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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)
eeting-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 and Prayer for Public Rulers, recommended in a Discourse, delivered at the Second Parish in Cambridge, February 19, 1796, being the day of National Thanksgiving in the United States. By Thaddeus Fiske, A. M., Pastor of the Second Church in Cambridge. Published by Request of the Hearers. Boston, Mdccxcv: Pp. 20. Another published discourse of his soon after was A Sermon delivered December 29, 1799, at the