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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 14: civil History. (search)
given and applied (so far as they shall be wanted) to that use, together with the town's proportion of the present Court House. On the 29th of the same month, the Proprietors voted to grant land, not exceeding one quarter of an acre, whereon to erect a new Court House, the place to be determined by a joint committee of the proprietors, of the town, and of the Court of Sessions. At length a lot of land, where Lyceum Hall now stands, was purchased of Caleb Prentice, who conveyed the same Nov. 5, 1757, to William Brattle, Andrew Bordman, and Edmund Trowbridge, for the use of the town of Cambridge, and county of Middlesex, for erecting and continuing a Court House upon forever hereafter. On this lot a house was erected, more spacious than the former, and was occupied by the courts more than half a century. An attempt was afterwards made to erect another edifice in the centre of Harvard Square; and the Proprietors voted, June 14, 1784, to give and grant to the town of Cambridge, for ev