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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)
rd, 194-6. Scammel—was mortally wounded and taken before Yorktown, and died Oct. 6, 1781. Lee, Memoirs of the War, says, This was the severest blow experienced by the allied army throughout the siege; not an officer in our army surpassed in personal worth and professional ability this experienced soldier. Scammel was a native of Massachusetts. This sermon, under the title of The American Revolution in a Nut-Shell, has been published by the present writer, in the Woburn Journal, for April 18, 1874. Heath's Memoirs, p. 325, states that Dec. 13, 1781, was a general Thanksgiving Day. 1783 On June 4, 1783, died the Rev. Samuel Cooke— Faithful Pastor—aged 75 years. The following is copied from the inscription on his family monument in the Precinct burying-ground: The Rev. Mr. Samuel Cooke, Pastor of this Church, in whom were united the social friend, the man of science, the eminent and faithful clergyman whose praise was in all the churches, died 4th June, 1783, in the <