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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)
by certain bounds in the said petition mentioned. The towns interested were Cambridge, Charlestown, Watertown, Woburn, Lexington and Medford, all of which were ordered to be duly notified. The legislative report was in substance as follows: The following report was made to the two Houses, viz.,—The committee to whom was referred the petition of the Inhabitants of the Second Precinct in Cambridge, together with Edward Winship and Edward Winship, Jr., of Lexington, William Symmes and Josiah Symmes of Medford, Henry Putnam, Henry Gardner, Thomas Hutchinson and Benjamin Teel and Benjamin Teel, Jr., of Charlestown, Samuel Carter and Samuel Carter, Jr., of Woburn; praying they may be incorporated into a Town, or District, by the bounds therein mentioned, have considered the same, with the answers from the several towns they now respectively belong to; have likewise heard all the parties concerned, and beg leave to report as their opinion, that the prayer of the petition be so far gran