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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)
s read to him in 1848 it was fresh in his memory. The Cambridge men on the muster roll of this company of foot engaged in the army for the reduction of Canada, in the regiment of which Ebenezer Nichols was colonel, were Thomas Adams, captain; John Bathrick, private; Edward Fillebrown, private; Nathaniel Holden, private (Daniel Brown, master); Israel Hind, private; Joseph Robbins, private; Thomas Robbins, Jr., private (John Cutter, master); Joshua Swan, private (Ebenezer Swan, parent); Stephen Sterns, private; Aaron Swan, private (James Perry, master). The private Joseph Robbins is represented on the roll as having died on Aug. 21, 1768, after four months and some days service, and the centenarian was undoubtedly mistaken in giving the name as Thomas, though there were two Thomas Robbins's in his father's company, one of them being a sergeant of Lexington. Other names of this company are noticed in the Genealogies. In this year Mr. Cooke preached the sermon at the ordination o