Letter from Jervis Cutter to Mrs. Levi Waterman, Clear Branch, Virginia.
Evansville, Indiana
Aug 20th 1843
My dear children, Mary Ann & Levi, The length of time since I have heard from you is so great that I cannot recollect the date of your last letter nor of the one which I wrote in answer to it. I have been thinking of writing again for a considerable time but the fact is I have continued to hope for and expect a letter from you, on receipt of this I hope and beg that you will neglect me no longer.
As for news we have nothing more than you see in the papers. The election has gone against us in Tennessee where it was all important for you to get it. Congress in the lower house being decidedly averse.....it is of little importance on which side the remainder shall be elected unless they were nearly all Whig, which cannot be looked for, but to secure a majority in the Senate is of the greatest importance to Tennessee and to that end I have worked unceasingly and give thanks that our efforts seem to be proving successful. I have employed my spare time (of which I assure you there has been little) in cultivating a vegetable garden, using some of your grandfather's methods with very satisfactory results both as to size and quality of the crop. We had about two acres of oak and hickory land that never had been cleared or borne a crop before. George and Eliza are of course in school. George is a fine lad of eleven, a handsome boy and quite studious - his mind more like my honored father's than any of the rest of you, I believe for he evinces such a keen curiosity regarding everything and must know its cause and effect. Eliza? Eliza goes lazily through school satisfied that she has never had to don the dunce cap. My step children, William, John, and Mary are all in good health as is their mother. We feel quite prideful of them. They are fine vigorous young people, ambitious with considerable ability and good sense. Charles has been studying Latin and a smattering of law with John and also has been doing some work with William in his printing office. I regret to say, however, that both he and George show signs of restlessness that has always hounded me. The desire for change naturally is more apparent in Charles as he is older. He already talks grandly of traveling to the far corners of the earth but I fear both boys have much too much of their sire in them for their own peace of mind. I recently received a letter from Ephraim in which he mentions that you and Amanda and Valentine contemplate a visit to us in the near future. Your stepmother and I sincerely hope this to be true and while our boating is good for I have not forgotten how you enjoyed the water, though it is possible a boat on a moonlit night has not quite the same allure it once had for you. I am also writing to our sister, Elizabeth, asking her if her aunt can not spare her for a visit at the same time. Brother Ephraim writes of a quite definite attachment between her and a young minister by the name of John Corn. She has not yet taken us into her confidence though she has mentioned him casually in her letters.
Kindly pass this letter on to the Beidlemans if you will. Also give our very best regards to our Virginia and Tennessee friends. Your stepmother asks me to give you her fond love.
Your affectionate Parent
Jervis Cutler
~ Source: This letter was copied by Nanna Cutler Lininger
Obituary
DIED - At his late residence in this place on Tuesday the 25th inst, in the seventy sixth year of his age, MAJOR JERVIS CUTLER, for twenty years the kind and indulgent step-parent of the proprietors of this paper.
The deceased was the the second son of the Rev. MANASSEH CUTLER, who for fifty two years was Pastor of the Congregationalist Church of Hamilton, Mass., the negotiator in 1787 with the Congress of the old confederation, of the famous purchase of a million and a half of acres for the Ohio Company, by means of which was effected the first settlement of that now great State, and from 1800 to 1804 the Representative in Congress from the Lynn District Massachusetts.
If the father deserves the credit for paving the way for the settlement of this then savage wilderness, the son is entitled to be considered the pioneer of the settlement itself. In 1788, at the early age of 19, he was one of the little band of 48 who emigrated from Massachusetts under Gen. Rufus Putnam, and pitched their tents at Marietta, in the very centre of the battle grounds of the Indians and Kentuckians of that day; and we have often heard him say that he was the first man who ever cut down a tree to make a clearing for a white habitation in what is not the fourth State in the Union. Of that little band of hardy pioneers he was probably the last survivor.
From 1806 to the end of the war of Independence, the deceased was an officer of the Ohio Militia, and of the regular army, but the scene of his services happened to be at no time that of actual conflict. In 1809, under the commission of the General Government, he recruited a company for the Southern service, and was ordered to New Orleans, where is services not being needed, he returned with the remnant of his company which the fevers of the South had left, and was afterwards placed in command at Fort Washington (Cincinnati) where he had under him, the then Lieutenant, now General Jessup, and others who have since figured in the Military annals of the country.
He lived a long useful and eventful life, proverbial every where, and with every one who knew him. for his sterling integrity, and kindheartedness, and he died lamented by all. His biography would form an interesting chapter in the history of the country, but must be left to abler and less partial hands than the writer of this hasty and unworthy obituary, who is too much overcome with his recent sudden loss, and the deep sense of the many, many, acts of kindness received at his hands to dwell longer upon so painful a subject.
~ Source: Evansville Weekly Journal - Evansville, Indiana - Thursday, 27 June 1844 - Page 3
Evansville, Indiana
Aug 20th 1843
My dear children, Mary Ann & Levi, The length of time since I have heard from you is so great that I cannot recollect the date of your last letter nor of the one which I wrote in answer to it. I have been thinking of writing again for a considerable time but the fact is I have continued to hope for and expect a letter from you, on receipt of this I hope and beg that you will neglect me no longer.
As for news we have nothing more than you see in the papers. The election has gone against us in Tennessee where it was all important for you to get it. Congress in the lower house being decidedly averse.....it is of little importance on which side the remainder shall be elected unless they were nearly all Whig, which cannot be looked for, but to secure a majority in the Senate is of the greatest importance to Tennessee and to that end I have worked unceasingly and give thanks that our efforts seem to be proving successful. I have employed my spare time (of which I assure you there has been little) in cultivating a vegetable garden, using some of your grandfather's methods with very satisfactory results both as to size and quality of the crop. We had about two acres of oak and hickory land that never had been cleared or borne a crop before. George and Eliza are of course in school. George is a fine lad of eleven, a handsome boy and quite studious - his mind more like my honored father's than any of the rest of you, I believe for he evinces such a keen curiosity regarding everything and must know its cause and effect. Eliza? Eliza goes lazily through school satisfied that she has never had to don the dunce cap. My step children, William, John, and Mary are all in good health as is their mother. We feel quite prideful of them. They are fine vigorous young people, ambitious with considerable ability and good sense. Charles has been studying Latin and a smattering of law with John and also has been doing some work with William in his printing office. I regret to say, however, that both he and George show signs of restlessness that has always hounded me. The desire for change naturally is more apparent in Charles as he is older. He already talks grandly of traveling to the far corners of the earth but I fear both boys have much too much of their sire in them for their own peace of mind. I recently received a letter from Ephraim in which he mentions that you and Amanda and Valentine contemplate a visit to us in the near future. Your stepmother and I sincerely hope this to be true and while our boating is good for I have not forgotten how you enjoyed the water, though it is possible a boat on a moonlit night has not quite the same allure it once had for you. I am also writing to our sister, Elizabeth, asking her if her aunt can not spare her for a visit at the same time. Brother Ephraim writes of a quite definite attachment between her and a young minister by the name of John Corn. She has not yet taken us into her confidence though she has mentioned him casually in her letters.
Kindly pass this letter on to the Beidlemans if you will. Also give our very best regards to our Virginia and Tennessee friends. Your stepmother asks me to give you her fond love.
Your affectionate Parent
Jervis Cutler
~ Source: This letter was copied by Nanna Cutler Lininger
Obituary
DIED - At his late residence in this place on Tuesday the 25th inst, in the seventy sixth year of his age, MAJOR JERVIS CUTLER, for twenty years the kind and indulgent step-parent of the proprietors of this paper.
The deceased was the the second son of the Rev. MANASSEH CUTLER, who for fifty two years was Pastor of the Congregationalist Church of Hamilton, Mass., the negotiator in 1787 with the Congress of the old confederation, of the famous purchase of a million and a half of acres for the Ohio Company, by means of which was effected the first settlement of that now great State, and from 1800 to 1804 the Representative in Congress from the Lynn District Massachusetts.
If the father deserves the credit for paving the way for the settlement of this then savage wilderness, the son is entitled to be considered the pioneer of the settlement itself. In 1788, at the early age of 19, he was one of the little band of 48 who emigrated from Massachusetts under Gen. Rufus Putnam, and pitched their tents at Marietta, in the very centre of the battle grounds of the Indians and Kentuckians of that day; and we have often heard him say that he was the first man who ever cut down a tree to make a clearing for a white habitation in what is not the fourth State in the Union. Of that little band of hardy pioneers he was probably the last survivor.
From 1806 to the end of the war of Independence, the deceased was an officer of the Ohio Militia, and of the regular army, but the scene of his services happened to be at no time that of actual conflict. In 1809, under the commission of the General Government, he recruited a company for the Southern service, and was ordered to New Orleans, where is services not being needed, he returned with the remnant of his company which the fevers of the South had left, and was afterwards placed in command at Fort Washington (Cincinnati) where he had under him, the then Lieutenant, now General Jessup, and others who have since figured in the Military annals of the country.
He lived a long useful and eventful life, proverbial every where, and with every one who knew him. for his sterling integrity, and kindheartedness, and he died lamented by all. His biography would form an interesting chapter in the history of the country, but must be left to abler and less partial hands than the writer of this hasty and unworthy obituary, who is too much overcome with his recent sudden loss, and the deep sense of the many, many, acts of kindness received at his hands to dwell longer upon so painful a subject.
~ Source: Evansville Weekly Journal - Evansville, Indiana - Thursday, 27 June 1844 - Page 3
Letter from Jervis Cutter to Mrs. Levi Waterman, Clear Branch, Virginia.
Evansville, Indiana
Aug 20th 1843
My dear children, Mary Ann & Levi, The length of time since I have heard from you is so great that I cannot recollect the date of your last letter nor of the one which I wrote in answer to it. I have been thinking of writing again for a considerable time but the fact is I have continued to hope for and expect a letter from you, on receipt of this I hope and beg that you will neglect me no longer.
As for news we have nothing more than you see in the papers. The election has gone against us in Tennessee where it was all important for you to get it. Congress in the lower house being decidedly averse.....it is of little importance on which side the remainder shall be elected unless they were nearly all Whig, which cannot be looked for, but to secure a majority in the Senate is of the greatest importance to Tennessee and to that end I have worked unceasingly and give thanks that our efforts seem to be proving successful. I have employed my spare time (of which I assure you there has been little) in cultivating a vegetable garden, using some of your grandfather's methods with very satisfactory results both as to size and quality of the crop. We had about two acres of oak and hickory land that never had been cleared or borne a crop before. George and Eliza are of course in school. George is a fine lad of eleven, a handsome boy and quite studious - his mind more like my honored father's than any of the rest of you, I believe for he evinces such a keen curiosity regarding everything and must know its cause and effect. Eliza? Eliza goes lazily through school satisfied that she has never had to don the dunce cap. My step children, William, John, and Mary are all in good health as is their mother. We feel quite prideful of them. They are fine vigorous young people, ambitious with considerable ability and good sense. Charles has been studying Latin and a smattering of law with John and also has been doing some work with William in his printing office. I regret to say, however, that both he and George show signs of restlessness that has always hounded me. The desire for change naturally is more apparent in Charles as he is older. He already talks grandly of traveling to the far corners of the earth but I fear both boys have much too much of their sire in them for their own peace of mind. I recently received a letter from Ephraim in which he mentions that you and Amanda and Valentine contemplate a visit to us in the near future. Your stepmother and I sincerely hope this to be true and while our boating is good for I have not forgotten how you enjoyed the water, though it is possible a boat on a moonlit night has not quite the same allure it once had for you. I am also writing to our sister, Elizabeth, asking her if her aunt can not spare her for a visit at the same time. Brother Ephraim writes of a quite definite attachment between her and a young minister by the name of John Corn. She has not yet taken us into her confidence though she has mentioned him casually in her letters.
Kindly pass this letter on to the Beidlemans if you will. Also give our very best regards to our Virginia and Tennessee friends. Your stepmother asks me to give you her fond love.
Your affectionate Parent
Jervis Cutler
~ Source: This letter was copied by Nanna Cutler Lininger
Obituary
DIED - At his late residence in this place on Tuesday the 25th inst, in the seventy sixth year of his age, MAJOR JERVIS CUTLER, for twenty years the kind and indulgent step-parent of the proprietors of this paper.
The deceased was the the second son of the Rev. MANASSEH CUTLER, who for fifty two years was Pastor of the Congregationalist Church of Hamilton, Mass., the negotiator in 1787 with the Congress of the old confederation, of the famous purchase of a million and a half of acres for the Ohio Company, by means of which was effected the first settlement of that now great State, and from 1800 to 1804 the Representative in Congress from the Lynn District Massachusetts.
If the father deserves the credit for paving the way for the settlement of this then savage wilderness, the son is entitled to be considered the pioneer of the settlement itself. In 1788, at the early age of 19, he was one of the little band of 48 who emigrated from Massachusetts under Gen. Rufus Putnam, and pitched their tents at Marietta, in the very centre of the battle grounds of the Indians and Kentuckians of that day; and we have often heard him say that he was the first man who ever cut down a tree to make a clearing for a white habitation in what is not the fourth State in the Union. Of that little band of hardy pioneers he was probably the last survivor.
From 1806 to the end of the war of Independence, the deceased was an officer of the Ohio Militia, and of the regular army, but the scene of his services happened to be at no time that of actual conflict. In 1809, under the commission of the General Government, he recruited a company for the Southern service, and was ordered to New Orleans, where is services not being needed, he returned with the remnant of his company which the fevers of the South had left, and was afterwards placed in command at Fort Washington (Cincinnati) where he had under him, the then Lieutenant, now General Jessup, and others who have since figured in the Military annals of the country.
He lived a long useful and eventful life, proverbial every where, and with every one who knew him. for his sterling integrity, and kindheartedness, and he died lamented by all. His biography would form an interesting chapter in the history of the country, but must be left to abler and less partial hands than the writer of this hasty and unworthy obituary, who is too much overcome with his recent sudden loss, and the deep sense of the many, many, acts of kindness received at his hands to dwell longer upon so painful a subject.
~ Source: Evansville Weekly Journal - Evansville, Indiana - Thursday, 27 June 1844 - Page 3
Evansville, Indiana
Aug 20th 1843
My dear children, Mary Ann & Levi, The length of time since I have heard from you is so great that I cannot recollect the date of your last letter nor of the one which I wrote in answer to it. I have been thinking of writing again for a considerable time but the fact is I have continued to hope for and expect a letter from you, on receipt of this I hope and beg that you will neglect me no longer.
As for news we have nothing more than you see in the papers. The election has gone against us in Tennessee where it was all important for you to get it. Congress in the lower house being decidedly averse.....it is of little importance on which side the remainder shall be elected unless they were nearly all Whig, which cannot be looked for, but to secure a majority in the Senate is of the greatest importance to Tennessee and to that end I have worked unceasingly and give thanks that our efforts seem to be proving successful. I have employed my spare time (of which I assure you there has been little) in cultivating a vegetable garden, using some of your grandfather's methods with very satisfactory results both as to size and quality of the crop. We had about two acres of oak and hickory land that never had been cleared or borne a crop before. George and Eliza are of course in school. George is a fine lad of eleven, a handsome boy and quite studious - his mind more like my honored father's than any of the rest of you, I believe for he evinces such a keen curiosity regarding everything and must know its cause and effect. Eliza? Eliza goes lazily through school satisfied that she has never had to don the dunce cap. My step children, William, John, and Mary are all in good health as is their mother. We feel quite prideful of them. They are fine vigorous young people, ambitious with considerable ability and good sense. Charles has been studying Latin and a smattering of law with John and also has been doing some work with William in his printing office. I regret to say, however, that both he and George show signs of restlessness that has always hounded me. The desire for change naturally is more apparent in Charles as he is older. He already talks grandly of traveling to the far corners of the earth but I fear both boys have much too much of their sire in them for their own peace of mind. I recently received a letter from Ephraim in which he mentions that you and Amanda and Valentine contemplate a visit to us in the near future. Your stepmother and I sincerely hope this to be true and while our boating is good for I have not forgotten how you enjoyed the water, though it is possible a boat on a moonlit night has not quite the same allure it once had for you. I am also writing to our sister, Elizabeth, asking her if her aunt can not spare her for a visit at the same time. Brother Ephraim writes of a quite definite attachment between her and a young minister by the name of John Corn. She has not yet taken us into her confidence though she has mentioned him casually in her letters.
Kindly pass this letter on to the Beidlemans if you will. Also give our very best regards to our Virginia and Tennessee friends. Your stepmother asks me to give you her fond love.
Your affectionate Parent
Jervis Cutler
~ Source: This letter was copied by Nanna Cutler Lininger
Obituary
DIED - At his late residence in this place on Tuesday the 25th inst, in the seventy sixth year of his age, MAJOR JERVIS CUTLER, for twenty years the kind and indulgent step-parent of the proprietors of this paper.
The deceased was the the second son of the Rev. MANASSEH CUTLER, who for fifty two years was Pastor of the Congregationalist Church of Hamilton, Mass., the negotiator in 1787 with the Congress of the old confederation, of the famous purchase of a million and a half of acres for the Ohio Company, by means of which was effected the first settlement of that now great State, and from 1800 to 1804 the Representative in Congress from the Lynn District Massachusetts.
If the father deserves the credit for paving the way for the settlement of this then savage wilderness, the son is entitled to be considered the pioneer of the settlement itself. In 1788, at the early age of 19, he was one of the little band of 48 who emigrated from Massachusetts under Gen. Rufus Putnam, and pitched their tents at Marietta, in the very centre of the battle grounds of the Indians and Kentuckians of that day; and we have often heard him say that he was the first man who ever cut down a tree to make a clearing for a white habitation in what is not the fourth State in the Union. Of that little band of hardy pioneers he was probably the last survivor.
From 1806 to the end of the war of Independence, the deceased was an officer of the Ohio Militia, and of the regular army, but the scene of his services happened to be at no time that of actual conflict. In 1809, under the commission of the General Government, he recruited a company for the Southern service, and was ordered to New Orleans, where is services not being needed, he returned with the remnant of his company which the fevers of the South had left, and was afterwards placed in command at Fort Washington (Cincinnati) where he had under him, the then Lieutenant, now General Jessup, and others who have since figured in the Military annals of the country.
He lived a long useful and eventful life, proverbial every where, and with every one who knew him. for his sterling integrity, and kindheartedness, and he died lamented by all. His biography would form an interesting chapter in the history of the country, but must be left to abler and less partial hands than the writer of this hasty and unworthy obituary, who is too much overcome with his recent sudden loss, and the deep sense of the many, many, acts of kindness received at his hands to dwell longer upon so painful a subject.
~ Source: Evansville Weekly Journal - Evansville, Indiana - Thursday, 27 June 1844 - Page 3
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We believe he might be buried in this cemetery since he was living in this area in 1840. His wife is buried here.
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