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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)
Cutter; then to Abel G. Peck, who divided it, and removed it, one half at a time, to the spot where it now rests. The frame of the old church was of oak, hence very strong and heavy. William Whittemore gave about $440 for the body of the house, which he moved entire—T. J. Whittemore. It is now the dwelling-house of Mr. Charles O. Gage, on Pleasant Street, near Belmont line. The second church edifice was torn down in 1840. The succeeding structure, built on the same site, was burnt Jan. 1, 1866, and the present house is its successor. In this year thirty dollars were drawn for the purpose of encouraging singing. The following memorandum was made on the Precinct Records: July 1804, the Meeting House belonging to the Rev. Thaddeus Fiske's Society was raised and no man hurt thereby. The record book of the Northwest Parish of Cambridge Singing Society contains the Constitution of the Society, with this preamble: As music constitutes one very essential part of public devoti