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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)
ninety-eight years of age. A sketch of him is given in the Genealogies. He was a prominent citizen of the Precinct, and the progenitor of a great portion of the Whittemore family here. Paige, in his Hist. Camb., devotes considerable attention to him. A descendant, T. J. Whittemore, of Englewood, N. J., communicates the following, which has already been printed: Capt. Samuel Whittemore.—April 19, 1775.—Mr. Editor,—I find the following notice in the Columbian Centinel, viz.: Feby. 6, 1793.—Died—At Menotomy, Feby. 2 (1793), Capt. Samuel Whittemore, Ae. 99. The many and moral virtues, in all the various relations of Brother, Husband, Father and Friend, were invariably exhibited in this gentleman. He was not more remarkable for his longevity, than his number of descendants (his progeny being 185), one of which is the 5th generation. When the British troops marched to Lexington (Ap. 19, 1775), he was 81 years of age, and one of the first on the parade; he was armed wit