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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)
Philip Bemis, Dea. Joseph Adams, Aaron Swan, Capt. Benjamin Locke. For the third ward:—Edward Fillebrown, Samuel Frost, Joshua Kendall, Jeduthun Wellington, Timothy Swan. Thomas Russell was chosen treasurer on account of the war, for the ensuing year. It was voted that the assessors above-named, be the assessors for to assess the money that Captain Locke hired to pay the men that went to Ticonderoga. At a meeting of the freeholders and inhabitants of Cambridge Northwest Precinct, June 4, 1778, it was voted, Nehemiah Cutter being chosen moderator, that Samuel Swan be collector for the war tax, in the room of John Hill, who refused to serve. It was voted also to give the collectors two shillings upon the pound for what they shall collect. Signed by Walter Russell, Precinct Clerk. These entries on a particular page of the Precinct Book probably relate to the arrangement to mess the inhabitants of the parish in accordance with the votes above. The records give no further in