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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)
the Spy-Pond Brook into the Mystic River. The Mystic River, of which the ancient Menotomy River is a branch, has its source in Mystic Pond, which was shown on Wood's Map of Massachusetts in 1633. It almost has its beginning, continuance and end within the limits of Medford, and hence is often called the Medford River. The names of the Mystic and Menotomy Rivers are apparently aboriginal designations, and like all Indian names probably describe the locality to which they were affixed. Trumbull gives the origin of the name Mystic, anciently written Mistick, as applied to the Medford River, thus: Tuk in Indian denotes a river whose waters are driven in waves by the tides or winds. With the adjectival misi, great, it forms misi-tuk—now written Mystic—the name of the great river of Boston Bay. The origin of the name Menotomy yet awaits explanation. The spellings of the word have been various. On Feb. 27, 1807, an act was passed to divide the town of Cambridge, and to incorpora
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., Index of names. (search)
219, 264, 309 Thompson, 111, 112, 129, 131, 169, 178,202,251, 264, 266, 272, 309, 310, 335, 349 Thorndike, 184, 194,252, 310 Thornton, 43, 44, 252, 310 Thorp and Thorpe, 140, 143, 154, 157, 225, 250, 310, 340, 341, 346 Thurston, 341 Tidd, 58 Tierney, 345 Timney, 345 Tingley, 171, 176 Tisdale, 193, 310 Tobey, 343 Todd, 276, 310 Torrey, 224 Towne, 5 Townsend, 71, 72 Trask, 58, 166, 219, 286, 310, 346, 350 Trowbridge, 161, 173 Trull, 18 Trumbull, 3 Tufts, 17,18, 19,110,112, 116, 120, 121,122, 128, 130, 131, 133, 136, 137, 139, 170, 171, 176, 183-85, 187, 196, 199, 200, 204, 205, 211-13, 217, 218, 223, 233, 234, 238, 244, 246, 248,250, 254, 262, 264, 265, 270, 272, 277, 281, 282, 286,288, 295-97, 302-04, 307, 310-12, 320, 321, 349 Tukey, 343 Turell, 24, 25, 30, 33 Turner, 145, 189,312, 339 Tuttle, 301, 307, 312 Twaddle, 249, 312 Tynan, 345 Underwood, 172,299,312, 328 Usher, 296 Vaughan, 14 Verry, 220