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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Do not inquire into the great grief of your friends,
The fates only show him on the earth;
And permit him not to exist longer.
Jesus wept.

8. Stephen, s. of Ephraim (3), m. Susanna Brown, 20 Dec. 1772, He o. c. Pct. ch. 5 Dec. 1773. Had Susanna, b. 18 Nov., bap. 5 Dec. 1773, died young; Stephen, b. 14 Sept., bap. 8 Oct. 1775; Jonathan, b. 6, bap. 14 Dec. 1777; Susanna, b. 26, bap. 29 Aug. 1779, adm. Pct. ch. 31 May, 1801, m. Josiah Locke, Jr. . 30 Jan. 1803; Abigail, bap. 14 Oct. 1781, m. Putnam Spaulding of Medford, 26 June, 1808; Frances, d.—‘Miss Frances, dau. of Capt. Stephen and Susanna’— (10) 16 Feb. 1816, a. 25, or 28 (g. s.); Daniel, bap. 7 Nov. 1790; Mary, bap. 26 Aug. 1792. A dau. Lucy Brown, m. Jonathan Frost, 2d, 13 May, 1816—see par. 24. Stephen the father was ensign of Capt. Benjamin Locke's company of Menotomy minute-men, 1775, and lieutenant in the Revolutionary Army, 1777; in 1779 was captain, a title he bore the rest of his life. Mrs. Susanna, his w., d. 15 Oct. 1800, a. 50 (g. s.). Capt. Stephen Frost was a Pct. assessor, 1796, 1797. He d. (31 Oct.) 1 Nov. 1810, a. 64 (g. s. 63).

9. John, s. of Ephraim (3), m. Susanna Hill, Jr., 21 Nov. 1780; styled ‘Jr.,’ and sometimes called ‘Money John’—marriage fee $25. He and w. Susanna o. c. Pct. ch. 4 Feb. 1781. Had Susanna, hap. 4 Mar. 1781, m. Amos Warren, Jr., of Charlestown, 19 Dec. 1802; Anna, b. 25 Jan., bap. 2 Feb. 1783, m. Lathrop Perkins, 16 Apr. 1809; John (see par. 23); Jonathan, bap. 1 Mar. 1789; Asa, bap. 7 Nov. 1790; Isaac, bap. 16 Dec. 1792; Mary, bap. 21 Dec. 1794; infant, d. 6 June, 1801, a. 4 mos.; also Eliza and Lavinia, bap. 20 Mar. 1803; John, bap. 14 Feb. 1808. John the father d. 15 May, 1812, a. 52 (g. s.); his w. Susanna d. (29) 30 Sept. 1804, a. 44 (g. s.).

10. Amos, s. of Ephraim (3), and w. Lydia, adm. Pct. ch. 1 June, 1788; had Amos, bap. 1 June, 1788, d. (unm.) 18 June, 1812, a. 25; Joel, bap. 1 Mar. 17.89; Thaddeus, bap. 11 Dec. 1791, d. 4 Oct. 1792, a. 10 mos.; Lydia, bap. 24 Nov. 1793; Thaddeus, bap. 7 Feb. 1796; William, bap. 3 Dec. 1797; Abijah, bap. 13 Oct. 1799; Susan, bap. 6 Sept. 1801, m. Thomas Teel, of Charlestown, 24 Mar. 1822; Mary Locke, bap. 28 Aug. 1803, m. Joseph Teel, of Charlestown, 23 Mar. 1823; Emily, bap. 12 Oct. 1806. The w. of Amos the father was Lydia Bemis—see Bond's Wat., 24. He d. 25 Feb. 1850, a. 88; she d. 19 Feb. 1855, a. 87.

11. Samuel, s. of Samuel (4), adm. Pct. ch. 30 Mar. 1766, d. 24 Apr. 1790, a. 47.

12. John, s. of Samuel (4), and———, wife of John, were adm. Pct. ch. 23 May, 1779. She was Betty Bemis of Waltham, m. 6 July, 1775 (Bond's Wat., 22-3). Mrs. Betty, w. of John, d. 18 (19) Mar. 1802, a. 51 (g. s.). He m. Mrs. Elizabeth Robbins, 9 Nov. 1802, who d. 1 May, 1813, a. 49. He m. Sally Winship, of Lexington, 1 Aug. 1813, and a son John m. two sisters of the father's third wife (see par. 31). Sally was adm. Pct. ch. 29 Aug. 1813, and