U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Cutright, John Sr. ------------------------------------------------------------------- The History of Upshur County West Virginia From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time by W. B. Cutright Buckhannon, W. Va., July 1, 1907 Page 424 JOHN CUTRIGHT, SR., was a native of Virginia. His parents lived near Fairfax Courthouse for many years prior to their immigration to Looney's Creek, now in Hardy County, West Virginia, where he grew up, and about the year 1770, came to the Buckhannon Valley, joining the Pringle brothers. His father's name was likely Hendrick Cartright, for in the year 1753, he witnessed a deed from Peter Reed to Peter Haas. The biography of this first settler has been given in preceeding pages, except his connection with the Revolutionary War and his marriage after that war to Rebecca Truby. The Adjutant General's Office of the War Department of the United States Government furnishes this record of his service. "John Cutright served as a private in Captain Machen Boswell's Company, 2d Virginia State Regiment, commanded by Colonel Gregory Smith, Revolutionary War, and it appears on the company payroll for September, 1778, without remark, and it last appears on the company muster for February, 1779, which shows him "discharged." The report of the Secretary of War of 1833, contains the name of John Cutright, who began drawing a pension for his services in the Revolutionary War in the year 1831. At the time of his death in 1852, he was still drawing this pension. John Cutright's children: Jacob, Ann, John, William, Isaac and Christopher T„ Jacob married Elizabeth Westfall and their children were: Naomi, George, Isabella, Elmore, Susan, Theodore, Clark, Dexter W., and Ann, Ann married David Casto, and their children were: William, John, Martin, Ananias, Jacob, Rebecca, Isaac. John married Christina Wetherholt and their children were: David, William, Mary Ann, Maudline, Jemima, Jacob and Isaac. William married Elizabeth Cutright and their children were: Melvin, Matilda, Nathan, Isabelle, Bermelia, Adam, Catherine and Albert. Isaac married Cassie Ann Cutright and their children were: Salathiel, Marshall, Cynthia, Samantha, Oriah, Harriet and Thamar. Christopher T. married Sinai Pringle and their children were: John, Rebecca, Bednego, Nebo, Esther, Christopher, Ashby, Rachel, Ann, Wealthy, Minerva, Thursa and Jaspr N. ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Upshur County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/upshur/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------