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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)
by Thaddeus Fiske, Pastor. Began to preach to the Second Church and Society in Cambridge on the first Sabbath in April, 1787—and continued to preach and supply the Parish to July 16th of the same year; on which day, being Monday, he received his call to settle with them in the Gospel ministry, at the following meeting, viz. The proceedings of a meeting held by the inhabitants of the N. W. Precinct in Cambridge and those of Charlestown legally joined to said precinct—on the 16th day of July, 1787—Lieut. Jeduthun Wellington was chosen Moderator of said meeting. 1. Voted to come to the choice of a Minister. 2. Voted that the church and congregation vote together in the choice of a minister. 3. Voted, unanimously by the church and congregation that Mr. Thaddeus Fiske be their minister. 4. Voted to give Mr. Fiske one hundred pounds salary. 5. Voted to give Mr. Fiske one hundred and fifty pounds as Settlement. 6. Voted that Messrs. Capt. William Adams, Samuel Whi<
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)
ington, and boarded in the family of the Rev. Jonas Clark. He returned to the University in Cambridge, and studied divinity under Rev. Prof. Wigglesworth, and was licensed to preach 8 Aug. 1786, by the Association of Ministers in and about Cambridge. He preached his first sermon in his native town, and after supplying several vacant parishes, was invited in March, 1787, to preach to the Second Congregational Church and Society in Cambridge, then called Menotomy, now West Cambridge. On 16 July, 1787, he received a call to settle as their minister. I hesitated, he says, for some time, whether to decline or accept their invitation. The parish was very small and poor, and considerably involved in debt, having been destitute of a settled minister about six years, and were in a broken state, very much reduced in numbers and property. Col. Thomas Russell remembered that after the Revolution, when it took a generation to recuperate from the general poverty of the time, so scarce were p