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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)
adventures of the night march of the British troops through the present town of Arlington, in Smith's Address, with the exception of one incident. On April 18, 1775, Tuesday, the Committee of Safety and the Committee of Supplies sat at Newell's (more generally Wetherby's) tavern, in Menotomy, A Jacob Newell had a family here, 1766-1769, possibly a former occupant of the tavern.—See Genealogies. Ethan Wetherby married Lucretia Adams, daughter of Capt. Thomas Adams, an innkeeper here, Dec. 31, 1775. The records of the Committees speak of the place as Mr. Wetherby's at the Black Horse, Menotomy.—See Journals of each Provincial Congress of Mass, pp. 515, 516, &c. The following inscription is on a monumental tablet recently erected (1878) to mark the spot where Wetherby's tavern stood: The site of the Black Horse Tavern, where met the Committee of Safety in 1775. while a great number of British officers dined at Cambridge, on the watch to prevent intelligence of Gage's intended exped
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)
an. 1744-5, died aged 104; and by third w. had Lydia, b. 20, bap. 24 Aug. 1755, Menot., m. first, Lemuel Blanchard, and second, Joseph Thorndike, Esq., Jaffrey, N. H., 30 July, 1795; Lucretia, b. 2, bap. 7 Aug. 1757, Menot., m. Ethan Wetherby, 31 Dec. 1775; Ebenezer Thomas, b. 10, bap. 17 Jan. 1762, Menot., m. Polly Goodwin of Charlestown, 20 June, 1784 (Chas. Rec.) See Wyman, 7, 419. Thomas the father is styled gentleman in a deed to Lemuel Blanchard in 1778. [See par. 19, for servants and oth. 21 Dec. 1837. Wesson, Roger, of Mason, N. H., m. Anna Frost, 22 Dec. 1799. See Frost (par. 3). Anna was dism. to the ch. in Mason, 17 Jan. 1808. The name is prob. Weston. See Hist. Mason, N. H. Wetherby, Ethan, m. Lucretia Adams, 31 Dec. 1775. Proprietor of the celebrated Wetherby's Tavern of 19 Apr. 1775. Wheeler, Benjamin, of Concord, m. Lucy Winship, of Lexington, 27 Nov. 1753—fee 3/1 dols. John, of Dover, N. H., m. Rebecca Harris, of Maiden, 12 Mar. 1793. Amos and wife (n