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Richard, John, William, Samuel and Ammi Ruhamah Cutter, and four daughters of adult age. The mill-lane, and its relation to the Great Road to Boston, are shown in a plan of William Cutter's lands made about 1725. 1695. The highway to Cooke's mill, by Cutter's, was in litigation —specified as from Concord Road to Capt. Cooke's Mill, now in possession of William Cutter.—County Court Records. The Road from Cutter's Mill to Watertown is named in the Proprietors' Records of Cambridge before 1720. In the same records mention is made, in 1689, of Samuel Bull and the land adjoining his house lot, alleging what great damage he should sustain, if the highway to the mill should be laid by his land, by reason of the great fall of water in winter time, which would hinder all passage to and from his house; Robert Wilson's heirs' houselot adjoined to said Bull, butting on Concord Road, and three poles at the other end next the mill; the highway to the mill being then laid between this land
in Cambridge, to furnish their communion table in a decent manner.—Holmes, quoted by Paige. The Rev. Samuel Cooke, who was a native of Hadley, born January 11, 1709, in an autobiographical account in 1778, writes: I began to learn Latin in 1720, but being then the only son I was called off to the farm till a brother, born almost out of season, and growing, allowed me to resume my study in the year 1729. I entered Harvard College in 1731—had my first degree, 1735—kept school part of a yey his will left his homestead at my mother's decease wholly to my brother Jonathan in lieu of my education. The rest of his estate was equally to be divided between my brother and me—we paying legacies to our sisters. I began to learn Latin in 1720, but being then the only son I was called off to the farm till a brother, born almost out of season, and growing, allowed me to resume my study in the year 1729. I entered Harvard College in 1731—had my first degree, 1735—kept school part of