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MANASSEH CUTLER (1742-1823)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 671 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MANASSEH See also:CUTLER (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 at what is now See also: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 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 See also: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 P. and Julia P . Cutler, The See also:Life, See also:Journals, and See also:Correspondence of See also:Manasseh Cutler (2 vols., See also:Cincinnati, 1888) ; and an See also:article, " The Ordinance of 1787 and Dr Manasseh Cutler," by W .

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Poole, in vol . 122 of the North American See also:Review .

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