Younglove Cutler (1750 – 1816)

Contributed by Diane Ciba

Younglove Cutler was a successful merchant in the early days of Watertown. He first appears in town records in 1776 when he paid 40 pounds in taxes.

Born in Killingly, Connecticut on October 18, 1750, he married Dothea Stone in Watertown on December 16, 1784.  They had four children, Nancy, Elizabeth, Ann and George. Nancy died October 16, 1793 at the age of 8 and is buried in the Old Burying Ground (#616).* Dothea Stone, Younglove’s wife (also known as Dotha) died of consumption on September 3, 1803  and she is buried near her daughter Nancy (#615).*

With three young children, Younglove, age 53, soon married Anna “Aurora” Woodward, age 28, in late 1803 or early 1804. They had at least two children, Dothee and Leman.

Younglove Cutler died on April 28, 1816 at age 76 and is buried in the Old Burying Ground (#617). His wife, Anna Woodward Cutler, lived for another 48 years and died April 21, 1862 and is also buried in the Old Burying Ground (#869).

We know the Younglove Cutler family owned slaves from a list of burials compiled by James Skilton from town records. Those records list a black child, who died of Rickets at 18 months old and was buried December 16, 1802, and an 8 year old girl named Ama, who was buried June 28, 1804. Their graves are unmarked in the Old Burying Ground.

* The Old Burying Ground is the cemetery located at the corner of Main and French Streets. The DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) created a map in 1938 that locates the stones that remained at that time. Each stone was numbered and that number is listed here for reference.