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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 4 (search)
which they paid to Seth Stone, collector of taxes in this Precinct, in the month of January last; and the vote was in the negative. Vote to choose a committee of two persons to defend the parish in any lawsuit with the Baptists, if they bring any against it. 1786 On April 26, 1786, the inhabitants made choice of Mr. Jonathan Burr for their minister. Mr. Burr was a graduate of Harvard College in 1784, and married Sarah, daughter of the late Rev. Samuel Cooke, on July 19, 1787. On Aug. 21, 1786, this vote was reconsidered, and Mr. Joshua Paine was chosen for their minister, with a second unsuccessful result. Mr. Paine, H. U. 1784, became minister of Charlestown, ordained 1787, and died 1788. Mr. Burr was Tutor H. U. 1786-1787, and ordained 1787 minister at Sandwich. 1787 Mr. Thaddeus Fiske began to preach here. From the Records of the Second Church in Cambridge—by Thaddeus Fiske, Pastor. Began to preach to the Second Church and Society in Cambridge on the first Sa