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About Philadelphia Cutler
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"Alas! my dear sister Cutler is gone, no more to return affliction hath drank my spirits up and almost drowned my words. This, this is indeed in irreparable loss to her family. For death! Ah! There is the sting. Hath bereft her husband of a kind companion, and her children of a tender mother. Alas dear group long shall your lyres remain unstrung, and the needs of your joys long neglected on the willows; even when that grave is over grown with turf, which contains your reverend sleeping wife and mother, Dear children you must have your share of woe. Time may heal those sorrows, and close your wounds made by this affliction; but I earnestly commend you all to that benign comforter of sad distress who hath power to wound and also to heal again, and may the genial influence of Divine consolation discerned in softest showers of compassionate tenderness and power. This balm of healing grace into your wounds which affliction hath made and bind up your broken hearts. No more the flush of life encircles the cheeks of my dear sister Cutler; no more does her eyes glisten with the dew of sympathy; That voice which once in mildest accents soothed the sorrows of her fathers venerable age, is silent in the house of clay. Cold also is that heart that melted at others woes; for night has come and wrapped her in its peaceful slumbers. Kind angels will reward her for the tears of pity she has shed for the distressed helpless poor and sick. Great distance has prevented me from witnessing my dear sisters dying scenes, On this account my swelling breast is as the bursting cloud which breaks not away, a tempest without the knowledge of a calm. May peace always spread its joyful wings over her surviving children and relations, and may it warm the hearts of all those were allied to our departed friend to resemble her; and may the gentleness of her spirit ever live in them, that they may be influenced to imitate her ways. She was esteemed and beloved by those who knew her. A native candor and amiable simplicity dignified her actions She was ever patient and resigned under her former sicknesses. She was remarkable for her peaceable disposition, but the breath of her dear life is flown, and she is gone, and who can express the affliction of her sorrowing lonely sister Mary, who for the sake of the deceased was tempted to repair with her to the same distant clime, and follow the fortune of her beloved sister baleful destiny reserved her the mournful spectacle of her sisters disease and exit out of time. Oh! How severe must be her affliction, at being bereft of her favorite friend, after roaming to such a distance with her, for the sake of continuing to enjoyment of her company. Could her crimes in celestial powers decree so awful a revolution? Those awful circles was yet unfinished when her beloved sister was no more. These considerations spread a gloom over my mind and awakens the sympathy of my nature. As for my poor sister Mary misery seems to be her portion and despair all her comfort. But the great Ruler of all events hath permitted it, and it is well. O may she enjoy His compassion from the depths to which she is fallen and when it pleases Him. O may she be forever reunited to her late reverend sister. Who was born in Pomfret Con. February 19th 1773. And died in Warren Ohio October 6th 1820."
See also: Life and Times of Ephraim Cutler for confirmation of the marriage as well as her birth to Captain Benjamin Cargill whose Mill was at Quinebaug https://archive.org/stream/lifeandtimeseph01dawegoog#page/n295/mode...
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Philadelphia Cutler's Timeline
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1773
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| 1797 |
May 13, 1797
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Massachusetts, United States
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| 1800 |
August 22, 1800
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Palmer, Hampden County, MA, United States
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| 1820 |
1820
Age 47
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