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

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Genealogical Register of the inhabitants of the Second Precinct in Cambridge. Afterward the town of West Cambridge and the town of Arlington.

[182] The Genealogical Register is compiled from the following sources:—

（1) A Church Book given to the Second Church in Cambridge by the Rev. Samuel Cooke, pastor. This book has a list of the members admitted at the gathering of the church 9 Sept. 1739—the admissions to full communion by the church—the admissions to the church by the Rev. Thaddeus Fiske—the members of the Northwest Precinct Church regularly dismissed—the names of those who owned their covenant during Mr. Cooke's ministry, also those during the ministry of Mr. Fiske—and other records relating to the church.

（2) Scattered records of births, baptisms, marriages and deaths in the Northwest Precinct in Cambridge, which included a portion of the upper part of Charlestown afterward annexed to West Cambridge, now Arlington, kept in diaries or other records by the Rev. Samuel Cooke, pastor of the church, with the record of baptisms, marriages, deaths or burials in the same Precinct kept by the Rev. Thaddeus Fiske—and the baptisms, marriages and deaths in West Cambridge recorded by the Rev. D. Damon.

（3) A record of deaths from the more ancient gravestones in the old burying-ground, &c. [183]

abbreviations used:—Adm. refers to admissions to the church; o. c, ‘owned their covenant’—a sort of half-way membership of the church, not an admission to full communion; dism. refers to regular dismissions by the church. Births, baptisms, deaths and marriages are referred to by the usual abbreviations of b. birth, bap. baptism, d. death, m. marriage; g. s. signifies gravestone —generally in the ancient Precinct burying-ground. Such abbreviations as f. for father, a. for son, w. for wife, dau. for daughter, Pct. for Precinct, ch. for church, fun. for funeral, wid. for widow, Camb. for Cambridge, Chas. for Charlestown, and others that might be mentioned, will readily explain themselves.

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Adams, Joseph, who o. c. at Cambridge 9 Dec. 1711, and was adm. Camb. ch. (First Parish) 16 Mar. 1718-19, with w. Rachel joined the Pct. ch. (Second Parish) at its organization 9 Sept. 1739. He was a selectman and assessor of Cambridge five years between 1729 and 1738, and a lieutenant. Styled ‘Father’ by the Rev. Mr. Cooke. He died in the Pct. 18 Oct. 1774, a. 86 (g. s.); his wid. Ra-Chel, with whom he lived in the marriage state fifty-seven years, d. 1 Aug. (fun. 3 Aug.), 1775, a. 85 (g. s.). He was prob. s. of Joseph, and grandson of John Adams, millwright, of Menotomy Row before 1678. His father, Joseph, m. Margaret Eames 21 Feb. 1687-8. She was born in Sudbury 8 July, 1666, dau. of Thomas Eames (see Paige, 539), whose house at Framingham was destroyed 1 Feb. 1675-6, her mother and some of the children killed, and she carried captive (in her childhood) by the Indians. (See Barry, 27, &c., 227.) He m. first, Rebecca, dau. of William Cutter, 18 Jan. 1710-11, who d. 12 Jan. 1717-18, a. 24 (g. s. Cambridge), by whom he had Thomas, b. 3, bap. 9 Dec. 1711, d. 17 Nov. 1713; Thomas (first named Joseph), b. 20, bap. 23 Aug. 1713; Joseph, b. 8 July, 1715 (family record); Margaret, b. 26 May,. 1717 (bap. 2 June, 1717, at Medford), m. Elisha Doubledee, or Doubleday, of (Lebanon) Connecticut, at Medford, 21 Oct. 1736. Joseph Adams was one of the Precinct committee seven years between 1733 and 1753, and Pct. treasurer 1735-50, fifteen years; also Pct. assessor. His second w. Rachel was prob. Rachel Allen of Weston, m. 26 June, 1718 (Bond, 6), by whom he had Rebecca, b. 12, bap. 18 Sept. 1720, adm. Camb. ch. 20 May, 1739, and Pct. ch. 9 Sept. 1739, m. Samuel Kent 27 Nov. 1740; Lucy, b. 29 Oct. bap. 4 Nov. 1722, adm. Pct. ch. 22 Mar. 1741, m. John Cutter, Jr., 21 May, 1745, d. 17 Ap. 1810, see Cutter (par. 9); William, b. 12, bap. 17 Jan. 1724-5; Mary, bap. 2 Ap. 1727, d. young; Anna, b. 8 July, 1729, adm. Pct. ch. 27 Aug. 1749, m. Peter Tufts, Jr., of Charlestown, 19 Apr. 1750, d. 7 Feb. (fun. Medford 10 Feb.) 1813; Mary, b. 12, bap. 20 May, 1733, adm. Pct. ch. 10 Mar. [184] 1751, m. Nathan Tufts, of Charlestown, 6 June, 1751 (she m. second, Richard Clark of Watertown). See Wyman's Charlestown Genealogies and Estates, p. 6, &c.

2. Thomas, s. of Joseph (1), m. Anna, dau. of Ephraim Frost, 22 Sept. 1737. She d. 6 Oct. 1740, at Worcester, where he had removed, having had Joseph, d. 6 Oct. 1740, same time with mother, and buried in same coffin. He m. second, Lydia, dau. of John Chadwick of Wore., who d. there in 1748. He returned to Cambridge, and m. third, Wid. Elizabeth Bowman, 15 Sept. 1754, maiden name perhaps Saunders. He was adm. Pet. ch. from the ch. in Worc. 30 May, 1756; was a capt. in the French War, and tavern-keeper in Menotomy. He was rated here in 1777, but not in 1781. He d. Oct. 1802, in his 90th year. By second w. had Hannah, b. at Worc. 13 Apr. 1743, m. Walter Russell 17 Dec. 1761, and Enos Jones, Ashburnham, 26 Dec. 1790, d. 17 Oct. 1836; John, b. (21, Worc.

Boston: David Clapp and son. 564 Washington Street, 1880.

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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.

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