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Rev. James K. Ewer , Company 3, Third Mass. Cav., Roster of the Third Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment in the war for the Union	192	0	Browse	Search
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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks)	36	0	Browse	Search
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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., I. General History. (search)

ce on Watertown and Waltham line, till it strikes Lexington line; thence on Lexington line till it strikes Woburn line; thence on Woburn and Charlestown line to the little river first mentioned. This act contains the proviso that nothing therein shall be so construed as to impair the right or privilege of the Congregational minister of the town of West Cambridge, which he now holds in Harvard College. The teaching elders of six towns, namely Cambridge, Watertown, Charlestown, Boston, Roxbury and Dorchester, by act of 1642, were to constitute a part of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College. The inhabitants were vested with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties other corporate towns were subject to in this commonwealth. They were to hold a proportion of property owned in common—to pay arrears of taxes, to support their proportion of poor, to support their proportion of the old bridge over Charles River between the First and Third Parishes of Camb

st degree, 1735—kept school part of a year at Roxbury—one year and a part was in the College Butterlborough, 126, for mention of him. and six at Roxbury and Menotomy. In May, 1739, I received a calBoston, at nine o'clock that morning, through Roxbury, and over the Great Bridge to Cambridge, and oy observing it, as the troops passed through Roxbury, made himself extremely merry with the circumGordon, who was pastor of the Third Church in Roxbury (the Jamaica Plain Church), gives also an inte effects. Major-General William Heath, of Roxbury, who on the 18th of April had been sitting wire of a body of militia, which had come from Roxbury, Brookline, Dorcbester, &c. For a few minutesnet. For further mention of Dr. Downer, of Roxbury, see Heath's Memoirs, pp. 32, 34, 200, 201. st degree, 1735—kept school part of a year at Roxbury—one year and a part was in the College Butterreached six months at Marlborough, and six at Roxbury and Menotomy. In May, 1739, I received a ca

e chosen.] 1829, May 20. Frederic H. Hedge ordained minister of Church and Parish, West Cambridge. Dismissed March 9, 1835. A few more particulars, from the records, regarding Dr. Hedge's ministry are inserted in a note. The Rev. Frederic Henry Hedge was ordained minister of the Congregational Church and Parish in West Cambridge, May 20, 1829. The churches invited to assist in his ordination actually represented, were as follows: University Church; Dr. Lowell's, Boston; Third in Roxbury; Church in Brookline; Mr. Emerson's, Boston; Mr. Palfrey's, Boston; Mr. Brazer's, Salem; Church in Watertown; Church in Medford; Church in Brighton; Mr. Ripley's, Waltham; Mr. Whitman's, do.; Church in Lexington; Church in Weston; Church in Cambridgeport. The public services of the occasion were performed by the following persons: Introductory Prayer, Rev. Mr. Austin; Sermon, Rev. Mr. Francis; Ordaining Prayer, Rev. Dr. Gray; Charge, Rev. Dr. Pierce; Right Hand of Fellowship, Rev. Mr. Ripl

one of the early biographers of Washington, Rev. Dr. Bancroft of Worcester, the father of our distinguished historian, I was struck by the statement that in case of attack and defeat, the Welsh Mountains in Cambridge and the rear of the lines in Roxbury were appointed as places of rendezvous. The Welsh Mountains' are the hills which skirt your peaceful valley. Since then I have never looked upon those hills, even at a distance—I have never thought of them—without feeling that they are monumhills as the breast-work behind which he was to retrieve the day. The hills still stand firm and everlasting as when he looked upon them, but smiling now with fertility and peace. The Welsh Mountains near Cambridge, and the rear of the lines at Roxbury, were designated for that purpose. Marshall's Washington, vol. II. p. 230. —Memorandum made by Dr. Benjamin Cutter many years since (died 1864). 1871-72. The Arlington Water Works were constructed. Water Commissioners were elected in 1873<

ackett, Thomas S. and Rebecca Tufts, both Charlestown, m, 19 Apr. 1837. Bradbury, Edward, of Roxbury, and Abigail Hill of Camb. m. 28 Oct. 1804. Bradish, Ebenezer, Jr., A. B. [H. U. 1769], was11 Sept. 1774, d. 26 Aug. 1777, a. 3; Abigail, b. 19, bap. 29 Mar. 1778, m. Edward Bradbury, of Roxbury, 28 Oct. 1804; Joseph, b. 20, bap. 27 Aug. 1780, d. 23 Sept. 1807, a. 26. Samuel the father d.bury, Mass., Jan. 6, 1866. A monument was erected to his memory in Forest Hills Cemetery, Roxbury, Mass., which has a fine medallion and good likeness of the General, with these inscriptions: Heere, 1781. Sullivan, Richard, a pewholder here in 1805. Wyman, 915. Sumner, Catherine, of Roxbury, m. Gershom Cutter, Jr., 23 June, 1786—Cutter (par. 61). Swan, Ebenezer, adm. Pet. ch. at or Ashburnham; Nancy, wife of Richard C. Hastings, of Boston; Harriet, wife of Reuben Winslow, of Roxbury. （4) Joshua, s. of Ebenezer (1), settled about 1813 in Cincinnati, Ohio, and deceased Feb. 1

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