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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 14: civil History. (search)
r even a partial repeal of the obnoxious act, it appears that individuals presented a petition to the General Court; for at a meeting of the subscribers for enclosing and ornamenting Cambridge Common, Jan. 11, 1832, it was voted, to request the Hon. Judge Fay and Prof. Ashmun to attend before the Committee of the Legislature to defend the interests of the subscribers. The appeal to the General Court being ineffectual, as a last resort a petition was presented to the County Commissioners; whereupon the town, voting by ballot, and by a majority of 343 against 111, appointed Judge Story, Judge Fay, and William J. Whipple, to oppose before the County Commissioners, and otherwise, the petition of Jeduthun Wellington and others, for a highway to be laid out over Cambridge Common. The history and result of this petition appear on the records of the Commissioners, January Term, 1835: A petition of Jeduthun Wellington and others for a new highway across Cambridge Common was presented to the