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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsCUTLER, Manasseh
(1742—1823)
CUTLER, Manasseh, a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Killingly, Conn., May 13, 1742; was prepared for college by private teacher and was graduated from Yale College in 1765; taught school in Dedham, Mass., for a short time; engaged in the whaling business at Edgartown, Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1767 but did not practice; studied theology, and was licensed to preach in 1770; ordained to the ministry by the Congregational Society at Hamilton, Mass., September 11, 1771; appointed chaplain of Colonel Francis’ regiment September 5, 1776, and of General Titcomb’s brigade in 1778; began the study of medicine the same year and became a skilled physician; taught navigation; held in esteem for his knowledge of botany and astronomy; one of the projectors of the Ohio Company in 1787, formed for the purpose of colonizing the new Territory; drafted the Ordinance of 1787; appointed judge of the United States Court for Ohio in 1795 by President Washington, but declined; member of the State house of representatives in 1800; elected as a Federalist to the Seventh and Eighth Congresses (March 4, 1801-March 3, 1805); was not a candidate for renomination in 1804; engaged in literary pursuits; died in Hamilton, Mass., July 28, 1823; interment in Main Street Cemetery.
Bibliography
Cutler, W.P., and J.P. Cutler. Life Journals and Correspondence of Rev. Manasseh Cutler
. 2 vols. Cincinnati: R. Clarke & Co., 1888; Potts, Louis W. “Manasseh Cutler, Lobbyist.” Ohio History
96 (Summer/Autumn 1987): 101-23.
Brown, Robert E. Manasseh Cutler and the settlement of Ohio, 1788, by Robert Elliott Brown. An address delivered at the Union Sesquicentennial Memorial Service in the First Congregational Church, Marietta, Ohio, April 10, 1938
. Marietta, Ohio: The Marietta College Press, 1938.
Cutler, Manasseh. An account of some of the vegetable productions, naturally growing in this part of America
. Cincinnati, Ohio: J.U. & C.G. Lloyd, 1903.
———. Description of Ohio, by Manasseh Cutler. An explanation of the map which delineates that part of the federal lands comprehend between Pennsylvania west line, the rivers Ohio and Scioto, and Lake Erie; confirmed to the United States by sundry tribes of Indians, in the treaties of 1784 and 1786, and now ready for settlement
. Salem: Printed by Dabney and Cushing, 1787. Reprint, [Boston: Directors of the Old South Work, 1896].
———. A discourse, delivered in Salem
. [N. p.], 1813.
———. An explanation of the map of Federal lands
. [S]alem, [Mass.]: Printed by Dabney and Cushing, 1787. Reprint, Ann Arbor, [Mich.]: University Microfilms, [1966].
———. A map of the Federal Territory from the western boundary of Pennsylvania to the Scioto River laid down from the latest informations and divided into townships and fractional parts of townships agreeably to the ordinance of the honle. Congress passed in May 1785
. [Salem: N.p., 1788].
———. Ohio in 1788. A description of the soil, productions, etc., of that portion of the United States situated between Pennsylvania, the rivers Ohio and Scioto and Lake Erie. Tr. from the French, with notes and introduction, by John Henry James
. Columbus, Ohio: A. H. Smythe, 1888.
———. A sermon, delivered at Hamilton, on the day of the national fast, April 25, 1799, appointed by the President of the United States of America
. Salem: Printed by Joshua Cushing, 1799.
Cutler, W.P., and J.P. Cutler. Life Journals and Correspondence of Rev. Manasseh Cutler
. 2 vols. Cincinnati: R. Clarke & Co., 1888. Reprint, Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1987.
Newcomer, Lee Nathaniel. “Manasseh Cutler’s Writings: A Note on Editorial Practice.” Mississippi Valley Historical Review
47 (June 1960): 88-101.
Phillips, Philip Lee. The first map and description of Ohio, 1787, by Manasseh Cutler. A bibliographical account, with reprint of the “Explanation,” by P. Lee Phillips
. Washington: W.H. Lowdermilk & Company, 1918.
Poole, William Frederick. The Ordinance of 1787, and Dr. Manasseh Cutler as an agent in its formation
. Cambridge, Mass.: Welch, Bigelow, and Co., 1876.
Potts, Louis W. “Manasseh Cutler, Lobbyist.” Ohio History
96 (Summer/Autumn 1987): 101-23.
Wadsworth, Benjamin. The pious dead blessed. A discourse delivered July 30, 1823, in Hamilton, at the interment of the Rev. Manasseh Cutler, LL.D. who died July 28, 1823, in the 81st year of his age, and 52d of his ministry
. Andover, [Mass.]: Printed by Flagg and Gould, 1823.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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