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See also:CUTLER, See also:MANASSEH (1742-1823) , See also:American clergyman, was See also:born in Killingly, See also:Connecticut, on the 13th of May 1742. He graduated at Yale See also:College in 1765, and after being a school teacher and a See also:merchant, and occasionally appearing in the courts as a lawyer, he decided to enter the See also:ministry, and from 1771 until his See also:death was pastor of the Congregational See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church at what is now See also:- HAMILTON
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
Hamilton, but until 1793 was a See also:parish of See also:Ipswich, See also:Massachusetts. During the See also:War of See also:Independence he was for several months in 1776 See also:chaplain to the See also:regiment of See also:Colonel Ebenezer See also:Francis, raised for the See also:defence of See also:Boston; and in 1778, as chaplain to the See also:brigade of See also:General See also:Jonathan Titcomb (1728-1817), he took See also:part in General See also:John See also:Sullivan's expedition to Rhode See also:Island. Soon after his return from this expedition he fitted himself for the practice of See also:medicine, in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to supplement the scanty income of a See also:minister, and in 1782 he established a private boarding school, which he conducted for about a See also:quarter of a See also:century. In 1786 he became interested in the See also:settlement of western lands, and in the following See also:year, as See also:agent of the See also:Ohio See also:Company (q.v.), which he had taken a prominent part in organizing, he made a See also:contract with See also:Congress, whereby his associates, former soldiers in the War of Independence, might See also:purchase, with the certificates of indebtedness issued to them by the See also:government for their services, '1,5oo,000 acres of See also:land in the region See also:north of the Ohio at the mouth of the Muskingumriver. He also took a leading part in drafting the famous See also:Ordinance of 1787 for the government of the Northwest Territory, the See also:instrument as it was finally presented to Congress by Nathan Dane (1752-1835), a Massachusetts delegate, probably being largely Cutler's See also:work. From 18o1 to 18o5 he was a Federalist representative in Congress. He died at Hamilton, Massachusetts, on the 28th of See also:July 1823. A versatile See also:man, Cutler was one of the See also:early members of the American See also:Academy of Arts and Sciences, and besides being proficient in the See also:theology, See also:law and medicine of his See also:day, conducted painstaking astronomical and meteorological investigations, and was one of the first Americans to make researches of a real scientific value in See also:botany. In 1789 the degree of See also:doctor of See also:laws was conferred upon him by Yale.
See See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William P. and Julia P. Cutler, The See also:Life, See also:Journals, and See also:Correspondence of Manasseh Cutler (2 vols., See also:Cincinnati, 1888) ; and an See also:article, " The Ordinance of 1787 and Dr Manasseh Cutler," by W. F. See also:Poole, in vol. 122 of the North American See also:Review.
End of Article: CUTLER, MANASSEH (1742-1823)
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