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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)
the Genealogies. The following phase of the matter is different from the generally received American accounts, which make these two men martyrs to the cause of American Independence. The account given below of some incidents relating to these two men is extracted from a letter written by the Rev. John Marrett, pastor of the Second Church in Woburn (now Burlington), to his uncle the Rev. Isaiah Dunster, minister of the North Parish of Harwich (now Brewster), dated at the former place July 28, 1775. Both these clergymen were natives of Cambridge and graduates of Harvard College (see Paige, 538, 604). The letter is published entire in a work entitled Henry Dunster and his Descendants, p. 87, &c. The allusions are to the death of Jabez Wyman and Jason Winship, to the adventure of the wife of Deacon Adams, the setting fire to John Cutter's house, the damage to the meeting-house and Mr. Cooke's house, and the killing of Jason Russell and others. As to the two men unarmed that were
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)
was Moses Harrington's son. It runs in my mind there were two of that name killed, but I forget whose son the other was. Letter of Rev. John Marrett of Woburn Second Precinct (now Burlington), to his uncle, Rev. Isaiah Dunster, of Harwich, 28 July, 1775. Jonathan Harrington, Jr., and Caleb Harrington, were two of the ten citizens of Lexington, killed by the King's troops, 19 Apr. 1775, in Lexington. 5. Jonathan and Ruthy Britton, of Camb., m. 10 Nov. 1799. Sol-Omon and Hannah Kendall, of, 22 Dec. 1767. He was s. of Jabez Wyman, of Woburn, and was bap. in Woburn Second Pct. (now Burlington), 26 Dec. 1736. (See Bond's Wat., 976). The Rev. John Marrett, minister of Woburn Second Pct., in a letter to Rev. Isaiah Dunster, dated 28 July, 1775, states Jabez Wyman used to work for Mr. Cooke; which fact is borne out in a deed in the handwriting of the Rev. Samuel Cooke, where Jabez Wyman of Camb., laborer, and wife Lydia in her right, sell to Ammi Cutter, miller, on 23 Mar. 1773, thre