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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 8: civil History. (search)
cordingly elected a Constable and three Select men, Aug. 27, 1679. Such action would sufficiently account for the record bearing that date in what Jackson styles the New Town Book. But the evidence in the case is not wholly of this negative character. One of the documents published by Mr. Jackson Hist. of Newton, p. 62. indicates with some distinctness a different day (Jan. 11, 1687-8) as the true date of incorporation into a distinct town:— Articles of agreement, made September 17, 1688, between the Selectmen of Cambridge and the Selectmen of the Village, in behalf of their respective towns: That, whereas Cambridge Village, by order of the General Court in the late government, was enjoined to bear their proportion in the charges in the upholding and maintaining of the Great Bridge and School, with some other things of a public nature in the town of Cambridge; also there having been some difference between the Selectmen of said towns, concerning the laying of rates fo