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built, or the manner in which it should be finished; but with union and harmony in every measure, and joining heart and hand, your highest expectations were gratified, in the building of an house for the service and honor of God, to whom you owe all that you have.
This sacred temple, I trust, will long remain, a monument of your piety and liberality.
Here may you and your children, as your fathers were, be “built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone.”
May many sons and daughters here be born unto glory; and when you shall be gathered to the dust of your fathers, may your children rise up and call you blessed.
In 1809 the town, by a committee of seven persons, adopted resolutions relative to the alarming crisis of our public affairs.
This related to the Embargo and other public matters of the period.
The same year the town chose a committee to consult with the directors of the
Middlesex Turnpike to effect a reconciliation between the directors and landholders, where the said turnpike may be laid for the public convenience and least damage to private property.
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1810
Feb. 7, 1810, the town's representative was instructed to use all his endeavors, that the
Middlesex Turnpike be located at the Foot of the
Rocks, so called, in
West Cambridge, and at no other place.
A committee was chosen in addition to the representative for the same purpose.
Some Reminiscences, by J. B. Russell, Washington, D. C., giving a sketch of the early history of military affairs, &c., in West Cambridge,2 state that's ‘The wanton atrocities of the British Regulars, on their retreat from Concord, April 19, 1775, still rankled in the breasts of the old people’ at this period.
This, with the aggressions of the British navy, and the barbarities of the Indians on our Northwest frontier, who were presumed to be under their influence, excited such
