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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 4 (search)
, dying Oct. 8, 1759, aged 58; and Noah, their son, dying Oct. 18, 1759, aged 25 years. On the death of these, the Rev. Mr. Cooke preached a sermon on Nov. 11, 1759, from Ps. 27:10, the original draft being still extant. See Genealogies. The death of Deacon Winship was the occasion of the following event, entered on the Church Records: 1759, Dec. 5. At a Church Meeting, after a sermon preached from Acts 6:3, Thomas Hall and Joseph Adams, Jr., were chosen Deacons; and took their seat Dec. 23d. 1761 No. 703 of Mr. Cooke's manuscript discourses is a sacramental lecture, dated July 12, 1761; repeated Oct. 10, 1773, and Nov. 16, 1777. Text, John 16:32. Sept. 28, 1761, it was voted to prefer a petition to the Great and General Court, praying that we (with those of our neighbors, belonging to several adjacent towns, who are desirous of being joined to us) may with their lands and estates be incorporated with us into a separate district. Capt. Samuel Whittemore, Mr. Joseph