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MANASSEH CUTLER

Manasseh Cutler was an American clergyman, scientist and politician. He was born in 1742 at Connecticut and died in 1823. During the American War of Independence he served as a chaplain, and in 1786 was agent for the Ohio company which founded Marietta. He drafted for Nathan Dane the Ordinance of 1787 which excluded slavery from the Northwest-Territory, and was a Massachusetts Federal Congressman from 1801 to 1805.
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