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.

Wilson, Andrew, had w. Sarah, who was adm. Pct. ch. at organization, 9 Sept. 1739. She was Sarah Sherman, of Watertown —Paige. Sarah, Jr., dau. of Andrew, was adm. Pct. ch. 13 June, 1742. and m. Jonathan Wyeth, 14 Nov. 1750. Andrew the father d. 20 June, 1757, a. 62. His wid. Sarah d. 27 Nov. 1772, a. 77. Hannah, dau. of Andrew, deceased, was adm. Pct. ch. 3 July, 1757; Katherine—brought up by Andrew—Was adm. Pet. ch. 15 Feb. 1756. Catherine, aged 18 (Wilson, so called), was bap. here 28 Oct. 1753—she m. John Lopus, of Woburn, 6 Nov. 1760. See Wyman, 1039, No. 14.

2. John, bro. of Andrew (1), had w. Martha, who was adm. Pct. ch. at organization, 9 Sept. 1739. Had John, b. 19 Sept., bap. 30 Nov. 1740; Martha, b. 31 Dec. 1742, bap. 2 Jan. 1743, m. Gershom Williams, 6 Feb. 1765; Phebe, b. 8, hap. 19 May, 1745, m. Nathan Swan 21 June, 1770; a dau., b. and bap.——, 1747, perhaps Lydia, who m. Joseph Belknap, Jr., 5 Jan. 1773; Anne, b. 9, bap. 21 Jan. 1750, m. Edward Richardson, of Concord, 16 May, 1771; Susanna, b. 26 Nov., bap. 1 Dec. 1751, m. Gershom Williams 29 Nov. 1806; Josiah, b. 24 Mar., bap. 5 May, 1754. John the father d. of ‘humor in his leg’ 11 Feb. 1773, a 71. Mrs. Martha, his wid., d. 29 Nov. 1797, a. 86.

3. Andrew, s. of Andrew (1), m. Joanna Winship of Chas. this Pct. 5 July, 1757. He o. . c. Pct. ch. 28 May, 1758, and had Andrew, bap. 28 May, 1758; Sarah, bap. 15 July, 1759; Joanna, b. 19 Oct., bap. 7 Dec. 1760, d. 28 Feb. 1780 (Jr.); Benjamin, b. 19 Apr., bap. 15 May, 1763—he belonged to the Baptist Society in the N. W. Pct. 1787. See Wyman, 1039, No. 20.

4. Edward, m. Lucy Francis, of Medford, 23 Nov. 1758. He o. c. Pct. ch. 21 Oct. 1759. Had Joseph, bap. 28 Oct. 1759; Lucy, bap. 25 Jan. 1761; Edward, b. 4, bap. 11 Apr. 1762; Ebenezer, b. 18, bap. 21 Aug. 1763; Rachel, b. 13, bap. 17 Feb. 1765; Samuel, b. 13, bap. 14 Sept. 1766; Nathaniel, b. 17, bap. 21 Feb. 1768; William, b. 28 Oct., bap. 5 Nov. 1769; Aaron, b. 12, bap. 17 Mar. 1771; a son, ‘born with but one hand,’ 16 Dec. 1772—‘lived one day’—(the son of Edward ‘with one hand’ d. 17 Dec. 1772, a. 1 day—Records ); Francis, b. 6, bap. 7 Aug. 1774; Andrew, b. 1, bap. 5 Jan. 1777; Thomas, b. 23, bap. 25 Oct. 1778. Edward the father, in 1770 and 1778, improved the land of the heirs of Andrew Wilson, deceased; then the southern boundary of the land where Samuel A. Fowle's mills now stand, formerly the property of the Cutter family. The Wilson's line on the said estate is mentioned in Cutter deeds of the years 1768 and 1725, and as early as 1686. Robert Wilson, the family ancestor, on 27 Oct. 1665, bought this property of John Brown, of Marlborough. Their land, south of Fowle's mill, belonged to Thomas Russell in 1804. The bridge over the brook on the Woburn road, near Fowle's mill, was known as Wilson's Bridge as late as 1850. See Wyman, 1039, No. 21.

5. John, s. of John (2), m. Susanna Payne, 10 Oct. 1765. Had John, b. 29 Oct., bap. 2 Nov. 1766; Susanna, b. 8, bap. 14 Apr. 1771;