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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)
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 Pct. committeeman and assessor in 1764. On Nov. 12, 1768, 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 remembered 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 recollec