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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)
ing their pewter plates into bullets. Such in substance are the 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 Cambri
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)
S. C., and published the Charleston Courier for many years. It was the most influential journal published in the Southern States.—J. B. R. Wyman's Chas. , 1010, has a notice of the family of Josiah W. Wellman, Thomas T. and Sophia R. Reed, both of Lynnfield, m. 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 (name not given) o. c. here 14 Nov. 1802, and had Mary Ann, bap. 15 Nov. 1802; Lydia and Henrietta, both bap. 8 Dec. 1805. Stephen, m. Sally Whittemore, 24 Aug. 1813; Major Stephen d. 24 Apr. 1825, a. 47. Silas, m. Clarissa Locke, 15 S
The Daily Dispatch: March 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Sentenced to be hung. (search)
Sentenced to be hung. --Last week, Henry, a slave belonging to Mr. Bryan Grimes, of Pitt county, N. C., was tried and convicted on the charge of having murdered Miss Lucretia Adams, a young lady keeping house for Mr. Grimes during his absence in Europe.--He was sentenced to be hung.