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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 4 (search)
be made before incorporation. Liberty was granted to bring in a bill accordingly. In Council June 9, 1762. 1763 The following notice was at this time publicly read in church: Richard Cutter and his Wife desire the name of God may be praised for his great goodness in raising her up from sickness, to so good a measure of health as to attend the public worship of God again. On the back of the notice are notes of a discourse in Mr. Cooke's handwriting, dated Aug. 7, 1763. 1764 On Aug. 3, this year, occurred the death of Hannah Robbins, a dwarf, at the age of 27 years. Mr. Cooke records of her, that she was daughter of Widow Deborah Robbins; and that from about fifteen months of age, she continued the same in stature and understanding to the day of her death; and had the actions of a child of that age; about her tenth year she grew somewhat thicker. A letter of Mr. Cooke's written this year is appended in a note. Rev. Samuel Cooke. To Rev. I. Dunster, minister of
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)
of Aug. 22, 1851.—A little work of 72 pages, entitled The Tornado of 1851, in Medford, West Cambridge and Waltham, Middlesex County, Mass., being a report by Rev. Charles Brooks, and reports by other committees, contains an extended account of this destructive tempest, its general characteristics and particular incidents, relating principally to Medford. The proceedings at a meeting of the citizens of West Cambridge, holden at the vestry of the Unitarian Church, on the evening of August 25, three days after the tornado, at the request of the selectmen, are given in the work. Mansur W. Marsh, chairman of that board, was appointed president, and Moses Proctor, secretary. After remarks by the Hon. James Russell, resolutions appropriate to the occasion were adopted, and a committee was chosen to solicit subscriptions in aid of sufferers, and another committee to make an appraisement of the damages sustained. A committee was also appointed to make a distribution of the moneys collected
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 (search)
ain themselves. A 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. 171