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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)
one, The Rev. Thomas Prentice, H. U. 1726, was installed minister at Charlestown, 1739. He was a native of Cambridge, and was first settled at Arundel, now Kennebunk, Maine. He received three invitations for settlement on his return to Cambridge,—from the New North Church, Boston, from Menotomy, and from Charletown, the last of which he accepted, and the same day declined the other two (Budington, Hist. First Ch Charlestown, 234). See Wyman's Chs 774; Paige's Camb. 632. and hence on May 21, 1739, the day Mr. Prentice's answer was publicly read, Mr. Cooke was unanimously chosen minister. 1739 The organization of the church was accomplished. The particulars are found in A Church Book given to the Second Church in Cambridge by Samuel Cooke, Pastor. 1739, May 21. The Second Precinct in Cambridge made choice of Mr. Samuel Cooke for their Pastor. July 2. Mr. Cooke accepted of their invitation to the work of the Gospel ministry. Sept. 9 (being Lord's day). A Church wa
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)
81—m. Eunice Palmer. 7 May, 1807, and had a child, d. 19 Mar. 1817, a. 3 mos. Ephraim, prob. he, d. 5 Aug. 1835, a. about 50. （Eunice, widow of Ephraim Cook, d. 9 Nov. 1856, a. 75.) 12. Joseph, Jr., of Camb., m. Margaret Dickson of Charlestown, 13 May, 1756—fee 18s,; Abigail, dau. of Joseph, bap. 18 Feb. 1759. See Wyman, 236, group 18. Sarah m. Henry Dickson, 13 Nov. 1774, (See Paige, 515.) 13. Samuel, Pastor, made choice of by the Second Precinct in Cambridge for that office, 21 May, 1739; accepted of their invitation to the work of the gospel ministry, 2 July, 1739; became a member of the church at its organization, 9 Sept. 1739; and on 12 Sept. 1739, was ordained pastor of this church and congregation. The First Church in Cambridge, and the churches of Lexington, Medford and Watertown, assisted in that solemnity. Such is the substance of his record of these transactions in the Church Book given by him to the Second Church in Cambridge. Rev. Samuel Cooke—faithful pa