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The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), The Protestant churches of Cambridge. (search)
7. In that time the third meeting-house was erected where the second had been. Then came the long pastorate of Rev. Nathaniel Appleton, from 1717 to 1784. The fourth meeting-house came in his time, and on the old site. An Episcopal church was oporated, and authorized to settle a minister of its own, and in 1783 a new church was formed. But the great event of Dr. Appleton's ministry was the Revolution and the beginning of the republic. Cambridge had a conspicuous share in all this work oenotomy, a lot of twenty acres in Newton, a farm of 500 acres in Lexington. The Newton and Lexington lands were sold in Appleton's time, and the rest later. The minister was not paid altogether in money. Mr. Brattle wrote in the Church Book: My of the donors: Goody Gove, 1 pd. Fresh Butter, 8d.; Doct. Oliver, a line Pork, 2s.; Sarah Ferguson, 1 pig, 1s. 9d. Mr. Appleton acknowledges gifts made to him: My good friends and neighbors have for several years past, in the fall of the year, br