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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)
1734. His estate in this neighborhood was taxed in 1727 and 1736. See Wyman's Charlestown, 874-5. He was father-in-law of President John Adams. Rev. John Whiting mentioned in this year, like Dr. Appleton, may have been a proprietor of lands in the Precinct only, and non-resident. Thomas Whittemore's intention to fence land belonging to Mr. John Whiting, by Cambridge Rocks, mentioned, 1702-3.—Proprietors' Records. Rev. John Whiting, of Concord, is mentioned in same records, 1767. May 1, 1734, one hundred pounds was granted by vote to support preaching the present year. A gift of fifty pounds from various individuals in 1734 was made toward building the meeting-house. Capt. Samuel Hendley, named on records here in 1733, gave fifteen pounds of this amount;—a forgotten benefactor of the Precinct. For sketch of Hendley and descendants, see Wyman's Charlestown Genealogies and Estates, pp. 493, 494. A wealthy family. 1735 On the first day of Feb. 1735, the first meeti