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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 5 (search)
ms yearly has been about twenty. In 1805 uncommon attention to the ordinance was awakened and excited. This year many whole households were baptized, and increased the number to sixty-three. Eighteen adult persons, several of whom were heads of families, consecrated themselves and their children unto God, in this holy ordinance. of which number thirty-one were adult persons. Three hundred and forty-three have died; of this number two lived to the great age of one hundred and one years [Anna Winship, d. Feb. 2, 1806, and Thomas Williams, d. Feb. 5, 1809]; four between ninety and one hundred; nineteen between eighty and ninety; and twenty-six between seventy and eighty; hence fifty-one reached or survived seventy years. From this statement it appears, that a proportion of about one in six lived to or beyond the common term of life. Though a temperate, regular and simple mode of living, the mode of former days, rather than the present, may contribute to long life, and one place be mo
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)
f Charles C. Little and James Brown, publishers, Boston. He died March 10, 1866. Erastus and Anna Winship of Lexington, 22 Oct. 1826. Edmund M., of Lexington, and Harriet W. Whitney of W. Camb. 1 Ma Anna Cutter, and in consideration of her husband assuming the maintenance of her grandmother Anna Winship, who d. in 1806, aged 101, the estate was relinquished by the heirs to him, after 1784. Benjwho proved to be very numerous.—See Appendix to Cut-ter Book for a copy of the settlement. Anna Winship, widow of Joseph Winship, of Charlestown, and mother of Mrs. Mary Wyeth, d. 2 Feb. 1806, a. 1as glad to hear of the welfare of his friends at Charlestown, and also of his grandmother, Mrs. Anna Winship. His brother John Wyeth was postmaster at Harrisburg, and treated him well during this vie left Pennsylvania about 21 Aug. previous. He had heard of the death of his grandmother, Mrs. Anna Winship, which occurred on 2 Feb. 1806, at the age of 101. He was at Harrisburg about the 25th of