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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)
, occurred a casualty in the death of Lydia, wife of Nathaniel Fessenden, at the age of 19 years, who was shot awfully! Th We hear from Cambridge that last Wednesday afternoon, Mrs. Fessenden, wife of Mr. Nathaniel Fessenden of that town, was unhMr. Nathaniel Fessenden of that town, was unhappily killed by the following accident, viz.: A number of persons had been shooting at marks, and after they had done went tun went off; but it missing the girl, the ball went in Mrs. Fessenden's eye, lodged in her head, and killed her instantly. Mrs. Fessenden had her infant about nine months old in her lap, which providentially was unhurt. She was the only daughter gun by which she was killed belonged to her husband. Mrs. Fessenden was a woman of unblemished virtue, and her chief ornamFew Thoughts Composed on the Sudden and Awful Death of Mrs. Fessenden, by Mr. Fessenden of Cambridge, have been preserved byMr. Fessenden of Cambridge, have been preserved by her descendants. These set forth her youth and early courtship, and then enter on the subject of her death in these stanzas
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 9 (search)
Oct. 1825, a. 52. Eliza-Beth, of Watertown, m. Samuel Butterfield, 14 July, 1774. Susan, m. William Mann, 24 Jan. 1813. Zaccheus, and Hannah Maria Garfield, of Camb. m. 5 May, 1839. So far the record. Lydia, dau. of Philip (1), m. Nathaniel Fessenden, and was fatally shot, 30 May, 1770, a. 19.—See History of Precinct, under 1770. Betty (or Elizabeth), of Waltham, m. John Frost, and Abigail, of Waltham, m. Cooper Frost. Lydia, prob. of Waltham, m. Amos Frost. Eunice, of Waltham, m. cester, 25 Nov. 1790. Fanny, m. Samuel Cox, 14 Mar. 1793. See Paige, 679, 680; Wyman, 1000, 1001. Watts, Sarah, dau. of John Fillebrown, d. 18 Dec. 1745, a. 42. Samuel, of Woburn, m. Susanna Swan, 4 Apr. 1757. Webb, Elizabeth, m. Nathaniel Fessenden, 20 June, 1771. Sa-Rah (her sister), of Medford, bap. here 4 Oct. 1772, aet. 18. Webber, Jotham, m. Elizabeth Russell, Jr., 12 Mar. 1778. Had Jotham, b. 25 Dec. 1778, bap. 3 Jan. 1779. Elizabeth was dism. from this ch. to the ch. in