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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)
the town's school-money had before been previously mentioned, and committees appointed to expend it. It was voted this year to take down the belfry, and cover the bell. The following notice was this year publicly read in church: Widow Elizabeth Swan with her Children desireth prayers that God would sanctify to them his holy hand, in taking away her daughter and their sister Richardson, by death. [Esther (Swan) Richardson—wife of Zebadiah Richardson, of Woburn. She died at Woburn, April 19, 1774.—Wob. Records. ] 1775 This was the momentous year of the opening of the American Revolution, and it is remarkable that a portion of the first armed resistance to British aggression culminated in battle near the meeting-house in this Precinct, where its minister had uttered so many patriotic sentiments in opposition to the oppression of the royal government. The times must have been those of peculiar anxiety, for it is a known fact that the death-rate in the towns about Boston fo
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)
Pct. ch. at org. 9 Sept. 1739. Elizabeth, w. of John, adm. do. at org. 9 Sept. 1739. John the father d. suddenly 31 Mar. 1752, a. 70. A child from Boston, d. at John Swan's, 27 Oct. 1747, a. 16 mos. Wid. Elizabeth, of this ch., was buried here 28 Oct. 1780, a. 85. John Maccorly, on Wid. Elizabeth Swan's account, bap. 25 Dec. 1757, aet. 8. Elizabeth, dau. of John, and Esther, dau. of John, were adm. Pct. ch. 8 Aug. 1742. Esther m. Zebadiah Richardson, of Woburn, 19 Apr. 1759 [died 19 Apr. 1774—see History of Pre-Cinct, under 1774]. Susanna, dau. of John, was adm. Pct. ch. 23 Sept. 1750. Susanna m. Samuel Watts, of Woburn, 4 Apr. 1757. See Wyman's Chas., 917. 3. Ebenezer, s. of Ebenezer (1), d. Ah! plurise five days, 23 Apr. 1752, a. 47. His w. Bathsheba d. 31 Aug. 1793, a. 84. A dau. Bathsheba d. 27 Aug. 1805, unm. a. 68; a dau. d. 22 July, 1740, a. 18 mos.; had a son Joshua, b. 28 June, bap. 10 July, 1743; Mary, b. 3, bap. 7 Apr. 1745, d. 1 Aug. 1747, a. 3 yrs.; a dau
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 16., Distinguished guests and residents of Medford. (search)
igression from our subject, the following concerning Dill, whom Miss Larcom introduced in her story, may not be amiss. One authority says the child was bought April 19, 1766, and died about the middle of the nineteenth century, a nonagenarian. The item to which I especially refer was made public by the Boston Herald, November 8, 1908, and was a receipt, given in connection with a sale of slaves, found in a garret of a house in North Adams, and reads as follows:— Danvers, Mass., April 19, 1774. Received of Mr. Jeremiah Page fifty eight pounds thirteen Shillings And fore pence lawful money And a negro woman called dinah, which in full for A negro girl Call Cato And A negro Child Called deliverance or dill which I now sell and deliver to ye said Jeremiah Page. Frank Tapley. John Bancroft. General John Stark. Boston, Mass., April 18, 1774. The Page homestead, in good condition, is today one of the historic places pointed out to the visitor to Danvers. Our interest in the