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Samuel Phipps
An early resident of Somerville territory By Capt. George A. Gordon
(Read before Somerville Historical Society December 20, 1905.)
The presence of so many friends, acquaintances, and fellowcitizens is encouraging, as well as complimentary.
I must regret that so many will be disappointed,—not finding in the theme of my paper this evening, or in its treatment, the interesting relation hoped for.
I come not before you this evening to give instruction to you, whose object and aim is the acquisition and dispensing of local history; but I beg to call to your minds that, at the dates covered by the theme of my paper, Charlestown and Cambridge were contiguous in territory, with a common boundary reaching from Miller's river to Burlington, Charlestown bounded with Lynn on the northeast, and with Boston on the Mystic river, as Chelsea was early a part of Boston.
This most ancient town of Middlesex County was the third settlement in the limits of Massachusetts, outsid