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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)
d. £ 14; returned by the way of Cambridge; called on Mr. Emerson, Mayhew, Gay, Wheelwright. The sea between Boston and Charlestown was as firm for passage as the solid ground. Jan. 4.—Heard Mr. Will. Fessenden twice, Ps. 89:7, and Num. 23: 10—at home. The prudential committee of the Precinct is this year reduced from five members to three. 1743 Out of five deaths recorded in the Northwest Precinct of Cambridge for this year, two were of persons who hanged themselves, viz., Caesar Cutter, servt. of Dea.—who hanged himself—June 26, 1743, aged 30 yrs., and Joseph Bemis—who hanged himself—Aug. 21, 1743. In 1743 it was voted to keep the public school in the Precinct near the meeting-house, on that land which was left for a burying-place, after a convenient house is erected for that purpose, and a committee was chosen to decide on a place for setting the school-house. 1744 Under date of June 28, 1744, Mr. Cooke preached a sermon (numbered 296) which he entitle