Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 8: civil History., page 81

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[81] Joseph Bartlett. Isaac Bacon. Jacob Bacon. Samuel Trusdale. Simon Onge. Jonathan Fuller. Jonathan Hides, senr. Thomas Parkes, senr. James Trowbridge. Noah Wiswall. Thomas Hammond. Jonathan Hides, junr. James Prentice, senr. David Meads. Vincent Drusse. John Hides. Ebenr. Wiswall. Eliah Kenrick. Sebeas Jackson. Samuel Hides, junr. Noah McDaniel. John Fuller, junr. Joshua Fuller. John Alexander. John Prentice. Nathl. Hammond. Job Hides. John Parker (east). widow Jackson. Edwd. Jackson, junr. Daniel Key. Thos. Prentice, junr. Abraham Jackson. Stephen Cooke. Richard Parks. Joseph Fuller. Isaac Beach. Peter Hanchet.¹

The historian of Newton says this petition “was no doubt drawn up by Mr. Edward Jackson, senior.” He adds a list of “Freemen in the Village who did not sign this petition,” ² namely:—

Rev. Nehemiah Hobart.
Elder Thomas Wiswall.
Dea. Samuel Hyde.
John Woodward.
Henry Segar.
Thomas Park, junr.
Daniel Bacon.
John Spring.
Daniel McCoy.
John Park.
Samuel Hyde, Son of Jona.
James Prentice, junr.
In answer to the petition of the inhabitants of Cambridge Village, on the south side of the river, the Court judgeth it meet to grant them a hearing of the case mentioned on the first Tuesday of the next session in October, and all parties concerned are ordered to have timely notice.
Mass. Col. Rec., v. 188, 189.

At the time appointed, a long protest was presented by the Selectmen of Cambridge, a part of which was printed in Jackson's “History of Newton,” pp. 53-60. Notwithstanding its length, it is here inserted in full, on account of the historical facts mentioned in it, and the picture it presents of the general condition of affairs:—

1 Mass. Arch., CXII. 250.

2 Jackson's Hist. of Newton, 50, 52.

Boston. Houghton and Mifflin. 1877.

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