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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. 34 34 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)
the wars in 1652. His mill is now Fowle's, near Arlington Centre, long known as Cutter's Mill. Gov. John Winthrop and M. Cradock were granted by the General Court the wear at Menotomy, 1633-4. See Wyman's Charlestown, 246, 1043. This wear or fishing dam was in Mystic River, at outlet of Pond. The early transfers of land in the Charlestown part of Menotomy are particularly mentioned in the late T. B. Wyman's great work entitled the Charlestown Genealogies and Estates, 1629-1818 (Boston, 1879). 1642 The Proprietors' Records contain the statement that Capt. Cooke, or Mr. George Cooke, had imprimis, one dwelling-house, with mill and out-houses, with twenty acres of land; Charlestown line east, Common south, west and north, in 1642. This was outside of the town proper. Capt. George Cooke had the grant of a farm of 600 acres from the town, in the vicinity of his mill, 1640 (Paige, 42); and mention is made in a deed of the Squa-Sachem (widow of the Sagamore) and Webecowit (h
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)
ll, James Cutter, Jr., George Swan, Benjamin Cutter, Jr., John Wilson, Joel Frost, James Fillebrown. On Dec. 5, 1804, Artemas Kennedy was chosen president, Isaac Locke secretary, A. Kennedy chorister, Daniel Locke and John Perry bass assistants, Isaac Locke tenor assistant, Jason Kennedy treble assistant, James Hill treasurer. Ebenezer Rumford Thompson, school-master in West Cambridge, 1814-15, and born here March 6, 1796, refers, in a letter to Mr. J. B. Russell, of New Market, N. J., in 1879, to a visit of Jerome Bonaparte and his Bride to West Cambridge in 1804, to visit Whittemore's Card Factory. 1805 A meeting of the Precinct was held at the hall of Mr. Thomas Russell on Jan. 9, 1805—probably the hall over the store of Thomas Russell & Son, mentioned in town records in 1808. The dedication of the new meeting-house was appointed to be on Wednesday, March 20, 1805, at two P. M. The following memorandum was made on the Precinct Records: March the 20th, 1805, the dedic
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 5 (search)
of the town have been: William S. Brooks, 1812-1814; Amos Whittemore, 1818-1827; Henry Whittemore, 1831-1834; Isaac Shattuck, Jr., 1835-1839; John Fowle, 1840-1846; Edwin R. Prescott, 1847-1862; Abel R. Proctor, 1862-1868; Frederick E. Fowle, 1869-1879. Belmont (before set off as a town)—John L. Alexander, 1865-1869. Arlington Heights—Jonas M. Bailey, 1876-1877; Charles L. Howard, 1878-1879. Capt. Brooks was an ardent Federalist and a public-spirited citizen, and opened the first lumber ya1879. Capt. Brooks was an ardent Federalist and a public-spirited citizen, and opened the first lumber yard in the place, as well as a dry goods and grocery store. There were seven groceries in the town at this period, kept by William Locke, Tufts & Adams, Thomas Russell, Walter Russell, William S. Brooks and Miles Gardner, besides the Factory Store kept by William Whittemore & Co., though more business was done by Colonel Russell than by all the others combined, his store having been established before the Revolution, and having a large country trade in Lexington, Bedford, Carlisle, Billerica, &
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., V. Town of Arlington. (search)
lace during the day from Boston and elsewhere on their way to Lexington and Concord. Nathan Pratt, Esq., in 1875, left a bequest of $25,000 to the town, for a Public Library, the High School, and the Poor Widows' Fund. 1877. The town voted to erect stones to mark localities of interest connected with the battle of April 19, 1775. These have been already alluded to in the account of the battle, under the year 1775. In 1877-78 the Locke School House was built at Arlington Heights. 1879. May 30, 1879, occurred the first extensive celebration of Decoration Day in Arlington, in honor of the soldiers of the late war. The Revolutionary tablets and the Revolutionary monument were appropriately decorated, with the stones over the remains of the two Revolutionary soldiers in the old burying-ground. A procession in the afternoon moved in the following order: Chief Marshal, James A. Bailey. Aids—Maj. Robert L. Sawin Lieut. John H. Hardy, Lieut. Edmund W. Noyes. Maplewood Band
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 7 (search)
rgin, 1872, 1874-78. Henry Mott, 1873, 1878, 1879. Henry Swan, 1873. John Schouler, 1874-77William H. Allen, 1878, 1879. James A. Bailey, 1879. Assessors. Stephen Symmes, Jr., 1867. y Mott, 1872, 1873-79. B. Delmont Locke, 1873-79. Charles Schwamb, 1873. Thomas. P. Peirce, 1873-79. Town Clerks. Abel R. Proctor, 1867, 1868 (resigned). John F. Allen, 1868-74 (resi867-69 (resigned). William E. Parmenter, 1867-79—term expires 1880. Rev. J. W. Keyes, 1868-69 72. Josiah Crosby, 1868-76. Henry Swan, 1869-79—term expires 1881. Samuel G. Damon, 1869 A l876-79—term expires 1882. John P. Wyman, 1876-79. John S. Crosby, 1876-79—term expires 1882. F. V. B. Kern, 1876-79—term expires 1880. Daniel F. Jones, 1877-79—term expires 1881. Rev. Mat1881. Rev. Matthew Harkins, 1878-79—term expires 1881. Marcus Morton, 1879—term expires 1882. 1881. Rev. Matthew Harkins, 1878-79—term expires 1881. Marcus Morton, 1879—term expires 1882.
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 8 (search)
y have been:—Thomas Green, 1783-93; position of minister vacant, 1794-1818; Benjamin C. Grafton, 1818-23; John Ormsby, 1824-27; Ebenezer Nelson, 1828-34; Appleton Morse and Charles Miller, 1834-38; So given in the Arlington Baptist Church Book, but not recognized as such in the Massachusetts Registers of the time. Timothy C. Tingley, 1838-45; George J. Carleton, 1845-51; Joseph Banvard, 1851-53; Samuel B. Swaim, 1854-62; John Duncan, 1863-64; Amos Harris, 1865-75; Charles H. Spaulding, 1876-79. Universalist Society.—A Society of this denomination appears to have existed in the town as early as 1832, but without a regular established organization till Aug. 13, 1840, when it was voted to build a meeting-house, and a Society was organized under the name of the First Universalist Society in West Cambridge. The subscribers to a fund for building a Universalist meeting-house in the town of West Cambridge, who petitioned for a warrant for a parish meeting on Aug. 3, 1840, were Henr
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)
, 1834. Mr. Adams, who is the only voter of the name in Arlington in 1879, has had married daughters, but no sons]. 19. Jack, aged 6, negroformer parsonage, near where now stands the present Orthodox Church (1879). Mr. Russell has published a letter from the widow of De NeufvilGeorge B. Neal, of Charlestown, and his widow Letitia is yet living (1879). Rev. Thaddeus, D. D., s. of Jonathan Fiske and Abigail Fiske, b there a few years after.—Letter of E. R. Thompson to J. B. Russell, 1879. m. Polly Horton, 17 Sept. 1806. Ar- Temas and w. Polly were adm. Pn from 1865 to 1868, also a member of the Massachusetts Senate; now (1879) and for some years past United States Consul at Stuttgart, Germany,ttemore, Jr., 22 Apr. 1804; she was b. 31 July, 1785, and is living (1879) aged 94, in the remarkable possession of her faculties. [Rebecca, Amos the father d. 5 Aug. 1827, a. 45. His widow Rebecca is living (1879), a. 94. 18. Gershom, s. of Amos (10), had Gershom Henry, bap. 25
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., General Index. (search)
, 119; death of, and obituary, 226 Danvers men in action at Menotomy, April 19, 1775, 63, 66-71, 72, 73 Deacons chosen, 28, 37, 108, 118, 119, 124 Death, of a dwarf 39; of Rev. Thaddeus Fiske, 240; of Daniel Townsend, of Lynnfield, at Menotomy, 19 April, 1775, 71, 72; of General Washington, 108; of Hon. Charles Sumner, 164; of Jason Russell, April 19, 1775, 68-70, 74, 75; of Rev. Samuel Cooke, 101 Deaths of three members of the Winship family, 37 Decoration Day, Celebration of; 1879, 165, 166 Dedication of new meeting-house, 1806, 112, 126, 127 Deposition of Benjamin and Rachel Cooper in regard to the killing of Wyman and Winship, 74; of Hannah Bradish, 64, 196 Diary of Rev. John Marrett cited, 84, 86 District School libraries, 143 Dogs first licensed, 162 Draft of 44 men in 1863, 168 Drill Club, 158 Drowning of James Robbins, 44 Dudleian Lecture, by Rev. Mr. Cooke, 41; by Rev. Mr. Damon, 228 Earthquakes, 45, 46 Eclipse of the sun, 1757,