Ammi Ruhamah Cutter

Ammi Ruhamah Cutter (March 15, 1735 – December 8, 1820) was an American physician. He served as a surgeon during the French and Indian War of 1754–1763, and was also the Physician General of the medical department of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War of 1775–1783. Early life Cutter was born on March 15, 1735, in North Yarmouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay (now Yarmouth, Maine), the son of Ammi Ruhamah Cutter Sr. and Dorothy Bradbury. His father was the first pastor of Yarmouth's First Parish Congregational Church, established at the Old Ledge Meetinghouse in November 1730. 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. In 1747, he was sent to be educated by a clergyman in Cambridge, Province of Massachusetts Bay. He made the ride on horseback through "thick wilderness", enduring several "hair-breath 'scapes" (likely with Indians) on the way. He graduated from Harvard College in 1752, 27 years after his father. One of his classmates was Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet, who became governor of the Province of New Hampshire. They later reacquainted in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where Wentworth was governor.