1825 Deed, W. Cambridge, Arlington MA. Anna Cutter etc

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I copied lots (probably way too much) of information about Anna Cutter below:

This is from: A History of the Cutter family of New England, 1875

Benjamin [Cutter], b. 7 Nov. 1761; m. Anna Wyeth. She was dau. of Ebenezer and Mary (Winship) Wyeth, of Cambridge, and b. Feb. 22, 1766. He d. without issue in West Cambridge, Mar. 8, 1824. His widow d. April 15, 1842.

Mr. Cutter was a farmer, and owned a valuable estate lying cast of the present cemetery in Arlington, and bordering on Mystic river. He lived in a large house with brick ends, much after the model of Col. Eoyall's mansion in Medford, and which stood a few rods east of the residence of Mr. Joshua Robbins. It was once struck by lightning, and the mind of the owner affected. It is now demolished. He was an original character, and held peculiar views on political and religious topics, which he never failed to broach on every available occasion. Many of his ideas were indeed in advance of the times, and worthy of a better cultured intellect. He was notably eccentric in habits and disposition, and few men in his vicinity have been more odd. His estate at his widow's decease descended to the families nearest akin. Interesting papers regarding the settlement are presented in the Appendix.

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The following are excerpts from: History of the Town of Arlington, Massachusetts ...  by Benjamin and William R Cutter, Boston: David Clapp & Son. 1880       [note: Pet. refers to St. Peter's Church]

   Genealogical Register of the Inhabitants of The Second Precinct in Cambridge. Afterward the Town of West Cambridge and The Town of Arlington.

CUTTER
 Benjamin,  m. Anna Wyeth, 6 Mar. 1785. He was prob. the Benjamin, laborer, and wife, who went from Cambridge to Charlestown, 1786. She was prob. the Anna, adm. to Pet. ch. 4 Apr. 1802. He resided at a point a few rods west of the bridge across the Wear in Mystic River, between Arlington and Medford, and letters he received were addressed " Charlestown," ' Medford," " Menotomy," " Charlestown near the Wears Bridge." " Charlestown to be left at West Cambridge Post Office," and " West Cambridge." His house is not now extant. It was " large, three stories high, brick ends, four rooms on a floor, with an excellent cellar under the whole," and built about the end of the last century. The timber for same was " to be hewed square and straight, and to be delivered at Medford by the first of April, 1798." The house succeeded an older one on the same site, and was struck by lightning in 1813. The estate formed part of the tract granted by sundry inhabitants of Charlestown in 1646 to Henry Dunster, President of Harvard College, being purchased by Joseph Winship of David Dunster, a grandson of President Dunster, 12 Mar. 1742. Winship was grandfather of Mrs. Anna Cutter, and in consideration of her husband assuming the maintenance of her grandmother Anna Winship, who d. in 1806, aged 101, the estate was relinquished by the heirs to him, after 1784. Benjamin and w. Anna had no issue. At her decease his estate was divided among very many heirs. He d. 8 Mar. 1824. a. 63; she d. 15 Apr. 1842, a. 76  she was a Pet. committeeman from 1794 to 1801, and Pet. assessor 1795, '96, 1801, '02.

[still from the same source (History of the Town of Arlington..)]  :
 
Family Of Ebenezer Wyeth.—The following interesting particulars regarding the descendants of Ebenezer Wyeth. of Cambridge (Mt. Auburn), are procured from family records and papers:

Anna, the daughter, m Benjamin Cutter, of Charlestown, 6 Mar. 1785, who d. 8 Mar. 1824, without issue. At her death in 1842, the property was divided among the relatives, who proved to be very numerous.—See Appendix to Cutter Book for a copy of the settlement.

Joshua [Wyeth], s. of Ebenezer (1), settled about 1813 in Cincinnati, Ohio, and deceased Feb. 1832. He was one of the celebrated Boston Tea Party in 1773, and his account of his participation in that event to Rev. Timothy Flint, in 1827, the well-known writer on the Western Country, was reproduced in the Old and New, for January, 1S74. At the time of the destruction of the British tea, in Boston Harbor, Joshua was a journeyman blacksmith in Boston, living with a tory master; and owing to his being a young man not much known in town, and not liable to be easily reeognized, it was proposed that he and other young men, similarly unknown, should lead in the business. Therefore he and his companions were dressed to resemble Indians, and their faces were smeared "with soot or lampblack. Their most intimate acquaintances among the spectators "had not the least knowledge of them." "We surely resembled," says the narrator, " devils from the bottomless pit, rather than men."