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Sawmill, dam for, in 1703, suit, &c, 16
School Committee, 108, 109, 121, 138, 139, 140, 142, 171, 172, 173
Schoolhouses, in the Precinct, 17, 19, 21, 22, 24, 32, 33, 41-43, 46, 73, 108, 110; in W. Cambridge, 116,122,130, 131, 137-139, 141-143, 152, 154, 156, 157, 158, 160; in Arlington, 163, 166; burned, 160, 163; in Eastern District, 122,130,143,162; in Northwest District, 139, 142, 158, 160; in South District, 131, 143
Schools, 22, 24, 32, 41, 43, 48, 108,121, 131, 137, 139, 140,141-143, 148,154, 157; High School, 158, 159, 165; superintendent of, 169
Sealer of leather first chosen, 122
Seating the meeting-house, 94, 95
Second or Northwest Precinct in Cambridge, boundaries, 2, 104; church organized, and first minister settled, 26, 28, 29, 30, 90, 126; early preachers, 23, 24, 25; fifty years since founded, 46; first child baptized, 22; first precinct meeting, 21; incorporated as town of West Cambridge, 3, 114, 126; incorporated with part of Charlestown as the District of Menotomy, 3, 38, 39; meeting-house built, 23; meeting-house dedicated, 23, 24; new meeting-house, 110; preaching in, 21, 23; second minister settled, 106, 106, 107; set off as a distinct parish, 2
Sermon, at Rev. Mr. Cooke's ordination, by Rev. E. Turell, 30; by President Langdon at Watertown, cited, 66
Sermons by Mr. Cooke, 32-37, 39, 41-47, 49-51, 57, 84-89, 93, 94, 98-100; by Rev. Mr. Fiske, 107, 108, 122-128
Sexton, 107, 108, 114, 143
Sheds at Old Cambridge for Menotomy residents, 20; on parish land, 117, 141
Shooting of a woman in Menotomy in 1770, 42
Sidewalks, 141
Singing, 49, 109, 111, 113, 114, 242; school, 114, 116
Sketch of Major Ingalls, 157, 158; of Rev. S. A. Smith, 169: of Thomas Adams, 149, 160
Smith's ‘West Cambridge on the 19th of April, 1775,’ 66, 77, 78, 160
Snake hunt, 31
Soldiers in war of 1676, 18,19; enlisted in 1775, 67; war of 1861-65, 339-51
Sons of Temperance, 157
Squa Sachem's Reservation west of Mystic Ponds, 7
State Records, 1, 2, 4, 38
St. John's Church, 179
St. Malachy's Church, 179
Stone house on training field, 145
Stores in West Cambridge, 130
Stoves in meeting-house, 116, 117
Stranger found dead in woods, 33
Streets first lighted with gas by town, 155
Streets, survey of, 145
Suicides, 32, 124
Surrender of Cornwallis, 98, 100; of Fort William Henry, 35
Tax, list for Menotomy, A. D. 1781, 95-97; payers of, in Menotomy, in 1688, 19
Thatcher's (Capt.) Cambridge militia company, April 19, 1775, 66, 67
Tombs in Burying Ground, 116
Tornado of Aug. 22, 1861, 152-54
Town, clock, 166,163; fire implements, 137, 139; house built, 154; meeting of West Cambridge, 120, 121; officers of Arlington, 170-173; of West Cambridge, 120, 121; pound, 121, 131, 138, 141; record of births, &c, in first town book, 139; report, the first printed, 130-32; safe, 152
Train band, 41, 46, 84
Training field, 146
Transfer of land, the former southeast corner of Arlington, 1729, 9
Union Grammar School District, 154; School District divided, 152, 154
Universal and Universalist Society, 117,119, 176, 177
Visit of Jerome Bonaparte 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, 174; Five
Boston: David Clapp and son. 564 Washington Street, 1880.
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