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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 said district, as sufficiently done for the money he has received, and have no other demand on him on account thereof. Wm. Whittemore, Jr., Josiah Whittemore, Caleb Cole, Committee. The Central School House was removed on to the run, or water-course, in the Burying Ground, in 1810. 1803 Oct. 10, 1803, the Precinct voted to build a new meeting-house. The Middlesex Union Society, which met quarterly for the purposes of mutual friendship and improvement, was instituted here Jan. 31, 1803.—Fiske. This is spoken of as a very pleasant social affair, the members meeting at each other's houses. 1804 Jan. 9, 1804, it was voted to build a house seventy feet long and fifty-six feet wide and thirty feet posts, all of wooden materials. Samuel Butterfield, Jeduthun Wellington, George Prentiss, John Adams, and William Whittemore, Jr., were the building committee of the new meeting-house. The old house was sold at auction. The body to William Whittemore, Jr., for $440; the t
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 5 (search)
d, whose wages are from 9 to 10,000 dollars a year. The buildings erected, and property purchased in the town, by the company and persons employed, have been to the amount of at least 30,000 dollars. The purchase of pews by them, in the new meeting-house, paid one eighth part of the expense in building it. A society for social intercourse, friendship and mutual improvement is formed in the midst of us, as a bond of union. A society principally of middle-aged and young men, instituted Jan. 31, 1803, by the name of the Middlesex Union Society, who meet quarterly for the purposes of mutual friendship and improvement. An establishment of a social library West-Cambridge Social Library, established Jan. 1, 1808. There are thirty-one proprietors; it contains now in its infancy 106 volumes, judiciously selected, and is to increase by a certain sum to be furnished by the proprietors annually. affords advantages not heretofore enjoyed. An increase of stores has added to the increase of