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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 5 (search)
t the old belligerents have fought their last battle, and the new frigates have no other historic interest than what arises from their names. J. B. R. (in Boston Transcript ). Washington, D. C., June 6, 1870. In 1812 the selectmen were directed to petition the General Court in consequence of the grievance the town suffered by the erection of a turnpike-gate on the Middlesex Turnpike in Lexington limits. In 1813 the second inauguration of President Madison was celebrated on the 4th of March by his political friends, with considerable éclat, considering the hard times. Salutes were fired, the church bell rung, and a procession, preceded by the West Cambridge Band, marched through the town, from Major Whittemore's tavern, under Capts. Charles Wellington and Stephen Wheeler, as Marshals, to Tufts's tavern, where they partook of a supper. Col. Russell presided, and the evening was spent very pleasantly with stories, songs and toasts. Of the latter, I remember but one, given b