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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 4 (search)
author, and which he then conceived were in prospect before him, on Lord's day, May 4, 1788, being the first sabbath of his preaching after his ordination, from these words in Acts XX. 24: For none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God! — Fiske's Anniversary Discourse, April 23, 1809, note, pp. 5-6. In the month of November, 1788, after entering on his work, Mr. Fiske was visited with a fever, which brought him to the verge of death. During the space of four months he was wholly taken off from his labors. In March, 1804, he was visited with a return of the same fever, by which he was unable to preach for five sabbaths.—Anniversary Discourse. 1790 Voted to choose a committee to assist Samuel Cutter, Jr., in a lawsuit with Lemuel Blanchard, which took rise on his making distress on him for a parish tax. Th