1651 where he was styled gentleman. By 1656 the family returned to Newbury. His grandson the Rev. Nicholas Noyes oversaw, on Tuesday, July 19, 1692, the judicial murders for "witchcraft" of Sarah Good, Rebecca Nurse, Sarah Wilde, Elizabeth Howe, and TNH ancestor Susanna (North) Martin. Capt. John Cutting (d. 1659) = Mary Ward (d. 1664) Mary Cutting = Nicholas Noyes (1616-1701) John Noyes = Mary Poor John Noyes, Jr. = Mary Thurlo Elizabeth Noyes = William Adams Sarah Adams = Daniel Ayer Samuel Ayer = Polly Chase John Varnum Ayer = Elida Vanderburgh Manney George Manney Ayer = Amy Gridley Butler Adele Augusta Ayer = Levi Addison Gardner Dorothy Ayer Gardner = (1) Leslie Lynch King; (2) Gerald Rudolf Ford Leslie Lynch King, Jr., whose name was changed to Gerald Rudolph Ford, 38th President of the US

  
  

• Sources

  [S1791] The Ancestry of Abel Lunt, 1769-1806, of Newbury, Massachusetts by Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: The Anthoensen Press, 1963. [S5882] Ancestral Lines from Maine to North Carolina by Carl Boyer III. Santa Clarita, California, 2015. [S595] The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908, Part I: The Ancestry of Warren Frances Kempton 1817-1879 by Dean Crawford Smith; edited by Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996. [S1808] Leslie Mahler, "The English Origin of Nathaniel Ward of Hartford, Connecticut, and Hadley, Massachusetts, Mary (Ward) Cutting of Newbury, Massachusetts, Rebecca (Ward) Allen of Newbury, and Their Nephew William Markham of Hadley." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 83:13, January/April 2008.