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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 70 70 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 23 23 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. 12 12 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 10 10 Browse Search
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct. 4 4 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. 4 4 Browse Search
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 2 2 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 2 2 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 3. 2 2 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 2 Browse Search
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Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 3 (search)
of the above land in Charlestown, which he recovered by law, as we have already stated; being a portion of that land, which certain inhabitants of Charlestown, in 1646, granted to Mr. Henry Dunster, President of the College, in Winottamy or Menotomy Field-Cambridge bounds one side, and Mystic Pond and River and Menotomy Brook theointed by the General Court to lay out the way from Cambridge to Woburn in 1643. This road leading from Woburn to Cambridge is described on the Woburn Records, in 1646, as leading to Cambridge mill and town the one way, and to Upstreet and Shawshin, in Woburn, the other way. In Woburn it was called Plain Street, from its going ov397-98, 513, 623, 653; Wyman, 22, 235. The History of the Reed Family, by J. W. Reed, p. 39, states, There was a Dr. Samuel Read of Stafford in England, who, in 1646 (1636?), furnished one Cook with funds to build a gristmill in Cambridge, Mass, and took a mortgage of the same. Whether this mill was on Charles River, or on a s
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 9 (search)
d West Cambridge. His house is not now extant. It was large, three stories high, brick ends, four rooms on a floor, with an excellent cellar under the whole, and built about the end of the last century. The timber for same was to be hewed square and straight, and to be delivered at Medford by the first of April, 1798. The house succeeded an older one on the same site, and was struck by lightning in 1813. The estate formed part of the tract granted by sundry inhabitants of Charlestown in 1646 to Henry Dunster, President of Harvard College, being purchased by Joseph Winship of David Dunster, a grandson of President Dunster, 12 Mar. 1742. Winship was grandfather of Mrs. Anna Cutter, and in consideration of her husband assuming the maintenance of her grandmother Anna Winship, who d. in 1806, aged 101, the estate was relinquished by the heirs to him, after 1784. Benjamin and w. An-Na had no issue. At her decease his estate was divided among very many heirs. He d. 8 Mar. 1824, a. 6