James Cutler, who arrived in Virginia in 1664.Richard Cutler, who landed in Massachusetts in 1641.Chr Cutler, who arrived in Virginia in 1637.James Cutler of Watertown, Massachusetts, who settled there in the year 1635.Research into various historical records revealed some of first members of the Cutler family emigrate to North America:Ĭutler Settlers in United States in the 17th Century Many of the families that came from England went on to make essential contributions to the emerging nations of Canada and the United States. Although many of the settlers did not make the long passage alive, those who did see the shores of North America perceived great opportunities before them. In droves people migrated to the many British colonies, those in North America in particular, paying high rates for passages in cramped, unsafe ships. To escape oppression and starvation at that time, many English families left for the 'open frontiers' of the New World with all its perceived opportunities. Hugh Cutler was repledged to liberty of burgh of Irvine, 1472, and Thomas Cutlar possessed a tenement in Brechin, 1493.' There is no mention of the family until 1606 when John Cuidar was served heir to his father in Oroland. The local tradition is that the first of the Cutlers who came to the parish was employed in sharpening the tools of the masons engaged in the erection of the abbey and thereby acquired their name. The Cutlers of Orroland, parish of Rerwick, are said to have obtained the lands from the monks of Dundrennan Abbey in 1437. 'Matthew de Coteleir of Berwick rendered homage in 1296. Moving further north from Yorkshire into Scotland, it was a Galloway name. 'From its frequency I should have expected a larger number of Cutlers in the present directories of that county. The Yorkshire Poll Tax Rolls of 1379 had some interesting entries as a surname and as an occupation: Ricardus Hyngham, cotteter Willelmus Cottelar Thomas Hank, of Handsworth, colder and Johannes Cotelar, of Handsworth, bakester. The same rolls listed Matilda la Cutiller, Lincolnshire. The surname Cutler was first found in London, where the Hundredorum Rolls of 1273 listed Saleman le Cotiler as holding lands at that time.

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