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State of Service: NH
Qualifying Service: Physician / Patriotic Service
Birth: 15 Mar 1735 North Yarmouth / ME Dist / MA Death: 08 Dec 1820
Qualifying Service Description:
Signed Assoc Test
Physician-Northern Army
Additional References:
28th-35th Annual Reports, NSDAR. Senate documents (United States Congress, Senate). Government Printing Office: Washington, DC
Spouse: Hannah Treadwell Children: Elizabeth;
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Author: Dr. Barry Paul Lewis Jr
Ammi Ruhama Cutter was born in North Yarmouth on 15 March 1735.
He traveled on horseback with a servant to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1747 to study for a year before entering Harvard College. He graduated with honors in 1752. While there, he made a close friendship with the future Governor of New Hampshire, John Wentworth.
He studied medicine under Dr. Clement Jackson of Portsmouth. He was appointed surgeon of Robert Rogers’s Rangers in 1755 during the French and Indian War and stationed at Fort Edward in 1756. He contracted smallpox in June 1758 and returned to Portsmouth after recovering.
He married Hannah Treadwell in Portsmouth on 02 November 1758. Their known children:
William was born in North Yarmouth in 1737.
Samuel was born in North Yarmouth in 1738.
Elizabeth was born in 1742. She never married.
After marrying, he declined an offer from Robert Rogers in 1759 to join another expedition with his Rangers, preferring to focus on his family and civilian career.
During the Revolutionary War, he signed the Association Test in Portsmouth on 14 August 1776.
In 1777, he was appointed physician general of the Eastern Department of the Continental Army and was stationed at Fishkill on the North River. He remained in that post until the beginning of 1778, when he resigned to return to his family. He had no interest in political life except for participating in a convention to draft the New Hampshire Constitution.
About 1794, his son William became a partner in his practice, and he gradually withdrew from his profession in response to worsening health. He had been President of the New Hampshire Medical Society, received an honorary doctorate of medicine from Harvard College, and was an honorary member of the Massachusetts Medical and Humane Societies.
He died on 8 December 1820, aged 85 years.
Sources:
Benjamin Cutter and William Richard Cutter, A History of the Cutter Family of New England (Boston, MA: David Clapp & Son, 1871), pages 60–61, 70–74, 76.
Albert Stillman Batchellor, New Hampshire State Papers, vol. 30, Miscellaneous Revolutionary Documents of New Hampshire Including the Association Test, the Pension Rolls, and Other Important Papers (Manchester, NH: John B. Clarke Co., 1910), pages 115, 121.
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