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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 9 (search)
; resigned his charge 23 Apr. 1828, after a forty years ministry. He lived to see five ministers successively ordained over this society, three of whom died before him; was at the time of his death the oldest clergyman in Massachusetts, and d. in Charlestown, 14 Nov. 1855, a. 93. Received the degree of D. D. in 1821, from Columbia College. His wife d. 9 Mar. 1855, a. 88. The Rev. Thaddeus Fiske, in an account of himself and ancestry appended to a Sermon delivered at West Cambridge, April 13, 1828, at the close of his ministry, and published at Boston, by Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1843, states, I was born on the 22d of June, 1762. At the age of seventeen, I began to prepare for College under the tuition of Rev. Mr. Samuel Woodward, who was an able instructor and linguist, the minister of Weston, my native town. I was offered by him for examination, and was admitted a student of Harvard University in July, 1781, and graduated in 1785. After he had taken his degree, h