His father was the first pastor of Yarmouth's First Parish Congregational Church, established at the Old Ledge Meetinghouse in November 1730.

[1] He and his family lived at the parsonage at today's 60 Gilman Road, around twenty yards to the east of where the church formerly stood, which was garrisoned during the Indian wars.

He made the 150 miles (240 km) ride on horseback through "thick wilderness", enduring several "hair-breath 'scapes" (likely with Indians) on the way.

Between this point and the onset of the American Revolutionary War, Cutter lived a simple life,[5] and began to grow his family.

It was voted, in March 1770, that the mill stream and privilege on Smith River in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, be forfeited and reverted to Cutter and David Sewall.

He was offered the role of Physician General of the eastern department, with his station being Fishkill, New York, on the North River.

[8] On December 18, 1758, after receiving news of the marriage, his mother, Dorothy Cutter, now a widow of twelve years, wrote to him: Dear son, Your letter informs me you are married.

Set up the worship of God in your family; and as he has been heaping many favors upon you, make a wise improvement of them, and in some measure live agreeable thereto.