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., chapter 5, page 138

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Amos Frost, for work clearing out the river	2 25
Wyman & Day, for repairing town plough and school-house door lock.	1 60
Alfred Locke, for refreshments to Selectmen, Committees, and Schoolmasters	4 00
Gershom Swan, for use of land, for pound	3 00
Benjamin Harrington, for ringing the bell for town meetings	2 00
William Cutter, 2d, for transporting baggage to South Boston	2 00
Selectmen and Town Clerk, for making out this statement	3 00
Hilliard & Metcalf for printing this statement	6 00
Treasurer's services	10 00
Clerk's do.	10 00
	——
Contingencies		650 72
Poor		785 97
Schools		675 96
Highways		597 35
		———
		$2710 00
Received for the privilege of the fishery for 1816		51 00

The following sums were voted for the expenses of the town for 1815.

Contingent expenses	$200 00
Repairing the highways	600 00
Treasurer's services	10 00
Clerk's do	10 00
	——	3020 00

Submitted by

Thomas Russell, Selectmen.

James Perry, Selectmen.

Walter Russell, Selectmen.

Attest, Thomas Russell, Town Clerk. West Cambridge, May, 1816.

Centre of West Cambridge in 1817.

The accompanying view of West Cambridge, in 1817, shows the First Parish meeting-house of that date. The mansion of Hon. William Whittemore in the foreground, now occupied by Nathan Robbins, Esq.

Boston: David Clapp and son. 564 Washington Street, 1880.

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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.

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