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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)
man was chosen instead. Bowman's duties are described on his election the following year, when he was given compensation for ringing the bell, and taking charge of the meeting-house. Bowman was also sexton in 1793. 1792 It was voted to divide the schools into three wards, and a committee of nine was chosen to take the charge of said schools and regulate the same. Among the few papers left by my father, is a report, taken down at the time by him, as secretary, of the meeting held Feb. 24, 1792, at Thomas Green's School House, in regard to support of schools, the purchasing a small library, and whether the meetings shall be held in turn in each of the wings: Francis Locke was moderator. The speakers were Jonathan and Francis Locke, A. Cutter, Joseph Shaw, Thomas Knox, S. Peirce, J. Estabrooks and William Locke, all of whom lived in the upper part of the town. The speeches have now no interest. The report makes fifteen pages of a small blank book. —Letter of J. B. Russell. Th