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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., chapter 4 (search)
such persons, what benefit they expect from being plunged in rivers, or an ocean of water? * * * * Water used in baptism is only typical, or a sign or token. * * * * (Mar. 1772.) At this period the following notice was publicly read in church: Zechariah Hill with his wife desires to return thanks to God for his goodness to them in granting her a safe delivery in childbirth, and they also desire prayers for perfecting mercy—The child's name is to be called Ruth. One sermon (No. 1326—May 31, 1772) refers to earthquakes in divers places, and frequently in this land, as foreboding, we may conclude, our present calamities [the British military occupation of Boston]; which we have reason to fear are but the beginning of our sorrows, the loss of our civil and religious liberties, and we left to the will of arbitrary men, to those whose tender mercies are cruelty. Mr. J. B. Russell in an article published in the Boston Transcript enumerates the following earthquakes in Massachusetts
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 9 (search)
yman, 413. 2. Thomas (Goodwin), of Charlestown, m. Abigail Cutter, 24 Dec. 1776—fee 12s. 8d. She was widow of Aaron Cutter. See cut-Ter (par. 46); Wyman, 419. 3. John, prob. s. of Samuel (1), m. Mary Russell, 26 July, 1771. He o. c. 31 May, 1772, and had Mary, b. 17, bap. 31 May, 1772. 4. Sarah and Thomas Winship, both of Camb., m. 4 Sept. 1753. Mary, m. Paul Speed (British), 15 Dec. 1778—fee $6. Goldsmith, Lydia Louisa, and John D. Glazier, m. 8 Oct. 1835. Goodwin. See Godd31 May, 1772. 4. Sarah and Thomas Winship, both of Camb., m. 4 Sept. 1753. Mary, m. Paul Speed (British), 15 Dec. 1778—fee $6. Goldsmith, Lydia Louisa, and John D. Glazier, m. 8 Oct. 1835. Goodwin. See Goddin. Gookin, Samuel, of Camb., and Mary Mullet, of Charlestown, m. 22 Dec. 1761. See Paige, 566; Wyman, 422. Goss, Mehitable—from the ch. in Billerica—adm. to Pct. ch. 7 Aug. 1796. Gould, Sarah, of Medford, and Thomas Robbins of Camb., m. 29 Oct. 1761. Gould, a baker—young man—frozen near Phile. Russell's, 12 Feb. 1838. Francis Gould, one of the officers in the military service before Richmond, to whom the town sent resolutions of greeting on July 22, 1862, alluded to on p.