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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 12: civil History. (search)
use now stands. presented by Mr. Andrew Bordman to the town for that purpose. It cost about six hundred dollars; upwards of three hundred dollars were paid by the town of Cambridge, and the remainder contributed by individuals. In 1803, a Fire Society was formed, which, at an expense of upwards of five hundred dollars, procured an excellent engine; and a company was raised to take charge of it. Dr. Holmes' Ordination Sermon, ut sup. By an act passed June 15, 1805, Royal Makepeace, John Cook, Josiah Mason, Jr., Daniel Mason, and Andrew Bordman, were constituted and made a corporation and body-politic, by the name of the Cambridgeport Meeting-house Corporation, . . . for the purpose of building a meeting-house and supporting public worship therein, in the easterly part of Cambridge. Of the hundred shares of stock in this Corporation, Rufus Davenport was the owner of twenty, and Royal Makepeace of seventeen. A spacious brick meeting-house was erected on the westerly side of th
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 14: civil History. (search)
as within his personal knowledge. The result was the insertion of an article in the Warrant for the next town-meeting, Nov. 1, 1830, to see if the town will erect a Town-house on the Almshouse lot, or some other suitable spot, as prayed for by John Cook and others. This article was referred to a committee consisting of three prominent citizens in each section of the town, to wit: Samuel P. P. Fay, Royal Makepeace, John Cook, Stephen Higginson, Asahel Stearns, Levi Farwell, William Parmenter, John Cook, Stephen Higginson, Asahel Stearns, Levi Farwell, William Parmenter, Samuel S. Green, and Ephraim Buttrick. This committee reported, March 7, 1831, that, having considered the subject, it is, in their opinion, expedient that a town-house should be erected on the easterly part of the almshouse lot in the parish of Cambridgeport, as more central to the population of the town than the present house, and that a house sufficient to accommodate the town may be built for a sum not exceeding $2,000: that when such house shall be finished, all town meetings should be he
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 23: civil officers. (search)
Nathaniel P. Watson, 1806, 1807. Asa Nichols, 1806. Benjamin Locke, 1806, 1807. Jonathan Whittemore, 1806, 1807. Newell Bent, 1807, 1822-1824. Nathan Fiske, 1807. John Mellen, 1808-1810. John Hayden, 1808-1811. Royal Makepeace, 1808-1811. William Hilliard, 1808-1816, 1818, 1822, 1826, 1827. Josiah Mason, 1808. Benjamin Bigelow, 1812-1814. Thomas Austin, 1812, 1813, 1815. Phinehas B. Hovey, 1812-1814. Josiah Moore, 1814. Job Wyeth, 1814, 1815. John Cook, 1815, 1816. Rufus Fiske, 1815, 1816, 1839, 1840. Josiah Hovey, 1816-1818. Abel Whitney, 1816, 1838, 1839. John Williams, 1817. Levi Farwell, 1817-1821. Thomas L. Parker, 1817-1822. Luke Hemenway, 1818, 1819. Jonas Wyeth 2d, 1819-1821. Henry Messenger, 1819-1821. Isaac Train, 1820-1822, 1825-1827. Thomas Warland, 1822, 1823. Lusher Gay, 1822. Samuel F. Sawyer, 1823-1825. Deming Jarvis, 1823, 1824. Lincoln Brigham, 1823. John Whitney, 1824, 1825.