 He was then appointed Second Comptroller of the Treasury on March 6, 1817, and served in this capacity until March 21, 1829.Cutts died in Washington, D.C.; initial interment was in St. John's Graveyard, and in 1857 reinterment was in Oak Hill Cemetery.He was the husband of Dolley Madison's sister Anna, and thus President James Madison's brother-in-law.