Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct.

Whittemore, Samuel (a grandson of Thomas of Chas.), and w. Elizabeth, were both adm. to the Pct. ch. 10 Aug. 1740—formerly Elizabeth Spring. Elizabeth, wife of Capt. Samuel, d. 5 June, 1764, a. 63 (or 64—g. s. Pct. B. G.). Had dau. Elizabeth, styled Jr., adm. Pct. ch. 8 Nov. 1741, and m. William Cutler, 15 Sept. 1743; Sarah, m. John Dickson, Jr., 19 Jan. 1749; Susanna, d. ‘of a sudden illness,’ 5 Apr. 1752, a. 20 yrs., unm.; Hannah, m. Thomas Cutter, 19 May, 1757–Cutter (par. 36); Mary, b. 5, bap. 10 May, 1741, m. Stephen Whitmore, 3d, of Medford, 14 July, 1763. Mary Andrew, at Capt. Whittemore's, d. 7 Dec. 1756. Capt. Samuel the father d. (2) or 3 Feb. 1793, a. 99; otherwise 96, and 98 (g. s.). He was one of the Pct. committeeman 5 yrs. between 1734 and 1747; Pct. treasurer, 1751-57, and Pct. assessor four years; selectman and assessor sixteen years, 1743-46, '48-57, '59, ‘62; served on important committees during the Revolutionary period, and had been Captain of Dragoons. This was the celebrated Samuel Whittemore, the aged veteran, who withstood the assault of several British soldiers in Menotomy, on the retreat of the enemy from Lexington and Concord, 19 April, 1775, and who is stated to have killed two of the British, and was then shot and bayoneted six or eight times by them, but although terribly wounded, and nearly 80 years old, survived eighteen years afterward. See Paige, 414, 415, 688, &c.; Wyman's Chas., 1027, group 41.

2. Samuel, s. of Samuel (1), m. Love Stone, 11 June, 1747. Styled 3d, when he married, and sometimes Jr., to distinguish him from his father, and from his cousin Dea. Samuel Whittemore, of the First, or Old, Parish. Samuel, Jr., was adm. Pct. ch. 17 July, 1774. He d. 5 (6) Mar. 1800, a. 79 (g. s.); his w. Love d. 13 (14) Feb. 1793, a. 72 (71—g. s.). Had Samuel, b. 6, bap. 8 May, 1748; a dau., b. and d. 3 Dec. 1749; Elizabeth, b. 7, bap. 10 Nov. 1751, d. 13 Mar. 1753, a. 17 mos.; Elizabeth, b. 20, bap. 28 Oct. 1753, m. Amos Warren, 25 Nov. 1773; Nathan, b. 17, bap. 20 Nov. 1757; Jonathan, b. 4, bap. 14 Nov. 1762; Josiah, b. 4, bap. 9 Dec. 1764. See Wyman, 1027. He was Pct. treasurer, 1786 (1787, excused); Pct. collector, 1776-77.

3. Thomas, s. of Samuel (1), m. Anna Cutter, 1 Feb. 1753— Cutter (par. 14). Both were adm. Pct. ch. 14 July, 1754. He was a Pct. committeeman and assessor 1778-84. He d. 5 Oct. 1799, a. 70. She d. 17 Jan. 1816, a. 84. Had Anna, b. 14, bap. 18 Aug. 1754, m. Thomas Russell, 8 Mar. 1774; Thomas, b. 1, bap. 3 Oct. 1756; Amos, bap. 22 Apr. 1759; William, bap. 1 Feb. 1761; Su-sanna, b. 5, bap. 14 Aug. 1763, m. Francis Cutter of Chas., 29 Dec. 1782—Cutter (par. 32); Aaron, b. 13, bap. 21 Aug. 1765—‘privately at his house’—d. 21 Apr. 1766, a.—mos.; Aaron, b. 30 Mar. 1767, d. 3 [1] Mar. 1767, a. 2 days; Rhoda, b. 2, bap. 4 Feb. 1770, m. Jacob Nason—see Nason; Lydia, b. 29 Nov., bap. 1 Dec. 1771, adm. Pct. ch. 23 Oct. 1803, m. Dr. Nathaniel Noyes, 18 May, 1819; Samuel, b. 25, bap. 27 Mar. 1774; Gershom, b. 6, bap. 7 Apr. 1776— privately, sick. A nurse child at Thomas Whittemore's d.—June, 1757, a. 3 mos. See Gutter Book, 231-2, 393-4.