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under the name of West Cambridge, Mass. Spec. Laws, IV. 88. which name was changed to Arlington, April 20, 1867. Ibid., XII. 244. The inhabitants of the territory left on the south side of Charles River petitioned to be made a separate precinct, as early as 1748, and renewed their petition, from time to time, until April 2, 1779, when they were authorized to bring in a bill to incorporate them as an ecclesiastical parish, excepting Samuel Sparhawk, John Gardner, Joanna Gardner, and Moses Griggs, and their estates. Mass. Prov. Rec., XXXIX. 213. This was styled the Third Parish, or Little Cambridge. The whole territory south of Charles River was incorporated, under the name of Brighton, Feb. 24, 1837. Mass. Spec. Laws, IV. 70. By an act approved May 21, 1873, Brighton was annexed to Boston,β€”the annexation to take full effect on the first Monday in January, 1874. By the incorporation of West Cambridge and Brighton, which was the result of an amicable agreement between the s
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 15: ecclesiastical History. (search)
t last, nearly half a century after the commencement of regular religious services (for the winter), and about thirty-five years after the erection of a meeting-house in which public worship was offered throughout the year, the inhabitants on the south side of the river were incorporated by the General Court, April, 1779, as a separate precinct with authority to settle a minister, and to provide for his support by a parish tax,β€” excepting Samuel Sparhawk, John Gardner, Joanna Gardner, and Moses Griggs, and their estates, who shall be exempted from all ministerial taxes to said precinct, so long as they shall live or reside within the same, or until they or either of them shall give their hands into the Secretary's Office of this State, desiring that they with their estates may be considered as part of said precinct. The subsequent proceedings are related by Dr. Holmes in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc., VII., 36, 37: In 1780, the church members on the south side of Charles River in Cambridge
Caleb Coolidge3 Ezekiel Comee5 Samuel Champney4 Daniel Dana4 Mr. Wells^ Benjamin Dana6 Josiah Sanderson2 Moses Robbins7 John Stratton6 Jonas White2 Samuel Zeagars, white8 blacks, 2. Stephen Dana4 Jonathan Park5 Silas Robbins5 Benjamin Faneuil, Esq., white4 blacks, 3. John Tudor, white4 black, 1 Thomas Sparhawk, Esq., white8 black, 2. James Robbins4 Benjamin Hill7 Phinehas Robbins6 David Ross3 Edmund Horton6 Samuel Sparhawk10 Edward Hastings, white7 black, 1. Moses Griggs6 Maj. John Gardner, white8 black, 2 Ezra Comee5 Michael Taylor3 The foregoing enumeration is preserved in the City Clerk's Office. It is manifest that, in the last section, the whole number of inhabitants is included, instead of ratable polls as in the first and second sections. On a separate paper in the same file, this memorandum is found: The whole number of polls on the south side of Charles River in Little Cambridge, from sixteen years of age and upwards, 66 whites, 4 black
80-1785, 1792 -1802, 1805. Samuel Whittemore 3d, 1780. Ebenezer Seaver, 1780. Ebenezer Wyeth, 1781-1785, 1789, 1790. John Adams, 1781, 1782, 1791-1795. Ephraim Frost, Jr., 1783-1788. Daniel Dana, 1783. Jonathan Winship, 1784-1789, 1793, 1794. William Winthrop, 1786, 1789-1791, 1793, 1794, 1799, 1800-1802. Walter Dickson, 1786-1788, 1791, 1792. Samuel Butterfield, 1787, 1788. Ephraim Cook, 1789, 1790. Samuel Locke, 1789, 1790. James Robbins, 1789. Moses Griggs, 1790-1792. Richard Richardson, 1791-1795. George Prentiss, 1791, 1792. John Walton, 1793, 1794, 1796-1798, 1809-1811. Tim. L. Jennison, 1795, 1806, 1817. Dr. Aaron Hill, 1795-1805, 1807. Nathaniel Champney, 1795-1801, 1806. Ebenezer Brown, 1795-1801, 1803– 1805. William Locke, 1796-1802. Ebenezer Hall, 1802-1804. James Frost, 1802-1805, 1807. Dudley Hardy, 1802-1806. Thomas Mason, 1802, 1811-1814. John Holbrook, 1802. Daniel Mason, 1803-1805. Will
oodwin, 32, 248, 53, 4. Gookin, 57, 64, 6-8, 72, 7, 8, 96, 104, 6, 9, 17, 25-7, 31, 269, 78-82, 6, 346, 7, 86– 95, 8, 9, 400, 3. Gorton, 397, 402. Gossom, 75. Gould, 279. Gove, 75, 97, 108. Grant, 33, 133, 292, 324. Granville, 320. Graves, 2, 279. Green, 33, 5, 43, 4, 58, 9, 75, 103, 25, 239, 52, 63, 73, 322, 7, 34, 57, 63, 4, 77, 98, 402, 22. Greenhill, 33. Greenleaf, 310, 28, 39. Greenough, 310. Greenwood, 80, 92, 231, 328, 9. Griffing, 321, 30. Griggs, 5, 200, 95. Griswold, 35, 40, 258. Grover, 326. Gushee, 328. Haddon, 11, 32, 75. Hadley, 202. Hale, 116, 354-6. Hall, 45, 54, 8, 9, 75, 150, 252, 5, 405, 41, 64, 73, 416. Hallett, 329. Hallowell, 155. Hamlet, 59. Hammond, 59, 76, 81, 5, 96, 7, 126, 210, 11, 400, 19. Hanchet, 76, 81. Hancock, 33, 58, 75, 97, 212, 25, 7, 31, 91, 3, 4, 305, 13, 69. Handy, 403. Hanford, 130. Harlakenden, 34-6, 40-3, 52, 3, 119, 74, 250, 4, 396. Harlow, 177.
Corey. Leah. Munroe. Cooke, 513-16. Annesley. Barrett. Bowes. Bradish. Bradshaw. Cawthorne. Cotton. Crosby. Dickson. Dunster. Farley. Foss. Fownell. Frost. Goodwin. Gookin. Gorton. Griggs. Hale. Hall. Hancock. Harlakenden. Haskins. Johnson. Lamson. Milledge. Mullett. Perry. Porter. Prentice. Quick. Read. Remington. Russell. Sanderson. Shepard. Stedman. Stevens. Stratto. Holden. Moulton. Parke. Kendall, 595. Holley. Jackson. Kenrick, 595, 6. Hyde. Jackson. Metcalf. Kidder, 596, 7. Bartlett. Bowman. Brown. Cooper. Crosby. Danforth. Frothingham. Goddard. Griggs. Hunnewell Hyde. Jackson. Kettle. Lopez. Moore. Parker. Prentice. Sigourney. Sprague. Tompson. Underwood. Winship. Knight, 597. Betts. Shaw. Simpkins. Knowles, 597. Lamson, 597. Bridge.