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Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 9 (search)
ncestry appended to a Sermon delivered at West Cambridge, April 13, 1828, at the close of his ministry, and published at Boston, by Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1843, states, I was born on the 22d of June, 1762. At the age of seventeen, I began to prepare for College under the tuition of Rev. Mr. Samuel Woodward, who was an able instructor and linguist, the minister of Weston, my native town. I was offered by him for examination, and was admitted a student of Harvard University in July, 1781, and graduated in 1785. After he had taken his degree, he taught a grammar school in Lexington, and boarded in the family of the Rev. Jonas Clark. He returned to the University in Cambridge, and studied divinity under Rev. Prof. Wigglesworth, and was licensed to preach 8 Aug. 1786, by the Association of Ministers in and about Cambridge. He preached his first sermon in his native town, and after supplying several vacant parishes, was invited in March, 1787, to preach to the Second Cong