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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)
day. I have myself, fortunately, escaped very well, having only had a horse shot. Poor Lt. Col.'s Smith and Barnard are both wounded, but not badly. * * * * Among the unnamed losses on the 19th, Mr. Cooke may have lost his canonicals, if the appended story is correct: In Wisner's History of the Old South, Boston, p. 108, is an anecdote relative to the British desecration of the Old South Meeting House, quoted from the Recollections of a Bostonian, in the Columbian Centinel of Nov. 17, 1821. I was told that a ludicrous scene took place in the course of the preceding winter. A good old woman that frequently passed the church, was in the habit of stopping at the door, and with loud lamentations (amidst the hootings of the soldiery) bewailed the desolation of the house of prayer. She denounced on them the vengeance of Heaven, and assured them that good old Doctor Sewall, the former Parson of the Church, would rise from his grave and carry them off. A Scotch sentinel was one