Arlington Town (part 5 of 8)

When I was in my fourth year, my father's family were all taken sick, except myself, with a fever ; all recovered except my mother : but, alas ! she died ; and 0 ! how to this moment my heart aches for little children deprived of their kind, careful and prudent mother. My father, again a widower, remained so in Worcester four years ; then having an opportunity, sold his place to Dr. John Green, and bought a tavern stand in West Cambridge, near the old meeting-house, and with his children moved to his native place. Soon after he married, for a third wife, the widow Elizabeth Bowman. She had three children by her first husband, and owned a black wench and a little brat.^ By this woman my father had three children, and with my sister and myself mixed up with them made a large family, and a tavern continually filled with company of all grades - a poor place to bring up children, I guess you will say. But here was I - brought up or rather dragged up in my woolen shirt and leather breeches, and a like uniform. My father gave me what learning time and circumstances would admit, aiming at nothing more than that I might be able to do common business. He had no man's help but mine, and it kept me in constant employ.

He had at this time a place [fifty years ago it was usual to call a common farm a place] in Lexington, belonging to my mother-in-law, which he carried on and had the profits. - At this place I often went to work. The house was rented to a mechanic, wheie I used to board. When I was in my nineteenth year I was sent there in the spring to work. The woman of the house had been confined, and her nurse was Btill with her. The nurse was young, and so was I, and in the course of the week which I was to work there, often speaking to each other, we had formed a sort of acquaintance. When my week was out, not having said all I wished to, 1 asked the privilege of paying her a visit at her father's, and not being denied I was careful to pay it, which only made another to be desirable ; and being well treated by all the family, my visits were made as opportunity offered through spring, summer and fall ; and, to be short, until I was my own man [one and twenty - two full years ; and this was two or three years before the final Consummation !] By this time there was a mutual desire that we might spend our lives together ; but how could it be done ? I was poor - my partner was not rich ; and to think of going to live together in

* Gov. Hill says the possession of this accession of blacks was regarded in the light of an annoyance. It was common in those times for the more wealthy inhabitants to own slaves. They were tenderly treated and well cared for, but the boys suffered with cold in winter when exposed to out- door work, and were lazy and faithless in summer. Thomas Adams, the father, with the younger children of the third wife, about the time of the beginning of the American Bevolution, prepared to remove to his Cambridge farm at Ashburnham. As late as 1794, Mrs. Blanchard, his daughter, kept tavern in a house formerly his, in West Cambridge, on the old road to the colleges. The father of Gov. Hill removed in 1798 to Ashburnham, and the remainder of the article in the Farmer's Monthly Visitor is devoted to that place.

such circumstances was not prudent. "We concluded to live as we were until we could gain a little something to live on. I would go to work on my new lot of wilderness land which I had newly bought, and she would work where it was most to her interest.

My land was a part of Cambridge farm in Ashburnham, Mass., fifty miles from my native place. Early in the spring I took my axe on my back and set out for my new country - began to chop down the timber on two or three acres - went back - worked at Medford in the summer making bricks on shares. In the fall I again went to my land - cleared off my wood - sowed two acres of rye - returned to West Cambridge - worked through the winter making shoes with Mr. John Russell; in the spring went and disposed of my bricks - went again to my land ; my rye looked well, but had no barn, built one that summer - saved a little more - returned to Mr. Russell's in the winter. In the spring went to my land - made some provision for a house ; and in the year 1770 hit so that on the 9th of July, my partner being as ready as I was, we were married. Having provided a team to carry her furniture, and a horse for her, and another for myself, we set out for the woods. She had never seen a foot of land within forty miles of our place, but her courage held out till we got home, and then it was better than ever.

We were now where we had long wanted to be, and hoped that we with thankful hearts and contented minds should enjoy ourselves together through life. The summer, fall and winter passed away : spring came on pleasant; and the 27th of April, 1771, we had a son [John] born - an addition to our comfort : in '73, another son Levi; in '75, a daughter Joanna ; in '77, another son Jonas; in '79, another son James; in '81, another daughter Rebecca; in '83, another son AValter Russell; in '85, another daughter Betsey; in '88, another daughter Polly : all well, and in time all grew old enough and married ; and my wife and myself left alone as at first. I invited one son to come and live with me : time passed on until we had been mai'ried fifty-three years. She was taken sick, and, alas, she died. And here, my dear friend, I find a period to my earthly happiness. I have kind children and friends ; but my bosom friend sleeps in the grave, and earth cannot heal the wound.

I have many things in regard to your grandmother and family I want to write, but my sheet is full. Dear sir, accept this broken scroll from your sincere friend,

1848. The Hon. James Russell, in behalf of the committee for erecting a monument over the grave of the Revolutionary heroes in the old cemetery in the town, submitted a report, which is entered at length on the town records. An account of this monument has already been given elsewhere (see p. 70).

The expense of its erection was $460.67, toward which the voluntary contributions of inhabitants of West Cambridge were $360.67, and the donation of Hon. P. C. Brooks, of Medford, was $100.

Tornado of Aug. 22, 1851. - A little work of 72 pages, entitled "The Tornado of 1851, in Medford, West Cambridge and Waltham, Middlesex County, Mass., being a report by Rev. Charles Brooks, and reports by other committees," contains an extended account of this destructive tempest, its general characteristics and particular incidents, relating principally to Medford, The proceedings at a meeting of the citizens of West Cambridge, holden at the vestry of the Unitarian Church, on the evening of August 25, three days after the tornado, at the request of the selectmen, are given in the work. Mansur W. Marsh, chairman of that board, was appointed president, and Moses Proctor, secretary. After remarks by the Hon. James Russell, resolutions appropriate to the occasion were adopted, and a committee was chosen to solicit subscriptions in aid of sufferers, and another committee to make an appraisement of the damages sustained. A committee was also appointed to make a distribution of the moneys collected by subscription, " not in proportion to losses sustained^ but in proportion to the necessities of the respective sufferers." The report on appraisement, a copy of the subscription paper circulated, and the amount distributed in the town, appear in full in the work. Mr. Marsh, president of the meeting in West Cambridge, contributed a brief account of the storm in relation to Waltham.

The destruction by this tornado began at the foot of ProsiDCct Hill, in Waltham. The course of the storm was from west to east. The section of its course through West Cambridge was marked with the greatest destruction. It extended across the Mystic River, and entered Medford with unabated force, and continued to the end of its track. The tornado carried up into the air, men, animals and other objects, unroofed and destroyed houses, twisted trees, shifted houses around, throwing half of the roof of a house in one direction and the other half in the opposite. A railroad car at Medford was rolled along the track IGO feet, and then taken and carried sixty feet from the track. In regard to its power, " They who, like us," says Rev. C. Brooks, " were in it, and have seen its terrible ravages, need not be told that it exhibited a power in the elements never witnessed by the oldest inhabitant of this region. Houses strongly built were demolished as if the}' had been made of paper, oak and walnut and cedar trees of the largest growth were entirelj' uprooted, some of them snatched out of the ground and carried through long distances, roofs of buildings taken up as if by sudden suction, and carried into the embrace of the cloud and transported for miles. Its action upon the grass and corn was remarkable. It not only prostrated them, but partly buried them in the earth. The fields in this respect looked as if a heavy roller had passed over them." Various individuals were more or less injured in body - seven are specified, all belonging to Medford. One (Thomas Huffmaster) lost his life, while occupied in closing his house against the storm ; he was taken up insensible and died in about thirty hours. In Waltham the house of the high-school master had the windows broken on one side, and the supper which was on the table thrown into an opposite corner of the room. Here a man was lifted up and set down fifty yards off without particular injury. A woman was lifted by the wind in a like manner at Medford.

In West Cambridge stood a house whose roof on the north side was thrown into the house, while the roof on the south side and the back building south of the house were completely blowu away. In another place two houses were left uninjured, and one between them was carried away. In the most northerly of the two remaining houses, a board one foot broad and one inch thick was driven through the wall, which was of boards, double, with an air space between. In the same room (Henry Whittemore's) a glass door was pierced with a circular hole little over an inch in diameter, probably done by a pebble, which pierced a white cloth curtain hung on the door, and the edges of the hole in the glass appeared melted into roundness by the blow. A granite gate post, seven feet high and one and a quarter feet square, planted three feet in the ground, and standing between the destroyed house and one of those uninjured, was struck by the vortex of the storm and bent about four inches out of position.

A parallel storm occurred at Woburn on the same afternoon of the "West Cambridge tornado, but smaller and less destructive. - See Storms, by William Blasius, Phila.

In relation to the damages and losses by the tornado in West Cambridge, as per report on appraisement, Ave have only room for the names and amounts, viz.: James Brown, $805; Stephen Fogg (tenant of Brown), $250; George A. Locke, $1G0; Josiah L. Frost, $320;

The amount of money distributed, subscribed by citizens of the town, for the sufferers in West Cambridge, was $1,219.60. One person gave $150; seven persons gave $50 each; others $30, and lesser amounts.

1852. Town House built. The committee with full power to select a suitable location and erect thereon a town house, were Jesse Bucknam, Samuel Butterfield, William Hill, 2d, John Schouler and George C. Russell.'

The Union Grammar School District was formed, and the Union District divided into three primary school districts, the primary schools established to be taught by female teachers.

1 Busts and other ornaments to decorate the town hall, were presented to the town, in 1853, by Nathan Robbins, J. S. Potter, D. W. Horton, Joshvia Dodge, Robert Schouler, Jesse Bucknam, George C. Russell and John Schouler. The near the town house was bricked up and a pump placed therein in 18-53. The lockup in basement of town-house was built in 1859. A pair of ox-horns were given by Stephen P. Blake to the town, and placed over the principal door to the town hall in 1860.

In 1853 the town voted thanks to Luke Agur for the efficient manner in which he had performed the duties of constable in years past, and John B. Hartwell was chosen to that office.

1854. The West Cambridge Gas Light Company was incorporated March 81, 1854, and the company allowed to lay pipes for gas through the streets of the town.

A legacy of $100 was received this year by the town for the Ijenefit of the Juvenile Library, by will of the late Dr. Timothj^ Wellington. In resjjonse to the gift, the town passed resolutions which are entered at length on the town records. In these it is said that " the life and character of Dr. Wellington had become public property in the town long before the summons which called him hence " - " that the whole people loved and revered him, and although he lived to a good old age, his death has been, and now is, most deeply de plored and lamented."

1856. The town voted to furnish a clock to be placed in the tower of the new meeting-house, now proposed to be built by the First Congregational Parish of West Cambridge, provided said parish will take charge of the same and keep it in repair.

1860. A school house for the Centre District was erected on a lot on Medford Street, formerly belonging to heirs of James Russell, and named the Russell School House. The Hon. James Russell presented to the town a bell, to be placed in the cupola of said school-house, and Col. Thomas Russell presented a clock to be placed in the large grammar school-room of said house.

1861. There was a public meeting in the Town Hall on Sunday evening, April 21, 1861, at which the inhabitants of West Cambridge and many from Belmont assembled. A president, vice-presidents and secretaries were chosen, and resolu- tions passed referring to the distracted condition of the country, upholding the lawfully constituted authorities of the nation, applauding those young men of the town who had been the first to enlist as a military corps, and requesting the call of a town meeting to appropriate tlie sum of $10,000 in aid of the families of the soldiers from the town. The proceedings of this meeting are carefully entered in full on the town records. A townmeeting was accordingly held April 29, 1861, and the following preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted :

'' Whereas our country is now rent with civil discord, and the Federal Government has called upon the loyal states of our Union for military aid to suppress rebellion against lawful authority, and to uphold the Constitution and the Laws, and whereas it is expedient in our municipal as well as in our personal relations as good citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, to use all means in our power to strengthen the arm of Government to the end that Peace and the Supremacy of Law may be restored - Therefore, on motion, voted that this town do appropriate the sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as is necessary for the purpose expressed in Article Second ;" that is, for the maintenance and support of those families whose husbands, fathers or brothers, belonging to this town, have enlisted or may hereafter enlist in the military service of their country during the term of such service, the same to be expended under the direction of the selectmen.

The following recommendations were also adopted : That a bounty of ten dollars be paid to every soldier who shall be duly enrolled and accepted by the State. That every married man or any man having a family dependent on him for support, be paid the sum of twelve dollars per month, during the term of three months from the time of his enrolment and acceptance, unless sooner discharged. The balance of the company to be paid each the sum of six dollars per month, during the term of three months from the time of their enrolment and acceptance, unless sooner discharged. That all unexpended balance of subscription money remaining in the hands of the selectmen after equipping the company, be at the disposal of the selectmen of the towns of West Cambridge and Belmont, for the benefit of the soldiers or their families of said towns.

A company of infantry numbering eighty-two men, under the command of Captain Albert S. Ingalls, was organized and equipped as the result of these measures, and awaited a call to service. At the end of several weeks it proceeded to Brooklyn, N. Y., in the expectation of joining a regiment, but being disappointed the company returned. Thirty-two members of the corps, with Capt. Ingalls, immediately re-visited New York and were incorporated into the 40th Regiment of New York Volunteers.' W. H. Pattee, James A. Bailey, Alfred M. Thorpe, and Daniel Bennem, citizens of the town, were connected with the 5th Regiment Mass. Militia, and accompanied the regiment into immediate service.

1862. A public meeting was held Feb. 22, 1862, in response to the proclamation of the President of the United States, to listen to tiie reading of Washington's Farewell Address. A particular account of the meeting was entered on the town records.

The schools of the town at this time were the Northwest Grammar* Intermediate and Primary » the Russell Grammar, Intermediate and Primary; and the East District School.

July 22, 1862, in obedience to a call for soldiers for three years, the selectmen were authorized to offer and pay in addition' to the United States bounty and State Aid, the sum of $125 to each and every volunteer that may offer, to the number of thirty-one ; the bounty to be paid when the men were sworn into the United States service, - the selectmen and four others to act as a recruiting committee. The town's quota was thirty-three, and that number was furnished at a cost of $4,060.63.'

3 At this meeting, July 22, 1862, the town passed resolves, which were placed on the town records, tendering their kindest symjiathy to Major Albert S. Ingalls, in hospital at Annapolis, Md., who had recently lost a limb on the field of battle before Richmond. Also, of greeting to Lieut. Francis Gould, Lieut. John Locke, Lieut. Charles H. GraA'es, and others, " our friends and neighbors," now resting on their laurels near the field of battle before Richmond. At the same meeting, Thomas Braslin, a member of the West Cambridge company, having a furlough in consequence of a Avound received at the battle of Fair Oaks, being present, Avas called upon to address the meeting, and responded in a speech full of patriotism. A collection Avas taken up for him, amounting to $44.27.

Albert S. Ingalls, born in Rindge, N. H., Dec. 29, 1830, was a lawyer, and removed from Fitchburg to West Cambridge in 18-59. The quota of Massachusetts being full, his company and himself offered their services to the State of NcAv York, and were mustered into the 40th Regiment of N.Y. Vols, (known as the ^lozart Regiment), Avhich joined the army in Virginia. After the battle of Williamsburg he Avas promoted major of the regiment, and during the fighting before Richmond received a Avound on Jime 30, 1862, by which he lost a leg and eA'entually his life. He was removed to Annapolis, Md., where he died Aug. 11, 1862. His remains were first brought to AVest Cambridge, where they were received bv the tOAvn authorities and citizens Avith every demonstration of respect^ 15*

The selectmen were authorized, Aug. 25, 1862, to pay a bounty of $200 to each volunteer for nine naonths in the Army of the United States, residents of this town, the bounty to be joaid as soon as they are sworn and mustered into service. At the same meeting $10,000 was approj^j-iated for the above pui'pose of paying bounties to volunteers in the nine-months service of the Army of the United States. The town's quota of fifty-four men for nine months (Aug. 25) was supplied at a cost for bounties of $J 0,800, all being citizens of the town. - Report of Military Expenditures.

Dec. 8, 1862. Raising as speedily as jaossible the number of men assigned by the Governor of the Commonwealth as the quota of the town of West Cambridge in the nine-months service, is attended to, preference being given to three-years men in respect to bounties, an appropriation being made thei-efor. Dec. 26. - On a call for twentysix men for nine months, the town furnished that number to serve for three years, at a cost of $3,380. - Report of Military Expenditures.

July 1, 1863, a di'aft of forty-four men from the town was ordered and made; of this number ten were accepted, who paid the commutation authorized by law of $300 each.

1864. The town voted to establish a High School, and the selectmen were authorized to purchase of the proprietors of the Cotting Academy their building, furniture and land. The school was opened in the December following.

Feb. 1, 1864. Forty-sis men called for and furnished for the war - cost, $6,900, raised by subscription among the citizens of the town. March 14. - Eighteen men furnished, the cost $2,692, raised in like manner by subscription.* and then conveyed to Fitchburg, and thence to Rindge, N. H., where his funeral took place. - See History of Rindge, N. H., for an extended sketch.

1 The foUoAving resolve was adopted April 4, 1864 : - " Whereas Washington J. Lane, Esq,, has signified to the town that on account of the state of his health

1865. In town meeting April 3, 1865, it was voted that the superintendent of the Town Hall cause the same to be illuminated this evening, in honor of the glorious news of the capture of Richmond.

From July 18, 1864, to March 1, 1865, fifty-three men were called for the war, but the town exceeded the call and furnished sixty-four. Cost to town, 1510,976.10, with $7,824 additional subscribed by citizens. In this number, eleven substitutes were included, furnished at a cost of $4,500. The following summary shows the amount contributed by the town during the war : -

1866. The town voted to accept the lot of land donated by the late Hon. James Russell for a public walk or common, on the conditions named by the donor in his will devising the same. It was named Russell Park in 1867.

he is compelled to decline a re-election to offices for which at a recent meeting of the citizens he was nominated by acclamatior, it is therefore resolved that the citizens of the town entertain a grateful appreciation of the valuable services of their townsman Mr. Lane, in the important o.'^ces he has held through twelve successive years ; and while the}' sympathize v ith him in the cause of his withdrawal, earnestly hope that renewed health may restore him to the public trusts he has so uprightly and ably fulfilled." Mr. Lane died August 6, 1864, aged 57.

* The women of West Cambridge early in the war formed an association for the preparation and transmission of articles needful to wounded and disabled soldiers. The sum above-mentioned was collected by them from a variety of sources, and was used to purchase material to be converted by their forethought and industry into the means of relief and comfort to those who were suflering in the field. Three gentlemen contributed the sum of $570 in aid of recruiting ; and the two physicians of the town, Drs. Hodgdon and Harris, tendered their professional aid to soldiers' families gratis, during their term of service.

Among those who lost their lives in connection with the war, was the Rev. Samuel Abbot Smith. He was born April 18, 1829, grad. H. U. 1849, prepared for the ministry at Cambridge Divinity School, and settled over the Unitarian Society in Arlington June 27, 1854, where he remained till his death. He died of a malarious fever contracted at Norfolk, Va., Avhere he had gone on missionary service to the armj-. He returned Avith the fever upon him, and died ^May 20, I860, aged 36 years. His death was greatly regretted.

A volume entitled Christian Lessons and a Christian Life, containing an extended biography and numerous extracts from his writings, was published by Prof. E. J, Young. See portrait and sketch in .the History of Peterbo7-our/h, N.H.

1867. Town accepted the flag-stafif standing at the corner of Main and Pleasant Streets, and the flag donated by Benjamin Poland and others. The name of West Cambridge was changed to Arlin2;ton.

The name of Arlington, which was now given to the town, had no previous historical significance in the place. It is a purely distinctive appellation, and was deemed a good post-office designation, unlikely to be confounded with the various adjacent localities in Cambridge.

" I hope the name of the town will never be changed. It would be like giving up our birthright. As the Second Precinct of Cambridge, we hold an honorable place in history ; who would alienate that inheritance? Other names maybe more euphonious, but as soon should the man give up his surname, consecrated by the good acts, and glorified by the patriotism of i3ious and brave ancestors, as we give up that good old name of Cambridge, with which our village was baptized in blood on the nineteenth of April."

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A preliminary celebration of the change in the name of the town, was made on May 1, 1867, by a salute of one hundred guns, the ringing of bells and a general display of the national colors. A mass meeting was held in the evening at the Town Hall, where music was furnished by the Arlington Band, and addresses by prominent citizens were made.

A more formal demonstration was held on June 17, 1867, carried out in fine style, and in most respects according to a published programme. Appropriate decorations were placed throughout the town, the bells were rung at sunrise, and flags on the public staffs and private residences were unfurled for the day. A cavalcade of citizens received the invited guests, including the governor of the State and other functionaries, escorted by the National Lancers, at eleven o'clock, at the entrance of the town a few rods beyond Alewife Brook, and piloted them to the centre of the town, where a salute was fired by a section of a State battery. A procession, under the marshalship of Addison Gage, Esq., was formed, comprising mounted police, bands, the National Lancers, civil officers of the town and state, the legislature, masonic organizations, soldiers of 1812 and the late war, children of the public schools, representation of trades, citizens in carriages, and a cavalcade, in all over a mile and a half in length. It passed through the principal streets, and a collation was afterward partaken of by the school children in a large tent on the common near the Unitarian Church, and by the invited guests in a mammoth tent on the grounds of J. R. Bailey, Esq., on Pleasant Street. Dinner was prepared by J. B. Smith, and speeches were made by Governor Bullock, the Hon. Charles Sumner, Richard H. Dana, Jr., Generals Foster and Osborne, and Commodore Rodgers and General Banks of the late war. A poem, written by Mr. J. T. Trowbridge of Arlington for the occasion, was read by Prof. M. T. Brown. The celebration closed with a regatta of Harvard students on the lake.

" In coming here to take part in this interesting celebration, I am not insensible to the kindness of good friends among you, through whom the invitation was received. But I confess a neighborly interest in your festival. Born in Boston, and educated in Cambridge, I am one of your neighbors. Acce2)t, then, if you please, the sympathies of a neighbor on this occasion.

" Yours is not a large town ; nor has it any considerable history. But what it wants in size and history, it makes up in beauty. Yours is a beautiful town. I know nothing among the exquisite surroundings of Boston more charming than these slopes and meadows, with the back-ground of hills and the gleam of water. The elements of beauty are all here. Hills are always beautiful ; so is water. I remember hearing Mrs. Fanny Kemble say more than once that water in a landscape is ' like eyes in the human countenance,' without which the countenance is lifeless. But you have water in abundance, gleaming, shining, sparkling in your landscape. The water-nymphs might find a home here. You have gardens also beautiful to the eye and beautiful in their nourishing and luscious supplies. Surely it may be said of those who live here, that their lines have fallen in a pleasant place.

" I go too far when I suggest that you are without a history. West Cambridge was a part of that historic Cambridge which was so early famous in our country, the seat of learning and the home of patriotism. The honor of Cambridge is yours." After allusions to the times of the Revolution, Mr. Sumner continued :

"Many years ago, when I first read the account of this period by one of the early biographers of Washington, Rev. Dr. Bancroft of Worcester, the father of our distinguished historian, I was struck by the statement that ' in case of attack and defeat, the Welsh Mountains in Cambridge and the rear of the lines in Roxbury were appointed as places of rendezvous.' - The Welsh Mountains ' are the hills which skirt your peaceful valley. Since then I have never looked upon those hills, even at a distance - I have never thought of them - without feeling that they are monumental. They testify to that perfect prudence which made our commander-in-chief so great. In those hours, when vmdiscijilined patriots were preparing for conflict with the trained soldiers of England, the careful eye of Washington calmly surveying the whole horizon, selected your hills as the breast-work behind which he was to retrieve the day. The hills still stand firm and everlasting as when he looked upon them, but smiling now with fertility and peace." ^

* " The Welsh Mountains near Cambridge, and the rear of the lines at Roxbury, were designated for that purpose." - Marshall's Washington, vol. ii. p. 230. - Memorandum made by Dr. Benjamin Cutter many years since (died 1864).

tioa to the town, over $300,000. The source of supply is an artificial reservoir located near by in Lexington, which receives the waters of 1 73 acres, embracing the area known as the Great Meadows in that town.

1872. The town established its public library - transferring the Juvenile Library (established 1835) to it, to be known as the Arlington Public Library.

In March, 1872, the town clock in the tower of the Unitarian meeting-house having been destroyed by the falling of the steeple of that house in a gale, in Aug. 1871, the town voted to place a new town clock in the tower of the edifice when said tower was re-built.^

In 1872-73 the town erected the large brick Russell School House, at a cost of $57,911.04 and $713 for additional land, to replace the former school-house which had been burned in 1872.

Arlington Heights, formerly known as Circle Hill, has always been noted for fine scenery, and for the magnificent views, from the summit of the hill, of the city and harbor of Boston, and the numerous towns and cities adjoining.

In 1872, an Association, composed mostly of gentlemen doing business in Boston, purchased several hundred acres of land at this place, with a view to build up a village as a place of residence for themselves and othei's similarly situated. Slany previous attempts had been made to furnish homes outside the city for its business men, but none had been entirely successful, the prime requisites for such a place being, good facilities for getting to and from the city, pure air and water, good soil and drainage, beautiful natural scenery and surround-

1 Sunday evening, Aug. 27, 1871, about 11 o'clock, a violent gust or tornado came up suddenly from the Avest and blew down the spire of the church edifice of the First Congregational Parish, throwing to the ground the bell and clock. The bell was uninjured, but the clock was badly injured, and the dials were broken. The spire of the Orthodox Church was also blown down, together with its bell, which was uninjured. The Baptist Church edifice, which for several weeks previous had been undergoing thorough repairs, then nearly completed, was injured by the Avind, and the plastering on the walls and ceiling was thrown down and badly cracked. Throughout the town many chimneys were blown down and some beautiful trees uprooted or broken down. The loss in the town amounted to $25,000 to $30,000^ - Statement from First Parish Records.

ings, and an unexceptionable neighborhood. All these advantages were possessed by Arlington Heights, and under the auspices of the Association vast improvements have already been made, notwithstandino- that the enormous shrinkage in value of real estate in the mean time precluded the possibility of financial success.

The principal highway, 80 feet in width, called Park Avenue, built by the Association, from the Lexington and Arlington Railroad to the top of the hill, was, in 1874, extended by the County Commissioners to Belmont, and made a county road, and is perhaps the finest street ever constructed under similar auspices in this section of the country. Several members of the Association have built homes for themselves in the village ; among others, Hon. Oliver Warner, Moses Fairbanks, F. V. B. Kern, and George R. Dwelley, Esqs., also Mr. J. T. White, under whose direction and superintendence nearly all the improvements have been made.

The village now, 1878, contains about 60 houses - many of which are the best models of exterior beauty and interior comfort and convenience to be found in any houses of the class in the country - and some 250 inhabitants. There is but little local trade or manufacture carried on, most of the residents doing business in Boston.'

1875. The town made preparations, by appropriation and otherwise, for the celebration of the 19th of April, in this year, in conjunction with the Centennial Celebrations of the Battle of Concord and Lexington; which battle, in 1775, became a continuous one through the precincts of this town on the memorable 1 9th of April of that year. The day was accordingly observed as a holiday by the people of Arlington, and delegates from the town attended the celebrations which simultaneously took place in the neighboring towns. Immense throngs of people passed through the place during the day from Boston and elsewhere on their way to Lexington and Concord.

1 A small pamphlet, entitled " A Short Account of the Location and Prospects of the New Village at Arlington Heights, showing its advantages as a home for people doing business in Boston," was published by the Arlington Land Company, No. 84 Washington St., Boston.

The land in the last century belonged in part to the estate of Bev. Dr. Nathaniel Appleton, of Cambridge First Parish, Samuel and Francis Locke, and Ephraim Cooke, victualler. See sketch entitled " Our Predecessors," in paper called Our Enterprise, published at Arlington Heights, April 10, 1878

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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.

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 buryingground. A procession in the afternoon moved in the following order :

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After the exercises in the Town Hall, the procession passed through several of the principal streets, and thence to the cemeteries, where each grave of a soldier of the war was generously decorated with flowers, in accordance with the custom throughout the country.

Dea. Joseph Adams,l762-67 - thanked, 1767, treasurer five years. Continued in office, 1768-81. Li 1788 compensation was allowed him for 19 years' service as Treasurer.

* Feb. 2, 1746-7, Jonathan Butterfield was chosen Assessor in place of Capt. Carteret, who from sickness was prevented from serving in that office.

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* Josiah Crosby, Henry Swan and Samuel G. Damon, elected by West Cambridge, continued in office after the name of the town was changed to Arlington, their terms being unexpired.

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1840. Former meetiiig-house taken down, and a new meeting-house built on the same site. The parish committee were empowered to let the vestry for holding meetings, to the citizens of the town. It was voted that the vestry be called and known by the name of Parish Hall.

1843, Dec. 7. Rev. William Ware invited to settle as minister. On Aug. 11, 1845, a communication was received from Mr. Ware resigning his office as pastor of the Society.

1848, Aug. 15. James Francis Brown received a call to settle over this parish as their gospel minister. On Nov. 1, 1848, he was ordained. He died at Springfield, Mass., June 14, 1853, aged 33, and in the fifth year of his ministry at West Cambridge. Funeral, June 15th, from the meeting-house in West Cambridge.'

1854, March 13. Samuel Abbot Smith invited as pastor. Ordained June 22, 1854. He died in West Cambridge, May 20, 1865, aged 36, and in the eleventh year of his ministry.

1871. The steeiDle of the edifice belonging to this Society was blown down by a gale. A new spire was erected similar to the one blown down, and of the same dimensions, in 1872.

A Congregational Unitarian Society was established at Belmont, before that neighborhood was set off as a town, of which Amos Smith was minister, 1858-59.

1 James Francis Brown, ordained as the Cliristian minister of the First Congregational Parish in West Cambridge on Nov. 1, 1848, was born in Boston, Jan. 4, 1820. A stone was erected at his grave in Mount Pleasant Cemetery by the Sunday School and friends who were desirous thus to testify their grateful attachment to the memory of their deceased pastor. A sermon preached at "West Cambridge on the Sabbath after the death of Mr. Brown, by Rev. Nathaniel Hall, of Dorchester, who officiated at his funeral, by vote of the parish was published. Text, John 17 : 4. A work of 96 pages, entitled " The Children's

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Baptist Society. - Meetings of persons friendly to sentiments of this denomination were held in this place as early as the year 1773.' The earliest known records of the society are dated Sept. 4, 1780, when " a number of the Baptist Society in Cambridge met at Stephen Robbins's to have some discourse about sending a letter to the Association^ to inform them of our circumstances and to desire their prayers for us." This letter was signed by Thomas Williams, John Williams and Stephen Robbins. A compact of six articles, drawn by a committee, of which Capt. Benjamin Locke was chairman, was agreed upon Dec. 15,

1780, by Thomas Williams and thirty-eight others, four of whom only were religious professors. The design was to unite those who were friends of the cause, understanding its merits, and actuated by worthy motives. The first parish meeting was held March 6, 1781, and measures were taken to provide a place of worship, which resulted in the purchase of '' Capt. Locke's house for a hundred dollars silver." A meeting was held June 4,

1781, of persons desirous of forming a church. This was duly recognized July 5, following, by a council. In Sept. 1781, the church w^iS received, with twenty-seven members, John Williams delegate, into the Warren Association, assembled at Brimfield. Mr. Thomas Green was appointed by the Association to " preach at Cambridge, the third Lord's day in November," and was engaged by the Society in July, 1782, to preach six weeks or two mouths on probation, but continued in that service over a year, when the Society at length concurred with the church in calling him as the regular pastor.

His ordination occurred Nov. 26, 1783. In 1790 an arrangement was made with Mr. Green to preacli once a mouth in Woburn. The Woburn members of this Society in that year amounted to tweuty-two.-

Gift" (Boston, 1854), printed expressly for the children of his Sunday School, in accordance with his -wish, contains a number of his writings.

1 For this sketch we are indebted to a History of the Baptist Church in Arlington, mainly written by Dr. SAvaim, and published in the Arlington Baptist Chm-ch Book. The writer of that sketch quotes Backus's History to the eflfect that a Baptist church existed in Cambridge as early as 1751.

was altered to the " Cambridge and Woburn Baptist Church." The Woburn branch of the church gained more rapidly than the mother church; a new meeting-house was built in Woburn in 1794, and the organization became known solely as the " Woburn Baptist Church." In 1790 the society here had purchased " a spot five rods square " of Ephraim Cooke, and erected a house of worship, now occupied as a dwelluig-house, and situated at the east corner of Brattle Street. Here meetings were held more or less frequently as preaching could be obtained, and the pai'ish organization was continued until greater encouragement offered. Stephen Cutter, by will dated March 4, 1816, left a legacy to the Society of $5,000, to be paid at the death of his wife Mary Cutter. She generously relinquished nearly one-half, eighteen years before the time, and by her will, dated Sept. 2, 1834, added in land and money, save a few small legacies, her whole estate, all amounting to $11,375.24, including the present commodiovxs parsonage. An act of incorporation of the Society was obtained Dec. 14, 1816, and on Nov. 20, 1817, twenty-two persons, mostly connected with the existing church at Woburn, were by a council constituted the West Cambridge Baptist Church.'

On Sept. 9, 1 828, a new meeting-house was dedicated in the present locality on land given by Mary Cutter. The Sabbath School was organized Oct. 21, 1828. A new and more commodious church edifice was dedicated March 31, 1853. The house is of the Gothic style of architecture, and was erected at the cost of $15,000, including an organ and other appurtenances. It was subjected to extensive repairs about 1871, at an expense of over $11,000.

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 voted to build a meeting-house, and a Society was organized under the name of the First Universalist Society in

1 The names of the original members of the church, formed Nov. 20, 1817, -were Daniel Brooks, Mary Cutter, Elizabeth Williams, Abigail Robbins, Deliverance Winship, Lydia Jones, Simeon Harrington, William Symmes, Nathan Russell, Jr., Seth Reed, Charles Mackintire, Martha Frost, Thomas H. Teel, Eliza Frost, Sally Putnam, Lucy Tufts, Leonard Cox, Susanna Crosby, Bathsheba Brooks, Rachel Dickson, Hannah Estabrook, Daniel Crouch. 22.

West Cambridge/ The meeting-house was accordingly built in 1840, and dedicated on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 1841. On Feb. 21, 1848, the Society voted to petition the General Court for an act of incorporation.

The first regular minister was the Eev. J. C. Waldo, whose term of service commenced on the first Sabbath after March 15, 1841, On April 1 2, following, the Society voted that he be installed. He remained as minister till 1847. On Sept. 20, of that year, the Rev. Willard Spaulding was invited as pastor ; and he was followed by the Rev. Oeorge Hill, who was first engaged to supply the pulpit on Aug. 27,

1850. After a ten-years' pamorate his resignation was accepted Jan. 16, 1860. He was succeeded by the Rev. William E. Gibbs, who was invited to become pastor on May 28, 1860. Mr. Gibbs remained minister until Oct. 1, 1866, when his resignation took effect, and he was followed by Rev. J. W. Keyes, who was invited Dec. 7, 1866. On Aug. 30, 1869, the resignation of Mr. Keyes was accepted, to take effect Oct. 1, that year. Rev. William H. Ryder was invited March 20, 1871. He resigned May 20, 1873. The present minister is the Rev. William F. Potter, who began to preach to the Society on the first Sunday in July, 1876.'

Orthodox Congregational Society. - On the evening of June 8, 1842, several members of Orthodox churches, residing in West Cambridge and its vicinity, met at the residence of Miss Anna Bradshaw, for religious worship. Miss Bradshaw, the grand-daughter of the Rev. Samuel Cooke, the first minister of the Old Parish of the town (1739-1783), resided in the old parsonage of her grandfatlier on Pleasant Street, next the burying-ground. The Rev. Dr. Albro, of Cambridge, was present on the above evening, and addressed the meeting. A weekly meeting for conference and prayer was at this time established. July 10, following, a sermon was preached under a large tent, erected on the grounds of Miss A. Bradshaw, for the celebration of national independence. An appointment was made for

^^The " subscribers to a fund for building a Universalist meeting-house in the toiftTi of West Cambridge," Avho petitioned for a "^'arrant for a parish meeting on Aug. 3, 18-iO, were Henry Frost, Jefferson Cutter, Joseph Locke, William L. Clark, Francis Russell, AVilliam AVhittemore, Ammi C. Teel, Kimball Farmer, John Fowle, John Jarvis, Jesse P. Pattee, Josiah H. Russell, and Moses Bacon, clerk.

preaching on the ensuing Sabbath at Miss Bradshaw's house. Services were held in the meeting-house of the Baptist Society four Sabbath evenings, and a hall was afterward used as a place of worship, Nov. 20, 1842, a meeting was held at a private house to consider the expediency of forming a church, and it was unanimously voted expedient to organize an Orthodox Congregational Church in West Cambridge. A council for the pur pose was held Dec. 14, 1842, and the public services of the organization were held in the Baptist Church. Nov. 29, 1844, the Society dedicated its raeeting-lrouse ; the lot on which it stands being the generous gift of Miss Anna Bradshaw. The house, after being repaired and enlarged at an expense equalling its original cost, was re-opened for worship on Nov. 15 1857.' The ministers of this Society have been : -

^ John Field went to Boston from Peterborough, N. H., in 1831, and engaged in the hide and leather business under the firm of Field & Converse, in which he was eminently successful. He died July 31, 1876, aged 66. See portrait and sketch in History of Peterborough, N. H. He was remarkable for his systematic generosity to benevolent objects. He quietly gave his name and his influence to every good word and work.

Rev. Daniel R. Cady, D.D., d. at Westboro', May 17, 1879. He was born in Malta, Saratoga Co., N.Y., Oct. 8, 1813, and graduated at Williams College in 1838. After studying and practising law two years, he studied for the ministry, and graduated at Andover in 1845. He was ordained at Rutland, Mass., the same year, and preached there four years ; was then settled in Westboro,' and remained there from 1849 to 1856 ; then settled in Arlington till 1877, then returned and passed the remainder of his life in Westboro' . He was a man of sound -judgment and lovely Christian spirit, careful in his statements, never speaking ill of people, and slow to believe aught against any. He was also a man of .thorough culture and a good preacher.

St. Malachy's Church (Roman Catholic). - Tlie Catholics of Arlington formerly attended divine service in St. Peter's Church, Cambridge. In the year 1869 their increasing number induced the Rev. M. P. Dougherty, pastor of that Church, to organize an independent congregation and build a church edifice for Arlington. This building was used for the first time on Christmas day, 1870. It was not, however, formally dedicated until September, 1874, when it received the title of St. Malachy. Rev. Mr. Dougherty retained charge of the new parish until January 1st, 1873, when the Rev. J. M. Finotti was appointed to succeed him. Under his administration a parochial residence was purchased, and various improvements made in the church. He was assisted by Revs. J. B. Galvin and M. D. Murphy. Continued ill health obliged him in April, 1876, to resign his charge.* The present pastor is Rev. M. Harkins, who is assisted by Rev. J. J. O'Brien.*

The Methodist Society. - About 1872, a Society of this denomination was formed, and has since held religious services in various halls in the town. Rev. J. W. Owens was their first minister. At present, most of the congregation attend worship at a church in West Medford.

St. John's Church (Episcopal). - In 1875 religious services were first held in Arlington in conformity to the Liturgy of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States. Eiforts were soon made to erect a chapel, which has since been completed. A parish has been organized, and now awaits admission into union with the Convention of the Diocese of Massachusetts. The Rev. D. G. Haskins, S.T.D., is the officiating Rector.

* Mr. Finotti, a native of Italy, "was the author of a Bibliographia Catholica Americana, or a list of works written by Catholic Authors and published in the United States. See N. E. Hist. Gen. Register, xxvii. 438.

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(1) A Church Book given to the Second Church in Cambridge by the Rev. Samuel Cooke, pastor. This book has a list of the members admitted at the gathering of the church 9 Sept. 1739 - the admissions to full communion by the church - the admissions to the church by the Rev. Thaddeus Fiske - the members of the Northwest Precinct Church regularly dismissed - the names of those who owned their covenant duriiig Mr. Cooke's ministry, also those during the ministry of Mr. Fiske - and other records relating to the church.

(2) Scattered records of births, baptisms, marriages and deaths in the Northwest Precinct in Cambridge, which included a portion of the upper part of Charlestown afterward annexed to West Cambridge, now Arlington, kept in diaries or other records by the Rev. Samuel Cooke, pastor of the church, with the record of baptisms, marriages, deaths or bm-ials in the same Precinct kept by the Rev. Thaddeus Fiske - and the baptisms, marriages and deaths in West Cambridge recorded by the Rev. D. Damon.

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Abbkeviatioxs used : - Adm. refers to admissions to the eliureh ; o. c, " owned their covenant" - a sort of half-way membership of the church, not an admission to full communion ; dism. refers to regular dismissions by the church. Births, baptisms, deaths and marriages are referred to by the usual abbreviations of b. birth, bap. baptism, d. death, m. marriage; g. s. signifies gravestone - generally in the ancient Precinct burying- ground. Such abbreviations as f. for father, s. for son, w, for wife, dau. for daughter. Pet. for Precinct, ch, for church, fun. for funeral, wid. for widow, Camb.for Cambridge, Chas. for Charles - town, and others that might be mentioned, will readily explain themselves.

1751, m. Nathan Tufts, of Charlestown, 6 June, 1751 (she m. second, Richard Clark of Watertowu). See Wyman's Charlestoton Genealogies and Estates, p. 6, &c.

2. Thomas, s. of Joseph (1), m. Anna, dau. of Ephraim Frost, 22 Sept. 1737. She d. 6 Oct. 1740, at Worcester, where he had removed, having had Joseph, d. 6 Oct. 1740, same time with mother, and buried in same cofRn. He m. second, Lydia, dau. of John Chadwick of Wore, who d. there in 1748. He returned to Cambridge, and m. third, Wid. Elizabeth Bowman, 15 Sept. 1754, maiden name perhaps Saunders. He was adm. Pet. ch. from the ch. in Wore. 30 May, 1756; was a capt. in the French War, and tavern-keeper in Menotomy. He was rated here in 1777, but not in 1781. He d. Oct. 1802, in liis 90th year. By second w. had Hannah, b. at Wore. 13 Apr. 1743, m. Walter Russell 17 Dec. 1761, and Enos Jones, Ashburnham, 26 Dec. 1790, d. 17 Oct. 1836; John, b. (21, Wore. Rec.) 22 Jan. 1744-5, died aged 104; and by third w. had Lydia, b. 20, bap. 24 Aug. 1755, Menot., m. first, Lemuel Blanchard, and second, Joseph Thorndike, Esq., Jaffrey, N. H., 30 July, 1795; Lucretia, b. 2, bap. 7 Aug. 1757, Menot., m. Ethan Wetherby, 31 Dec. 1775; Ebenezer Thomas, b. 10, bap. 17 Jan. 1762, Menot., m. Polly Goodwin of Charlestown, 20 June, 1784 (Chas. Rec.) See Wyman, 7, 419. Thomas the father is styled " gentleman " in a deed to Lemuel Blanchard in 1778. [See par. 19, for servants and others at his house.] Capt. Thomas Adams was a Pet. committeeman and assessor in 1764.^

1 On Nov. 12, 1758, the Rev. Samuel Cooke preached a sermon on the return of Capt. Adams and company from the French War, with the loss of only a single man. This sermon was remembei-cd in Dec. 1848, by the centenarian John Adams, the son of Capt. Thomas Adams, the commander of the company. James Adams, a son of John Adams, in a letter dated at Harford, Pa., 27 Dec. 1848, and addressed to the late Dr. Benjamin Cutter, of Woburn, Mass., speaks of the occurrence thus : " Dear Friend, I received a letter from you dated December 1st, likewise a sermon delivered by Parson Cooke the Sunday after my grandfather Thomas Adams returned from eight months service in the French War. My father recollects the time very well ; he was then about fourteen years of age, and was very anxious to go with him, but his father would not consent to have him go ; but he went with him to Springfield, then returned home. The company that 'listed under my grandfather were from a number of towns : all that went from Menotomy returned, except Thomas Robbins [should be Joseph, not Thomas Robbins - see History of Precinct under 1758], who died in a fit. Father recollects going to meeting, and when I read the sermon to him, it was fresh in his memory.*** My father is now almost 104 years old, or will be 22d Januarj', if he lives to see that day. He has failed a great deal for the year past, but now he is so that he can walk about, often without a staff. He reads but very little to what he did a year ago. He used to read nearly one half of the time for a number of years." John Adams died 26 Feb. 1849, aged 104 years, I month, 4 days.

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[The last days of this venerable man are described in two letters of his son, James Adams, to the late Dr. Benjamin Cutter, of Woburn, Mass. In one dated at Harford, Pa., 27 Dec. 1848, he says of his father at that date: "The greatest trouble he has is in conversmg with jieople, he is so deaf; he thinks it a burden for people to converse with him. I presume there have been hundreds caU to see him since he was an hundred years old, on account of seeing a man over a hundred years old. I got a petition sent to Congress to see if I could get something for services that he had done in the Revolutionary War ; he had been out long enough - though not at one time - to draw a pension by law ; three months was the longest time he was out, but the time was out before there was another call ; he had a man that lived with him that went three months ; while he was gone there was another call, and he turned out himself - the time that Burgoyne surrendered. He was not in the battle at Lexington, but was there the next day : he went to Cambridge and stayed until there were a sufficient number enlisted to guard the place and then returned home * * * * he stated the time in his own handwriting and gave oath to it. Hon. Isaac Hill, from New Hampshire, called and made us a visit last fall ; he told my father that he should go to Washington this winter, and he would do what he cotdd for him, if he lived to that time ; if it should so happen that you should see Mr, Hill before he goes to WashingttTii, please to tell him that my father is now living."

The second letter, dated at Harford, 21 Mar. 1849, contains the following: "I received your letter of Feb. 15. The day that my father died. I got him up in the morning and dressed him as usual ; he eat his breakfast ; I thought that he did not appear as he had done before, but still he appeared to be comfortable. I read the letter that you sent me ; ' AVell, James,' says he, ' what a fine thing it is to have friends, and I hope they don't think I have suffered for anything, for you have always helped me to everything for my comfort : tell my friends, I thank them kindly for the present they sent me.' This was about ten o'clock. After noon I thought I would ask him those questions that you wrote. I asked him if he remembered what my grandfather's third wife's maiden name was ; he thought a minute, then says, ' It appears to me that my memory is all gone, but I think her name was Sanders' I put more questions, but did not get an ansM^er ; then he appeared to go to sleep in his chair, as he often did ; about half past three, I asked if he had not better lie down ; says he. ' I think I will.' I helped him to bed, and he appeared to go to sleep ; he never spoke after that ; at eight o'clock in the evening his breath left his body Avithout a groan, or the least motion that could be perceived. His age was one hundred and four years, one mouth and four days. My dear friend, I return you my sincere thanks for the respect you have shown me and my deceased father."]

18. Amos, s. of John (12) [m. Rebecca Whittemore at W, Camb. 25 June, 1834. Mr. Adams, who is the only voter of the name in Arlington in 1879, has had married daughters, but no sons].

20. Samukl, and Sarah Turner m. in N. W. Pet. 25 Feb. 1776 - residents. [Prob. because of the military occupation and environment of Boston, 1775-76.] Roger of Newton and Mary Russell of Camb. m. 14 Oct. 1805.' Isaac of Boston and Edith Winship of Lexington, m. 2 Sept. 1806.

ALLEN, George, of Cambridge, m. Hannah White of Watertown, 16 Sept. 1756. Perhaps the Geoi-ge Allen of Waltham, from Medford in 1758, afterward of Watertown (see Bond's Wat. 7, 674; Hist. 3Ied. 570).

AUSTIN, Jaimes Trecothick, and Catherine Gerry of Cambridge, m. 2 Oct. 1806. He grad. H. U. 1802. LL.D. and attorney-general of Massachusetts. (See Drake's Biog. Diet.)

BABBIT, Godfrey - a stranger - d. 30 May, 1811, a. 21. The youngest son of Nathan, Esq., and Anna of Westmoreland, N. H., according to a slab in the old burying-ground.

I Thomas Barr, b. at Glasgow, Scotlaud, in 1802, d. at his residence 89 Concord Street, Lawrence, June 14, 1879, at the age of 77 years. He early removed to this country, and spent most of his life in La-mrence and in Lowell, though he carried on the business of a block printer at Taunton, Arlington and Burlington. He joined the Odd FeUows at Taunton in 1828, being the oldest Odd Fellow perhaps in the state. At his decease he was a member of Merrimack Lodge, Lowell. He was also a member of the Grand Lodge and was at one time grand warden. He joined the Masons in Lowell in 1845. At his death the family consisted of a widow and five children, Col. Barr of the U. S. A., stationed at St. Paul, being one of them.

His place of business in Arlington was at Schouler's milL When Bethel Lodge, No. 12, Arlington, was reinstituted in 1866, he was one of its most energetic supporters. He was an honored guest when this lodge dedicated its new and elegant hall in Bank Block, and on that occasion made a pleasant congratulatory address. - Essex Eagle; Arlington Advocate.

4. Ruth, prob. dau. of Joseph (2), d. 25 Jan. 1805, a. 24. Joseph and Jason Belknap were private soldiers in the French "War, and Joseph was a sergeant in the Revolutionary Army. - Paige.

So far the record. Lydia, dau. of Philip (1), m. Nathaniel Fes - senden, and was fatally shot, 30 May, 1770, a. 19. - See History of Precinct, under 1770. Betty (or Elizabeth), of Waltham, m. John Frost, and Abigail, of Waltham, m. Cooper Frost. Lydia, prob. of Waltham, m. Amos Frost. Eunice, of Waltham, m. Noah Russell. See Wyman, 76.

Blackington, of Camb., m. Elizabeth Hadley, 25 Dec. 1793. - Lex. Rec. Edward Blackington, of Camb., m. Sally Harrington, 30 Dec. 1793. - Ditto.'] Israel Blackington was a private soldier in the French War, and* Israel and Israel Blackington, Jr., were members of Capt. Benjamin Locke's company of Menotomy minute-men, 1775.

BLACKMAN, Mary, m. William Cutter, Jr., 6 Nov. 1774. Cutter (par. 27). Mary Blackman, adult person, o. c. and was bap. Camb. Old Parish, 10 Apr. 1774. She was half-sister of Isaiah Thomas, the celebrated printer, whose mother - Fidelity Grant of Rhode-Island - m. a Blackman, and settled in Cambridge. - See Lincoln's Hist. Worcester, 287, 294. Widow Fidelity Blackman of Camb. sold to Lemuel Blanchard in 1778, land with dwelling-house and barn, bounded on country road, the school-house lot or proprietors' lands, and west on Menotomy Pond.

BLODGETT, Nathan, of Camb. m. Mary Whitmore of Medford, 27 Apr. 1775. Dau. of William (see Paige," (^9:^). Nathan Blodgett was one of the Cambridge quota in the Revolutionary Army. - Paige. He was a non-resident in 1781. Nathan, non-resident, is mentioned as one of those that belonged to the Baptist Society in Camb. N. W. Prec't in 1787.

BOARDMAN and BORDMAN, a prominent family, more particularly in the First Parish. Moses m. Elizabeth Fillebrown, 25 Dec. 1746. Elizabeth m. Andrew Brown of 2d Reg't, 13 Dec. 1775. Elizabeth m. John Brown, 13-15 May, 1776. Andrew and w. Mary were adm. to the Second Prec't Church, 1 Mar. 1778. See Paige.

Solomon Bowman was lieutenant of Capt. Benjamin Locke's company of Menotomy minute-men, 1775, afterward a company of Col. Gardner's regiment, changed from the 37th to the 25th Reg't of the Continental Army. Wyman presents an inaccurate statement regarding this family on p. 104 of his Charlestown work.

2. Francis, d. 25 June, 1750, a. 44. (See Paige, 495.) Francis was uncle to Solomon (1). - Bond. Francis Bowman was a Pet. committeeman, 1748, and Pet. assessor, 1748. Thaddeus - the father of Solomon - and Sybil Wilson, both Lexington, m. 8 Feb. 1753. The name is Woolson - see Bond. Thaddeus - brother of Solomon (1) - had s. Thaddeus, b. 24 June, bap. 6 July, 1766.

" Hannah Bradish, of that part of Cambridge called Menotomy, and daughter of Timothy Paine, of Worcester, in the county of Worcester, Esquire, of lawful age, testifies, and says that about five o'clock on Wednesday last, afternoon, being in her bedchamber with her infant child, about eight days old, she was surprised by the firing of the King's troops and oui- people, on their return from Concord ; she being weak and unable to go out of her house, in order to secure herself and family, they all retired into the kitchen, in the back part of the house ; she soon found the house surrounded with the King's troops ; that upon observation made, at least seventy bullets -were shot into the front part of the house; several bullets lodged in the kitchen where she was, and one passed through an easy chair she had just gone from ; the door of the front part of the house was broken open; she did not see any soldiers in the house, but supposed, by the noise, they were in the front ; after the troops had^one off she missed the following things, which she verily believes were taken out of the house by the King's troops, viz. : - One rich brocade gown, called a negligee ; one lutestring gown, one white quilt, one pair of brocade shoes, three shifts, eight white aprons, three caps, one case of ivory knives and forks, and several other small articles. Hannah Bradish."

" Mrs. Hannah Bradish, the above deponent, maketh oath before us, the subscribers, two of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the county of Worcester, and of the quorum, that the above deposition, according to her best recollection, is the truth. Which deposition is taken in pe7-petuam rei memoriam.

Samuel Paine of Worcester, a tory brother of Hannah Bradish, propagated reports with regard to our Massachusetts soldiers rifling the house of Mr. Bradish, instead of the Regular troops. - Journals of each Provincial Coiigress, p. 214.

BRIDGE, John, of Boston, and Mart Bridge of Lexington, m. 21 Sept. 1806. Nancy, wife of Nathaniel, d. 24 Apr. 1842, a. 82. For last named see Wyman's Charlestown, 12Q; Bond's TFat. 25, 706.

BRIGHAM, Lincoln, had w. Lucy, adm. to the ch. 25 Nov. 1810, and Lucy Maria, tet. 8, Joseph Lincoln, get. 6, and Erastus Furher, «t. 4, baptized 16 Dec. 1810; and Elijah Dana, bap. 7 Nov. 1813. Lucy was dism. to the Evangelical Church in Cambridgeport, Oct. 1827. [Lincoln Brigham was a selectman of Cambridge, 1823.]

BRIXTON, Phebe, and Daniel Adams of Camb. m. 3 June, 1793. RuTHY, and Jonathan Harrington of Camb. m. 10 Nov. 1799. See Ward's Shreivsbury, 249 ; Wyman, 7, 131.

BROOKS, James, of Concord, m. Elizabeth Bathrick of Camb. 26 Dec. 1745. Punch, servant of Samuel Brooks of Medford, and Rose, servant of William Cutler - slaves - m. 3 June, 1754; fee 10s. He - slave, man-servant of Samuel Brooks, Jr., of Medford - was bap. with Rose, his wife, 15 Dec. 1754.

3. John, 3d, of Lancaster, and Mary Brown of Camb. m. 3 Dec. 1767. Prob. s. of John Brooks of Woburn and Hannah (Cutter) Brooks, dau. of Dea. John Cutter - see Cutter Book, 45, and Cutter (par. 3).

gail, prob. same who m. Solomon Bowman, 1 Mar. 1768. Roger, negro boy of Daniel, d. 1 Apr. 1754, a. 8 yrs. Abigail, w. prob. of Daniel, d. 12 Feb. 1812, a. 92. Daniel the father was ensign of Menotomy train band in 17G6, and lieut. of same company 1771, and Pet. committeeman and assessor 17()0-67. He was rated in Menotomy in 1777 and 1781, and afterward was prob. of Concord. Lt. Daniel Brown was chosen Prect. treasurer in 1785, but declined serving.

2. John, from Boston, d. at Thomas Hall's, 24 May, 1754, a. 6 yrs. John m. Elizabeth Boardman, 13 or 15 May, 1776 (see Paige, 503). Susanna m. Stephen Frost, 20 Dec. 1772. ANDRfew, of Second Regt., m. Elizabeth Boardman, 13 Dec. 1775. Hannah m. Thomas Fillebrown, 1 Dec. 1778. Miriam m. Richard Cutter 25 May, 1781 - Cutter (par. 18). Submit and Jesse Richardson, of AYoburn, m. 7 Dec. 1781. Thomas, of Waltham, and Susanna Kendall of Camb. 30 June, 1793. Rebecca, of Lexhigton, and James Perry of Camb. 10 June, 1798. Mrs. Anne {Ame), of Charlestown, and Benjamin Locke of W. Camb. 15 Mar. 1807 - Wyman, 142. Susan and Samuel Cutter of W. Camb. 6 Mar. 1809 - Cutter (par. 39). James, of Cambridge, and Mary Ann Perry of W. Camb. 5 May, 1825.' Erastus and Anna Wiuship of Lexington, 22 Oct. 1826. Edmund M., of Lexington, and Harriet W. Whitney of W. Camb. 1 May, 1836. John J., of Lexington, and Hannah A. Swan of W. Camb. 24 Mar. 1841.

BRUCE, Miss Anna, d. 8 Feb. 1793, a. 18 [sister of James Bruce of Woburn]. James Bruce of Wob. m. Betty Harrington 15 June, 1797. - Lexington Records.

'^ Moses Bucknam with wife and children, Leonard, Spencer, Nancy and Fanny, from Maiden, April, 1786; in census 1789. - Wyman's Charlestown, 148.

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25; the second w. was of Billerica origin). William and w. Mehit- ABLE were adm. to the Pet. eh. 31 May, 1741. A nurse child from Boston at William Butterfield's d. 19 Aug. 1755, a. 5 mos. A nurse child at the Widow Butterfield's, d. 20 Jan. 1762; and a child at the Widow B.'s, d. 7 Jan. 1763, a. 2 wks. Mehitable, wid. of William, m. Samuel Locke, 6 June, 1770. See Wyman's Charlestown, 162, groups 4 and 11. William Butterfield was a corjjoral in the French War.

Jonathan Butterfield, Jr., was Pet, committeeman fiy^ yrs. from 1733 to 1749. John 4iutterfield was Pet. committeeman five yrs. /rom 1735 to 1745, Both were Pet. assessors for a series of vears.

week, aged 92 years or more." - Diary of Samuel Thompson, Esq., Wohiirn. He was a grandson of Capt. John Carter, of Woburn, and b. 31 Oct. 1694. - See Hist, of Woburn, 598. Mehitable, m. Nathan "VVhittemore, 7 Feb. 1781 - see Wyman's Charlestown, 190, group 13. Susan, and Joseph W. Adams, both of Lowell, m. 17 May, 1835.*

CARTERET (otherwise Cartaret and Gartivright) , Elizabeth, w. of Philip, adm. to eh. at organization, 9 Sept. 1739. Elizabeth Carteret, w. of same, and Dorithea Dunster, prob. her sister, were adm. to Medford ch. 21 Apr. 1728, and Elizabeth Cakteret was dism. from Medford ch. to Menotomy, 1 Sept. 1739. She was dau. of Jonathan Dunster and Deborah, dau. of Maj. Jonathan Wade of Medford (second wife of Dunster) - see Paige - m. Philip Carteret (or DeCarteret) 16 Nov. 1727 - %ma/i - and d. 25 Jan. 1787, a. 87 (g. s. Arlington). Capt. Philip, her husband, d. 19 Apr. 1767, a. 66 (g. s. Arlington). He was a Pet. committeeman ten yrs. from 1738 to 1760, and Pet. assessor for the same period. A negro boy of Capt. Carteret d. 12 Apr. 1747, a. 6 yrs. A negro girl of Capt. Carteret was b. 15 Aug. 1753. Pegg., woman-servant of Capt. C, d. 10 Dec. 1757. Cnjfee Cartwright d. 20 Jan. 1826, a. 77.'

Hephzibah Page, of Hampton, d. at Capt. Carter eVs, 5 Aug. 1765, a. 29 - a niece of his wife, and dau. of Solomon, of Hampton, N. H., and Dorothy (Dunster) Page.

The name is De Carteret on the gravestones of Capt. Philip, his widow Elizabeth, and daughters Mary, Rii'h and Elizabeth, in Arlington burying-ground. Philip Carteret witnessed the deed of his brother-in-law David Dunster's sale of his home place to Joseph Winship, 12 March, 1742. He was prob. a maiuner. Wyman states that he was executor of Edward de Carteret of St. Johns, Isle of Jersey,

* Capt. John Carter, of Woburn, was ensign tliere 1653, lieut. 1664, and captain 1675, the time of Philip's War. Lieut. John Carter, his son, and father of Capt. Samuel Carter above, had a son Benjamin, who entered the military service and was killed by Indians near Dunstable, 5 Sept. 1724. Samuel Carter and Samuel Carter, Jr., of Woburn, are mentioned in the History of Precinct in this work, under 1761. The latter d. 14 (buried 15) Sept. 1805, a. 84, was intombed in a walled enclosure in a field on the present Winchester hills, adjoining Arlington. - See Wyman's C harlestoivn.

2 He used to work by the day among the farmers, slept in barns and lived almost anyhow. One of his stories was that he was a servant to General Burgo yne, and that just before the capture of the latter at Saratoga, he was ordered to take the General's favorite horse one morning to the brook to water. The American and British armies lay on each side of it, half a mile or so apart. After the horse had drank sufficiently. Cuff concluded to join the Americans, and dashing through the brook, while the British bullets fl.ew thick at him, reached our lines. - /. B. Russell,

CHADWICK, Sybil, and Mary, from Dr. Eckley'sch. in Boston, were adm. to West Camb. oh. 25 Nov. 1810. Sijhil d. here 18 Mar. 1832. a. 82; wife of Capt. Nathaniel Chadwick, who d. at St. Domingo, Nov. 1802, a. 55. Mary, her dau., died, the wid. of Jacob AVelsh, at Welshfield, Ohio, in 1823, a. 40. [See Wyman's Ghas. 1007.) Clarissa Kent, sister to Mrs. Chadwick, d. here 15 Sept. 1832, a. 84. The deaths of this family are minutely given on a slab in the old burying-ground, erected by Clarissa Chadwick, dau. of Capt. Nathaniel and Sybil, who d. 6 Feb. 1851, a. 76, the last survivor of the family.^

CHAMPNEY, Daniel, Jr., m. Hannah Emmons, 22 Sept. 174G. Nathan of Camb. and Elizabeth Osborn, of Charlestown this Pet , m. 23 June, 1760, (See Paige, 508; Wyman, 200)

* On 27 Apr. 1839, Clarissa Chadwick, single woman, purchased of Ephraim Cutter, miller, the right to deposit in his family tomb in the burial ground of the First Congregational Society, the bodies of her mother Sybil Chadwick, and aunt "Creasey" Kent; also the body of herself [and servant Sylvia Bracy]. This conveyance, never recorded, was voluntarily surrendered to Benjamin Cutter, administrator of Ephraim Cutter's estate, the bodies severally deposited in said tomb having been removed to another built by Miss Chadwick for herself in the same grounds.

CLARK or CLARKE, Richard, of Watertown, and w. Elizabeth, were adm. to this ch. 4 Apr. 1762. He m. Elizabeth Wellington here 2 July, 1761, and had chil. EUzalhh, bap. here 8 Aug. 1762, and Rebecca, bap- here 8 May, 1768. (See Bond, 161, 742.) [Richard Clark, of Watertown, m. Mary Tufts, wid. of Nathan Tufts, and dau. of Joseph Adams (1). - Wymmi.']

2. Thomas, of Watertown, had Thomas, bap. here 28 Feb. 1762; iSaraA, bap. here 15 July, 1764; Hannah Bond, bap. here 20 July, 1766 (Sarah, Jr., of Watertown - who worshipjjed here - d. 17 Aug. 1778, a. 15 yrs.; Hannah Bond, d. 18 Aug. 1778, a. 13 yrs.; daughters of Wid. Sarah) ; Peter, s. of Thomas of Watertown - bap. here 8 Jan. 1769. Thomas the father was an older brother of Richard (1), his wife was Sarah Bright, dau. by a former marriage of his (Thomas's) father's second wife Anna (Bowman) Bright. (See Bond, 161.)

COLE, Sally, d. 9 Dec. 1807, a. 7 yrs. John, d. suddenly at Phile. Russell's, 16 June, 1837, a. 60 - Damon supposes a Universalist, and attended the funeral. Caleb was on a committee here 6 Nov. 1801 ; pewholder, 1805.

2. Lydia, of Medford, m. Benjamin Francis of Charlestown this Pet. 7 Apr. 1757. Patience, of Medford, and Edward Gardner of Charlestown, m. 23 Mar. 1817. See Wyman, 235.

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13. Samuel, Pastor, made choice of by the Second Precinct in Cambridge for that office, 21 JNIay, 1739; accepted of their invitation to the work of the gospel ministry, 2 July, 1739; became a member of the church at its organization, 9 Sept. 1739; and on 12 Sept. 1739, was ordained pastor of this church and congregation. The First Church ill Cambridge, and the churches of Lexington, Medford and Watertown, assisted in that solemnity. Such is the substance of his record of these transactions in the Church Book given by him to the Second Church in Cambridge.

The first wife of Rev. Samuel Cooke was Sarah Porter, dau. of Samuel and Anne of Hadley; m. 2 Oct. 1740; brought by her husband to his house, 16 Oct.; had one child, and d. 22 Aug. 1741, a. 24 (family monument), as did her child the 14th previous, both dying of

1 " The temptations that attend youth in the path of life are many and peculiar. But a merciful God and Father who knows our frame has not left such without every possible motive to pursue their best interest. As this discourse is particularly designed for the instruction of youth, I shall very briefly show, first, whence their danger in early life arises, and then, secondly, point out some of the special encouragements to early piety suggested to youth in the word of God aud particularly in the text. And God grant they may be attended to as things which nearly concern your everlasting peace," &c. &c.

the " throat distemper." He then m. Anna Cotton, dau. of Rev. John and Mary of Newton, 23 Sept. 1742, came home the 30th. An7ia, - ''^ uxor et mater domns. Ah!" - d. 12 Feb. 1761, a. 38, having been mother of eleven children. He m. third, 25 Nov. 1762, Lucy, wid. of Rev. Nicholas Bowes, of Bedford, the dau. of Rev. John and Elizabeth Hancock, of Lexington. She d. 21 Sept. 1768, a. 56 - "after years of sore distress from the gravel."

For autobiography of Rev. Samuel Cooke, see History of Precinct under 1778. He was distinguished by his good sense and prudence, and for his ardent patriotism. The writer has in his possession a large number of his MS. sermons. Other particulars regarding his life are given elsewhere in this work, during the period covered by his pastorate. A writer in the Am. Qaar. Register for 1839, says, *' Mr. Cooke was very eminent among the ministers of his day," and gives a list of his published sermons.

COOPER, Daniel, of Camb., and Lydia Mullet of Charlestown, this Pet., m. 9 May, 1764. Daniel of Charlestown o. c. 5 May, 1765, and had daus. Lydia Prentice and Elizabeth, bap. 5 May, 1765; Elizabeth Prentice, dau. of Daniel of Charlestown, d. 26 Mar. 1767, a. 2 yrs. ; iVeffe, dau. of Daniel, Charlestown, bap. 17 May, 1767. Widow Lydia d. at her father Mullet's, 4 Dec. 1777, a. 39. See ^ Wyman, 239.

2. Samuel, had a dau. b. 31 Aug. 1780. Mary, m. Thomas Beals, 6 June, 1779 - fee $40. William, m. Rebecca Jenkins, 24 Apr. 1780. (These three probably chil. of Benjamin, innholder in Menotomy during the Revolution - see Paige, 517.) Mara, dau. of Jonathan, a brother of Daniel (1), m. Joshua Palmer, 23 May, 1791. (See Paige, 517.)

Benjamin Cooper - prob. the innholder - was a selectman of Camb. in 1778. Daniel - perhaps the Daniel (1) - was a private soldier in the French War. A Benjamin Cooper, of Charlestown (Samuel Kent, master), was a private soldier in Capt. Thomas Adams's company from this Precinct and other towns, in 1758. See Wijman, 239, group 11.

16, 1858, of certain land situated in West Cambridge, to George H. Gray, John Field, Reuben Hopkins and John Osborn, all of West Cambridge, permanent trustees, in trust for the use and maintenance of a high school or academy. It having long been the desire of many citizens of the town to establish and maintain a school of that character in the place, for the instruction and education of youth of both sexes, certain citizens had organized themselves into an association for that purpose and had appointed the above-named gentlemen, being one from each of the four religious societies of the town, viz. the Orthodox, Unitarian, Universalist and Baptist, to carry out their plan. In consequence of the generous gift of Mr. Cotting, the trustees named the school the Cotting Academy. Suitable buildings were soon afterward erected on this lot of land, which was situated on "the north-west side of a new street laid out over land late of said Cotting, leading into the main high road from West Cambridge to Lexington." The gift was subject to various proper restrictions and conditions, the chief of which was, that no school shall be kept on the premises, or permitted to be kept, by the said trustees or their successors, of a lower grade than a high school, " to the end that any pupil thereof, so desiring, shall at all times have opportunity of being thoroughly educated in such school, in any and all the branches of learning required for admission into Harvard University at Cambridge, and other American colleges." On failure of said trustees and their successors to keep and maintain, or cause to be kept and maintained, such school or academy for the period of six successive months, then said Cotting or his heirs may re-enter and take immediate possession of said land as of his first and former estate, and the buildings thereon, if not removed within three months after notice, shall become the property of said Cotting or his heirs. The deed permitting a transfer to the town on the same conditions, the town of West Cambridge assumed the above responsibilities, and on Sept. 16, 1864, purchased from the trustees their interest in the estate, and gave the school the name of the Cotting High School. The establishment of this academy formed a new starting-point in the prosperity of the town. Some of the principal men had avowed their determination to leave the place unless such a school could be established.

^ Mr. George Croome, for many years a leading manufacturer and dealer in furniture in this city, died at his residence in Arlington on Friday, after two years of great suffering, at the age of nearly 72. He came from England to Boston when a child, and in youth served an apprenticeship in a furniture manufactory. AVhen a young man he established himself in business with Mr. Lane, under the firm name of Lane & Croome, first locating on Court street, and afterward on Washington street. He continued in the business for many years - after Mr. Lane's retirement, as Croome & Hixon, then as George Croome, and lastly as George Croome & Co., retiring about two years ago. He leaves a widow. - Boston Daily Advertiser, Monday, Oct. 27, 1879.

CUTLER, Alice, wife of James, and Abigail, wife of James, Jr., were adm. to the Pet. ch. at organization 9 Sept. 1739. James, Sen., d. 16 Sept. 1756, a. 72. He was an innbolder here in 1734. - See Wyman, 259. Alice, wife of the above James, d. 22 Sept. 1756, a. 67. Alice, their dau., m. Ephraim Jones, Jr., of Concord, 16 Nov. 1752. James Cutler was a prominent petitioner for the establishment of the Precinct - see History, Chap. I. - and one of the Pet. committee eight years between 1733 and 1752; also Pet. assessor.

William (3), was an innholder and had slaves. Rose, his servant, m. Punch, servant of Samuel Brooks of Medford, 3 June, 1754 - fee 10s. She, styled maid-servant of William, was bap. 15 Dec. 1754. (Punch, her husband, slave - man-servant of Samuel Brooks, Jr., Medford - bajD. same time). A negro child of Rose, servant of William, b. 2 Feb. 1755, d. 5 Feb. 1755, a. 4 ds. Dinah, negro girl of William, was bap. 17 Oct. 1756, te. 2. Venus, a dau. of Rose - William's negro - was bap. 9 Dec. 1759. Prince, s. of Rose - William's servant - b. 8 Aug., bap. 12 Sept. 1762. Rose m. Scipio Pool of

1 James Cutler, born May 12, 1774, married Abigail, daughter of Major Benjamin llussell. He was of the firm of Russell & Cutler, who published the Boston Gazette for many years. - J. B. R.

William Cutler was lieut. of Menotomy trainband in 1766. Islimael and Prince Cutler were soldiers in the Revolutionary army. Cutler's Tavern, afterward Tufts's Tavern, is still standing.

CUTTER. This very numerous family has been more fully treated by the author in his History of the Cutter Family of New England, and the briefest outline only is here given.

2. Nathaniel, a brother of Gershom (1 ), had Wid. Elizabeth, adm. to Pet. ch. at organization, 9 Sept. 1739, and dism. thence to the First Church in Groton, 12 Nov. 1749. {Caution, 1752, Elizabeth Cutter, last from Groton, into said town of Woburn ; her husband's son John Cutter d. in Woburn 15 Mar. 1789, a. 85.) She was prob. the Elizabeth Cutter adm. to Camb. ch. 15 Feb. 1719. Elizabeth m. Samuel Fay, of Westboro', 6 Apr. 1756. See Wyman, 270.

3. John (s. of William, a brother of Gershom, above), adm. to Camb. ch. with w. Lydia, 4 June, 1710, and adm. with w. Lydia to the ch. in N. W. Pet. 9 Sept. 1739, the time of its organization; was chosen deacon of the latter ch. 17 Nov. 1739, being one of the two first deacons. He had previously been member of an important committee of the First Church, for observing the interests of religion, a committee instituted in 1736, and renewed annually for the space of about fifty years, and was one of the members first elected. He was constable in 1725; assessor, 1721, '24, '27, '28, 1736, 1741 ; selectman, 1728,1736, 1741; Pet. committeeman, 1736, 1738-46; Pet. clerk, 1733-65, thirty-two years; Pet. treasurer, 1734, also Pet. assessor five years. Lydia, w. of Dea. John, d. 7 Jan. 1755, a. 64 (g. s.) - maiden name Harrington (see Bond's Wat. 273). Deacon John d. 21 Jan. 1776, in 86th yr. and 37th of his office - his surviving children 8, grandchildren 68, great-grandchildren 115, and of the fifth generation 3 (g. s.). Had Lydia, adm. to Camb. ch. 5 May, 1728, m. Seth Reed (pub. 5 Aug. 1732) ; Rebecca, who m. fi]-st, Zechariah Hill, and second, Samuel Carter - at the time of her death the mother of 11 children, grandmother of 103, great-grandmother of 150, and of the fourth generation 134; Hannah, m. John Brooks; Mary, m. Ephraim Frost; John; Abigail, adm. Pet. ch. at organization 9 Sept. 1739, m. Sam-

1 Dinah and Ishmael are named in an article on the doings of the Cutler family at the time of the passage of the British troops through Menotomy, April 19, 1775, published in Arlington Advocate for May 1, 1875.

6. Ammi Ruhamah, brother of John (3), grad. Harv. Coll. 1725, and as " Sir" Cutter was adm. Camb. ch. 26 Nov. 1727, was ordained minister of North Yarmouth (now Yarmouth, Me.), 18 Nov. 1730, and dismissed 28 Nov. or 12 Dec. 1735. Was afterward a physician and superintendent of a trading-house for the Indians on the Saco River, and in 1745 was capt. 7th co. 3d Mass. Regt. expedition against Louisburg, where it appears, after Louisburg was taken by the English, he was detailed to remain in the vicinity in command and to officiate as surgeon, and where in March, 1 746, he died of disease, probably fever, a. 40 to 45. Tradition says that his preaching was ingenious and original, and that in surgery he was eminent. His person was spoken of as commanding, his eye black and piercing " almost to the annihilation of the object on which it rested." His habits were probably not as grave and severe as the church under his care deemed essential. The writer has in his possession two plans by him of his father's lands in Menotomy, made about the year 1725. Rev. Samuel Cooke, in Camb. Second Prect., records that on the evening of Sunday, 27 Jan. 1740, he conversed with Mr. Ammi R. Cutter - then probably on a visit to Menotomy, his birth-place. Ammi Ruhamah Cutter [H. U. 1752], his sou, of Portsmouth, N. IL, was surgeon of Rogers's Rangers in the French War, and Pliysician-General of tlie Eastern Department in the Revolutionary War. See Wy man's Chas., 266.

18. Richard, s. of Richard (10), m. Miriam Brown, 25 May, 1781. He o. c. at Camb. First Church, in order his chil. be baptized, 3 Jan. 1783. Had bap. at Camb. First Parish, Hannah, b Jan. 1783; Elizabeth Merriam,^ Oct. 11 M; Mary, Zl Dec. 1786; Leonard, 12 Mar. 1791. (See Cutter Hist., 109-112, 371.) Richard the father was a private soldier from Camb. iu the Revolutionary War.

1789, First Parish, m. S. B. Morse; Amos and Harriet (twins), b. 29 Aug. and bap. Second Pet. 2 Sept. 1792 - Harriet m. Joshua Cheever ; Amos, b. 15 Aug. 1794, dead in 1842 - no heirs; Emily, m. Levi Ingols. Ammi the father was a private soldier in the Revolutionary Army, and d. (see Cutter Hist.) 28 June, 1830; his wife dying 30 Mar. 1817. See Wyman, 262.

22. Benjamin, s. of Ammi (11), m. Anna Wjeth, 6 Mar. 1785. He was prob. the Benjamin, laborer, and wife, who went from Cambridge to Charlestown, 1786. She was prob. the Anna, adm. to Pet. ch. 4 Apr. 1802. He resided at a point a few rods west of the bridge across the Wear in Mystic River, between Arlington and Medford, and letters he received were addressed " Charlestown," '* Medford," " Menotomy," " Charlestown near the Wears Bridge," " Charlestown to be left at West Cambridge Post Office," and " 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 l)y 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 Cl'TTer, 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. Anna had no isslle. At her decease his estate was divided among very many heirs. He d. 8 Mar. 1824, a. 63; she d. 15 Apr. 1842, a. 76 (g. s.). He was a Pet. committeeman from 1794 to 1801, and Pet. assessor 1795, '96, 1801, '02. See Wyman, 262.

1 He was a thrifty, public- spirited man. He always had the best live stock, the best orchard, and the best- filled barn of the neighborhood. - Letter of J. Brooks Russell.

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27. William, s. of Jonathan (12), m. Mary Blackman, 6 Nov. 1774 - half-sister of Isaiah Thomas the celebrated printer - see Blackman - and d. 11 June, 1824, a. 74; she d. 9 Mar. 1836, a. 80. No issue. Donors of the " William Cutter School Fund," for which a granite monument was erected by vote of the town in 1836, over the spot of their interment.

31. William, s. of Samuel (13), m. first Hannah Cutter, 29 Apr. 1783, twin dau. of Samuel Cutter (par. 42), and second Mrs. Lydia Cutter, 9 Nov. 1818, wid. of Jonathan Cutter (par. 28). He resided in the Charlestown part of the Precinct, and d. 2S Nov. 1846, a. 88. A monument erected by friends at his grave, Nov. 1851, commemorates his services as a soldier during the war of the Revolution, and states that he was in several engagements and once made a prisoner. Had William F.,h. 15 Aug. 1783, m. Hannah Mallet, res. in Camb., Charlestown and Sandwich, and d. 1837, a. 54; Ezehiel, m. Sophia Whittemore, 29 Nov. 1809; Samuel; Hannah, m. Robert Derby; Eliza, m. Robert Derbv, 12 Mar. 1818; a child, d. 19 Sept. 1802, a. 2; a child, d. 22 Sept.' 1803, a. 10 mos. See Wyman, 265.

45. Andrew, s. of Nehemiah (16), m. Rebecca Cutter, 15 July, 1779, dau. of Gershom Cutter (par. 37). He was a member of Locke's company of Menotomy minute-men, 1775, and d. Charleston, S. C, in 1794. Had Rebecca, d. here 12 Sept. 1783; Rebecca; Cranston; Amos; Harriet, m. Daniel Burbeck, 29 Nov. 1807; Andrew; Rebecca, m. James HoUowell; Caroline. Andrew the f. belonged to the Baptist Society in Camb. N. W. Pet. 21 July, 1787. See Gutter Book, 254, 350-51 ; Wyman, 269.

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Benjamin the father grad. at Ilarv. Univ. in 1824, and M.D. 1827 and 1857. He practised his profession nearly forty years at Woburn, where he d. 9 Mar. 1864, a. GO. He was tlie author of this work.'

60. Samuel Locke, s. of Ephraim (24), m. twice, and had seven sons and one daughter ; of whom Ephraim Peirce and Watson Grant were bap. here 8 July, 1838. See GiMer Booh, 143-44, 387, 408-09.

64. Joseph, s. of Samuel (42), m. Nancy Ireland. Had Nancy - "dau. of Joseph and Nancy" - d. 25 Sept. 1799, a. 17 mos. (g. s.); and others. He resided in Charlestown in 1798, and had son Joseph, a cardmaker in Boston in 1836, whose w. Sarah d. in lioston in 1837, a3t. 35. Sally Cutter, gr.-dau. of Joseph who served an apprenticeship with Isaac Bradish, is mentioned in Charlestown town records. See (7M^/!e;- 7>oo/l-, 250, 3!)5-96; Wyman, 2(j'^).