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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., I. General History. (search)
e it included all the territory in the two towns on the westerly side of Menotomy River, now Alewife Brook, the stream flowing from the Spy-Pond Brook into the Mystic River. The Mystic River, of which the ancient Menotomy River is a branch, has its source in Mystic Pond, which was shown on Wood's Map of Massachusetts in 1633. Mystic River, of which the ancient Menotomy River is a branch, has its source in Mystic Pond, which was shown on Wood's Map of Massachusetts in 1633. It almost has its beginning, continuance and end within the limits of Medford, and hence is often called the Medford River. The names of the Mystic and Menotomy Rivers are apparently aboriginal designations, and like all Indian names probably describe the locality to which they were affixed. Trumbull gives the origin of the nameMystic and Menotomy Rivers are apparently aboriginal designations, and like all Indian names probably describe the locality to which they were affixed. Trumbull gives the origin of the name Mystic, anciently written Mistick, as applied to the Medford River, thus: Tuk in Indian denotes a river whose waters are driven in waves by the tides or winds. With the adjectival misi, great, it forms misi-tuk—now written Mystic—the name of the great river of Boston Bay. The origin of the name Menotomy yet awaits explanation.
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 3 (search)
y the General Court the wear at Menotomy, 1633-4. See Wyman's Charlestown, 246, 1043. This wear or fishing dam was in Mystic River, at outlet of Pond. The early transfers of land in the Charlestown part of Menotomy are particularly mentioned in the that flows from the Great Meadows in Lexington, through the present Arlington, into Mystic Pond, near the head of the Mystic River. The privilege is at present owned and occupied in Arlington by Samuel A. Fowle. We have been unable to substantiatemy Field, in 1658. He bought of Jonathan Bunker three acres in Menotomy Field, east Menotomy River, west Field, north Mystic River, 1677 (Wyman, p. 6). It is probable the senior John Adams resided in Concord or Chelmsford previous to his removal phen Robbins land with water-mill and dwelling-house in West Cambridge, 1839. The mill below the Wear Bridge in the Mystic River on the Menotomy side was embraced in a conveyance by Joseph Prout to Jonathan Dunster, 1710. Edward Collins sold the
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 5 (search)
By act of the legislature, Feb. 14, 1821, the provisions of an act passed Feb. 16, 1789, to prevent the destruction of the fish called shad and alewives in Mystic River, within the towns of Cambridge, Charlestown and Medford, were extended to the town of West Cambridge. By this act committees were chosen annually for the prest time. A receiving tomb was built in the new cemetery in 1855. The cemetery was enlarged in 1871-72, by the purchase of a large lot of land extending to the Mystic River, some of which is at present laid out for cemetery purposes. District School Libraries are mentioned in the town records this year. 1845 The Lexingtocourse of the storm was from west to east. The section of its course through West Cambridge was marked with the greatest destruction. It extended across the Mystic River, and entered Medford with unabated force, and continued to the end of its track. The tornado carried up into the air, men, animals and other objects, unroofed
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)
; Seth Russell, bap. 16 Feb. 1800; Esther Peirce, bap. 13 Dec. 1801, d.—Sept. 1802, a. 1; Maria, bap. 23 Oct. 1803, m. Leonard Cutler; Hannah, bap. (privately) 16 Oct., d. 18 Oct. 1806, a. 1. See Wyman, 262. 22. Benjamin, S. of Ammi (11), m. Anna Wyeth, 6 Mar. 1785. He was prob. the Benjamin, laborer, and wife, who went from Cambridge to Charlestown, 1786. She was prob. the Anna, adm. to Pct. ch. 4 Apr. 1802. He resided at a point a few rods west of the bridge across the Wear in Mystic River, between Arlington and Medford, and letters he received were addressed Charlestown, Medford, Menotomy, Charlestown near the Wears Bridge, Charlestown to be left at West Cambridge Post Office, and West Cambridge. His house is not now extant. It was large, three stories high, brick ends, four rooms on a floor, with an excellent cellar under the whole, and built about the end of the last century. The timber for same was to be hewed square and straight, and to be delivered at Medford by t
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., General Index. (search)
ent, commemorative of April 19, 1776, erected 1848, 70, 161, 162; to William and Mary Cutter, 141 Monumental tablets at Arlington, commemorative of April 19, 1776, 69,62, 68, 74, 76, 166 Mortality of the Precinct, 34, 43, 48, 123, 124 Mystic River, origin of name, 3; Street, altered, 155 Naming the several streets, 146 Narrative of the Provincial Congress concerning Battle of April 19, 1776, 64 Negroes, 36, 68, 160 New Almshouse, 1861, 162; Burying Ground, 143, 228; East Dirte and his Bride to Whittemore's Card Factory in 1804, 111 Washingtonian Society, 157 Wear Bridge, mill below on Menotomy side, 18 Weir (or Ware ) Bridge, 18, 39; for alewives in Menotomy River, 1636—since Alewife River or Brook, 6; in Mystic River at Menotomy, 6 Wells in public highways, 143 Welsh Mountains, the, 162 West Cambridge, band, 129, 136; boundaries, 3; congregational minister, right in Harvard College, 3; First Parish, 116-120, 123, 125, 126, 138, 143, 166, 169, 163,