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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)
port makes fifteen pages of a small blank book. —Letter of J. B. Russell. This was probably a neighborhood meeting, preliminary to a regular Precinct meeting. 1792, April 19. At a church meeting, after a sermon preached from Acts 6:3, Ephraim Frost, Jr. and John Adams were chosen deacons, and took their seat May 20.—Church Records. 1793 Liberty was given to set a number of trees, &c., around the meeting-house, in this Precinct, under the direction of the committee. 1794 Phineas Child was chosen sexton, and continued in that office till 1807. His salary was ten dollars in 1799. He died April 19, 1807, aged 53, and on April 20, 1807, his successor was appointed. See 1807. 1795 A committee chosen to paint the meeting-house, and directed to paint the outside of said house the same color as Mr. Thomas Russell's, and the inside a stone color. Mr. Fiske published a Thanksgiving Discourse, 1795.— Sprague's Annals, i. 519. The title is as follows: Thanksgiving <