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Abstract of births, &c, 1739-1783, 101, 102
Act for establishing Fire Department, 155
Action of the town during last war with
Great Britain, 136
Adams's (
Capt.) company in French War, 36, 37, 184
Admissions to, and dismissions from the
Church, 101, 123, 125, 242
Agricultural characteristics of the inhabitants, 148
Amount contributed by the town during the war, 1861-65, 159
Anecdote of
Rev. Mr. Cooke's canonicals lost, 82, 83
Answer of
Rev. Thaddeus Fiske, to call for settlement, 1788, 106; his ordination, 107,123, 124
Antipedo-baptists, 48
Area of Second Parish in
Cambridge, 110
Arlington, Advocate, newspaper, 164; Heights, 130, 163-165; celebration of change of name, remarks by
Hon.
Charles Sumner, 161, 162; Land Company, 163, 164; name of
West Cambridge changed to, 4,160; Public Library, 142, 163, 165; Schools, 163, 165; Water Works, 162, 163
Autobiography of
Rev. Samuel Cooke, 29, 31, 89-92
Baptists, 49, 86, 104-106, 125,133,176, 176
Baptist Society, 175, 176
Bass viol, 109, 114, 116, 242
Bathing tub, 136
Battle (
Capt.) of
Dedham, detailed with his company, April 20, 1775, 70, 79
Battle of April 19, 1775, 62-83, 85, 93, 99, 121, 147
Belfry, church, 22, 48, 85, 101, 110, 116
Bell, parish, 34, 48, 101, 108, 114, 116, 122, 131, 136, 138, 142
Beverly men in action, April 19, 1775, 68, 71, 73
Births, abstracts of 101, 102
Black Horse Tavern, at
Menotomy, 59
Book of Psalms and Hymns, 127
British Military occupation of
Boston, 43, 46, 46, 47, 60, 82, 99; officer's account of the Battle of April 19, 1776, 54-56; British private soldiers' letters, 55; wagon train captured, 61, 62, 63
Bull's Creek, 11
Burying cloth, 34, 103
Burying Place, 12, 22, 32, 41, 45-47, 69, 70, 77, 100, 101, 109, 110, 113, 116, 139-141, 143, 151, 166, 177
Calls for men for the war, 1861-1866, 167, 158, 169
Cambridge, Commons, reservations and grants from, 19, 22, 41; First Church and Parish, 1, 3, 20, 23, 24, 28, 29, 104, 107, 119, 126, 164; Northwest Inhabitants, messes, 92, 93; Northwest Inhabitants, petitions, 1, 2, 37, 38, 39, 113; Northwest Precinct Book, 21, 29, 43, 92, 93, 94,106, 107, 112, 117; Second Church, 25-29, 73, 90, 101, 103, 106, 106, 107, 117-120, 126; Third Parish (now
Brighton), 3, 100, 107
Capture of
Burgoyne and army, 100
Card manufactory, 109, 111, 127, 130, 139
Celebrations of change of name to
Arlington, 161, 162
Centenarians, 36, 37, 123, 149, 184, 186
Centennial Celebration of the 19th of April, 1775, 164
Central School House, 110, 116, 131, 143, 164, 167, 168
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Charlestown line, ancient location, 8
Charlestown neighbors, 21, 22, 38, 39
Chesapeake and
Shannon, naval battle, 134, 135
Choice of successor to
Rev. Mr. Cooke, 104, 105
Church covenants, 25, 119
Circle Hill (now
Arlington Heights), 163
Citizens in Mass. 5th Regt., 1861, 157
Clock in tower of meeting-house, 116, 126
Collector, security required of, 104
Combat between
Dr. Downer and a British soldier, April 19, 1776, 66
Commission to
Stephen Frost from the Provincial Congress, 68
Committee, of
Cambridge, 2; of Safety at
Menotomy, April 18 and 19, 1776, 69, 60, 65; to confer with
Cambridge relative to a separate town, 113; to inspect behavior of young people in church, 34
Congregational minister of
West Cambridge, right in Harvard College, 3
Congregational Unitarian Society at
Belmont, 174
Constable, thanks to, 164
Convers,
James, deposition concerning Cooke's mill, 15, 16
Cooke,
Rev. Samuel, ordained pastor, 28; his death, 101; funeral expenses paid by Precinct, 103; his remarks fourth year after battle of 1775, 93; autobiography of, 89-92
Cooke's mills at
Menotomy (established before 1638) and estate, 6-9, 11-13, 16, 16, 147
Cooke's mill lane, 11
Cotting Academy, 168, 209
Cotting High School, 209
Courtship, an old time description of, 160, 161
Cutter
School House, 168, 160
Cutter,
William, School Fund, 142, 219
Dam above old mill pond, 1703, 16
Damage to property by the
British troops, April 19, 1775, 65, 73-7, 79
Damon,
Rev. David, installation of, 117, 119; death of, and obituary, 226
Danvers men in action at
Menotomy, April 19, 1775, 63, 66-71, 72, 73
Deacons chosen, 28, 37, 108, 118, 119, 124
Death, of a dwarf 39; of
Rev. Thaddeus Fiske, 240; of
Daniel Townsend, of
Lynnfield, at
Menotomy, 19 April, 1775, 71, 72; of
General Washington, 108; of
Hon. Charles Sumner, 164; of
Jason Russell, April 19, 1775, 68-70, 74, 75; of
Rev. Samuel Cooke, 101
Deaths of three members of the Winship family, 37
Decoration Day, Celebration of; 1879, 165, 166
Dedication of new meeting-house, 1806, 112, 126, 127
Deposition of
Benjamin and
Rachel Cooper in regard to the killing of
Wyman and
Winship, 74; of
Hannah Bradish, 64, 196
Diary of
Rev. John Marrett cited, 84, 86
District School libraries, 143
Dogs first licensed, 162
Draft of 44 men in 1863, 168
Drill Club, 158
Drowning of
James Robbins, 44
Dudleian Lecture, by
Rev. Mr. Cooke, 41; by
Rev. Mr. Damon, 228
Earthquakes, 45, 46
Eclipse of the sun, 1757, 35, 36
Evening Sermons, 31, 46
Experience of
Hannah Adams, April 19, 1775, 66, 74, 75, 185
Farm of
John Adams, 1664, 9
Farms granted in
Arlington and
Lexington by
Cambridge inhabitants, 1635, 6
Fence to secure the corn of the Indians, 1643, 6
Fenceviewers for Menotomy Fields, 1649, 9
Fielddriver for Menotomy Fields, 9
Fine for cutting trees or timber in 1647, 8
Fire Department established, 166; engines, 139, 140, 141, 143, 165
Fire on
Walter Russell's estate, 155
First and second anniversary celebrations of the
Battle of Lexington, 84, 86; First Congregational parish, 174; first armed resistance to British aggression as shown here, 48
Fish, act concerning, 132, 138, 139
Fishing in Menotomy River, lawsuit, &c., 9
Fiske,
Rev. Thaddeus, his ordination, 107, 123, 124; resignation of; 117, 118; sermons, 107, 108, 123; death of, and obituary notice, 240
Five Cents Savings Bank, 655
Flagstaff donated, 160
Fourth of July Celebration, in 1808, 121, 122; in 1842, 228
Friendship fire engine, 139, 143
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Gage,
Gen., his official return of the action of April 19, 1775, 52, 53, 54
Gale, destructive, in 1871, 163, 174
Galleries in meeting-house, 34, 35, 49, 94, 101, 115, 126
Gas Light Company, 155
General School Committee, 140
Gift, of
Rebecca Whitmore, 29; toward building first meeting-house, 23
Gould,
Lieut., made prisoner, April 19, 1775, 63, 64, 77, 81
Grant by certain inhabitants of
Charlestown to
President of Harvard College, 8; to
West Cambridge, of all lands belonging to the Proprietors of
Cambridge, 20; to
Widow Rolfe, to make a dam above old mill pond, 12, 14, 16
Great Road to
Concord, allowance for highway, 9; Swamp by Menotomy River, allotments near, 9
Guide posts, 143
Hall of
Thomas Russell, 111
Hayscales, 117, 140
Hearse, 113, 117, 143
Heath and
Warren,
Generals, in action of April 19, 1775, 65, 78, 79; comments of former on the battle, 79
Hedge,
Rev. Frederic H., ordination and dismissal of, 117-119
High School, 158, 165, 209
Highway to
Menotomy before 1636, 6
Hiram Lodge, 166
Hogreeves for
Menotomy, 1692, 1695, 9
Horse Railroad, 166
Hospitals in
Menotomy in 1775, 78, 83
House of
Jason Russell at
Menotomy April 19, 1775, 67-69, 71, 72, 75
Ice business and John Hill, 146; and railroads, 146, 147; first ice carried into Boston market, 242; houses at
Spy Pond, 146
Illumination in honor of the capture of
Richmond, 169
Indians, 6, 7, 30, 35, 50, 63, 128
Ingalls's (
Capt.) company of Infantry, 1861, 166, 167
Inhabitants, not proprietors, grants to them, 1689, 19
Innholders, 35, 36, 42, 69, 73, 74, 76, 76, 83, 121, 133, 136, 139, 150
Inoculation for cowpox, 139
Inscription on gravestone to
Jason Russell and others, 69; on monument of
the Rev. Samuel Cooke, 100.
Installation of
Rev. D. Damon, 117, 119; of successors, 120, 174
Interment of
Russell and others who fell on April 19, 1776, 70
Journalists, distinguished, natives, 146
Juvenile Library, 141, 142, 155, 163
Ladies' Soldiers' Aid Society, 168, 169
Lafayette in
West Cambridge, 139
Legacy of
Dr. Ebenezer Learned, 141; of
Dr. T. Wellington, 142, 156; of
John Butterfield, 107; of
Nathan Pratt, 164, 166
Letter of
John Adams at the age of 102, 149, 161; of
Rev. John Marrett, relating to events at
Menotomy on April 19, 1776, 74, 75; of
Rev. Mr. Cooke, to
the Rev. Isaiah Dunster, 39, 40
Lexington, Alarm April 19, 1776, 56; and West Cambridge Railroad, 143-45, 147, 148
Library, 108, 122, 127, 141, 142, 143, 166, 163, 165
Likeness of
the Rev. Mr. Cooke, 89
Locke School House, 165
Longevity in former times, 123, 148
Lumber yard, 130
Lynn End men in action at
Menotomy, April 19, 1775, 62, 71, 73
Market gardening and fruit farms, 146
Medford men killed at
Menotomy, April 19, 1775, 67, 72
Meeting house, 22-24, 29, 32, 34, 36, 41, 48, 62, 66, 67, 73-76, 79, 94, 101, 108-117, 120, 122, 126-128, 130,131, 138,139, 150
Menotomy, Bridge, 1642, 6; Church, see Cambridge Second Church;
Field, 8, 9, 10, 16; heavy firing of troops at, in Battle of 19 April, 1776, 56, 65, 66, 72, 78, 80, 81; incorporation as a district of
Cambridge and
Charlestown, 3, 37-39; injuries inflicted by British troops April 19, 1775, 56, 66-69, 74, 79, 82,128; men reported missing after battle of April 19, 77; minutemen 60,61, 56-60, 76, 99; Plain, action on, in Battle of April 19, 1775, 66-72; River, 2, 3, 5, 8-10, 16, 20, 83, 132; Row, 10
Methodist Society, 179
Middlesex Turnpike, 128, 136; Union Society, 110, 127
Militia, disposal of, after the Battle of April 19, 1775, 79
‘
Mills Weare,’ 20 Ministerial privileges, 21
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Ministry lot, 1, 19
Monument, commemorative of April 19, 1776, erected 1848, 70, 161, 162; to William and
Mary Cutter, 141
Monumental tablets at
Arlington, commemorative of April 19, 1776, 69,62, 68, 74, 76, 166
Mortality of the Precinct, 34, 43, 48, 123, 124
Mystic River, origin of name, 3; Street, altered, 155
Naming the several streets, 146
Narrative of the Provincial Congress concerning Battle of April 19, 1776, 64
Negroes, 36, 68, 160
New Almshouse, 1861, 162; Burying Ground, 143, 228; East District Schoolhouse, 162; lots next
Menotomy, 1638, 6; School District, 142
Night march of the
British troops through
Menotomy on April 18, 1776, 68, 69
Northwest Parish of Cambridge Singing Society, 111, 113,114
Notices publicly read in Church, 39, 46, 48, 93, 94
Obituary notice of
the Rev. Samuel Cooke, 103; of
Rev. Thaddeus Fiske, 240; of
Rev. David Damon, 226, 227
Odd Fellows, 166, 191
Ode to Science, 122
Officers chosen on account of the
War, in 1778, 92, 93; of the
Northwest Precinct in
Cambridge, 167-169
Old Adams House at
West Cambridge, 147-149
Oration by
William Nichols, Jr., on July, 4, 1808, 121, 122
Ordination of
Rev. Mr. Cooke, 28; of
Rev. Mr. Fiske, 107, 123, 124; of
Rev. F. H. Hedge, 117-119
Ornaments. &c., for town hall, 164
Orthodox Congregational Society, 177, 178
Paige's History of
Cambridge, 1
Parish, ringing of bell, 142; clerk for twenty years excused from further service, 117;
Hall, 143-146, 162, 174; Tax, 107
Park Avenue at
Arlington Heights, 164
Parsonage, 31, 74, 76, 83, 91
Passage cut for Cunard Steamer by John Hill, 146
Pastor's Diary, by
Rev. Mr. Cooke, 30-32
Percy's letters on the events of April 19, 1776, 79-82; reinforcement of British troops April 19, 1776, 62, 66, 66, 61, 64, 65, 80, 81, 82
Petition of
Samuel Cooke to sell his children's
real estate, 40, 41; to be set off from Second Parish, 107
Pewholders in new meeting-house, 1805,112
Pews, 23, 35, 101, 112, 126, 127
Pitch pipe for use of singers, 11
Plan of Cutters' lands, mill pond, &c., about 1726, 16
Poor House, 136, 137, 162
Poor Widows' Fund, 142, 166
Post Office, 130
Poverty, general, after the Revolution, 241
Powder House, 132
Preamble and recommendations at town meeting April 29, 1861, 166
Precinct expenses, 32, 33, 101, 103, 110
Preservers of fish first chosen, 122
Primary School Districts, 164
Prudential Committee reduced from five to three, 32; School Committee, 140
Public meeting, in 1861, on account of the war impending, 166, 156; Feb. 22, 1862, 167
Randolph's attempt to get possession of land near
Spy Pond, 9
Reading and Writing School, 22
Reminiscences of military affairs, &c., by
J. B. Russell, 122, 128-130, 133, 134, 136
Resignation of
Rev. Dr. Fiske, 117, 118; of
Rev. Mr. Hedge, 117, 118
Resolution not to invite
the Rev. George Whitefield to preach in the pulpit here and in other pulpits, 33
Resolutions of sympathy and greeting to
Major A. S. Ingalls, and others, July 22, 1862, 157; on
Washington J. Lane, April 4, 1864, 158, 169; relative to the alarming crisis in public affairs in 1809, 128
Revolutionary tea, 48, 49
Road from Watertown line to Cooke's mills (laid out 1638), 6, 8, 11, 12
Roll of
Capt. Benjamin Locke's company, 1776, 57, 68; of
Capt. William Adams's company, 1776, 83
Russell Park, 76, 169; School, 166, 163
Russell,
Thomas, hall of, 111
Salem Gazette, cited, 63, 62, 67, 68, 70, 71, 73, 77, 78, 103
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Sawmill, dam for, in 1703, suit, &c, 16
School Committee, 108, 109, 121, 138, 139, 140, 142, 171, 172, 173
Schoolhouses, in the Precinct, 17, 19, 21, 22, 24, 32, 33, 41-43, 46, 73, 108, 110; in
W. Cambridge, 116,122,130, 131, 137-139, 141-143, 152, 154, 156, 157, 158, 160; in
Arlington, 163, 166; burned, 160, 163; in Eastern District, 122,130,143,162; in Northwest District, 139, 142, 158, 160; in South District, 131, 143
Schools, 22, 24, 32, 41, 43, 48, 108,121, 131, 137, 139, 140,141-143, 148,154, 157; High School, 158, 159, 165; superintendent of, 169
Sealer of leather first chosen, 122
Seating the meeting-house, 94, 95
Second or Northwest Precinct in
Cambridge, boundaries, 2, 104; church organized, and first minister settled, 26, 28, 29, 30, 90, 126; early preachers, 23, 24, 25; fifty years since founded, 46; first child baptized, 22; first precinct meeting, 21; incorporated as town of
West Cambridge, 3, 114, 126; incorporated with part of
Charlestown as the
District of
Menotomy, 3, 38, 39; meeting-house built, 23; meeting-house dedicated, 23, 24; new meeting-house, 110; preaching in, 21, 23; second minister settled, 106, 106, 107; set off as a distinct parish, 2
Sermon, at
Rev. Mr. Cooke's ordination, by
Rev. E. Turell, 30; by
President Langdon at
Watertown, cited, 66
Sermons by
Mr. Cooke, 32-37, 39, 41-47, 49-51, 57, 84-89, 93, 94, 98-100; by
Rev. Mr. Fiske, 107, 108, 122-128
Sexton, 107, 108, 114, 143
Sheds at Old Cambridge for
Menotomy residents, 20; on parish land, 117, 141
Shooting of a woman in
Menotomy in 1770, 42
Sidewalks, 141
Singing, 49, 109, 111, 113, 114, 242; school, 114, 116
Sketch of
Major Ingalls, 157, 158; of
Rev. S. A. Smith, 169: of
Thomas Adams, 149, 160
Smith's ‘West Cambridge on the 19th of April, 1775,’ 66, 77, 78, 160
Snake hunt, 31
Soldiers in war of 1676, 18,19; enlisted in 1775, 67; war of 1861-65, 339-51
Sons of Temperance, 157
Squa Sachem's Reservation west of
Mystic Ponds, 7
State Records, 1, 2, 4, 38
St. John's Church, 179
St. Malachy's Church, 179
Stone house on training field, 145
Stores in
West Cambridge, 130
Stoves in meeting-house, 116, 117
Stranger found dead in woods, 33
Streets first lighted with gas by town, 155
Streets, survey of, 145
Suicides, 32, 124
Surrender of Cornwallis, 98, 100; of
Fort William Henry, 35
Tax, list for
Menotomy, A. D. 1781, 95-97; payers of, in
Menotomy, in 1688, 19
Thatcher's (
Capt.)
Cambridge militia company, April 19, 1775, 66, 67
Tombs in Burying Ground, 116
Tornado of Aug. 22, 1861, 152-54
Town, clock, 166,163; fire implements, 137, 139; house built, 154; meeting of
West Cambridge, 120, 121; officers of
Arlington, 170-173; of
West Cambridge, 120, 121; pound, 121, 131, 138, 141; record of births, &c, in first town book, 139; report, the first printed, 130-32; safe, 152
Train band, 41, 46, 84
Training field, 146
Transfer of land, the former southeast corner of
Arlington, 1729, 9
Union Grammar School District, 154; School District divided, 152, 154
Universal and Universalist Society, 117,119, 176, 177
Visit of
Jerome Bonaparte and his Bride to
Whittemore's Card Factory in 1804, 111
Washingtonian Society, 157
Wear Bridge, mill below on
Menotomy side, 18
Weir (or
Ware ) Bridge, 18, 39; for alewives in Menotomy River, 1636—since Alewife River or Brook, 6; in
Mystic River at
Menotomy, 6
Wells in public highways, 143
Welsh Mountains, the, 162
West Cambridge, band, 129, 136; boundaries, 3; congregational minister, right in Harvard College, 3; First Parish, 116-120, 123, 125, 126, 138, 143, 166, 169, 163, 174; Five
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Cents Savings Bank, 166; Gas Light Company, 155; Horse Railroad Co., 155; Light Infantry, 133, 136; Musical Society, 114, 115, 122; name changed to
Arlington, 4, 160; part annexed to
Belmont, 4; part annexed to
Winchester, 4; part of
Charlestown annexed, 4, 142; Sewing Circle, 141; Social Library, 122, 127, 236, 242; Sketch of, by Isaac Hill, 145-9, 160; Statement of expenses, 1816, 1816, 137,138; to help maintain Charles River Bridge, 3; town incorporated, 8, 114; view of in 1817, 138, 139
Whittemore, Samuel, wounding of, by the
British soldiery on April 19, 1776, 75-77
Will of
Rev. Samuel Cooke, 101
Winship, Jason, killed by British soldiers, 66, 73-76
Woburn Road; since Mystic Street, 8, 76
Wyman, District Schoolhouse, 152; Jabez, killing of by British soldiery, 66, 73-75
Yankee Doodle played by
Percy's British reinforcement, April 19, 1776, 61
