Congregational Parish (Unitarian) of Arlington, MA.

The church was gathered on September 9, 1739 as the Second Church in Cambridge . Cambridge 's Second or North-West Precinct (often called Menotomy Precinct ) had been set off in 1732; organization of the Second Parish in Cambridge came at a somewhat later date. In 1829, the congregation called its first Unitarian minister, Frederic Henry Hedge . In 1867, the town's name was changed from West Cambridge to Arlington, and the church was then called the First Congregational Church and Parish (Unitarian) of Arlington . In 1965, the First Congregational Parish (Unitarian) and the First Universalist Society of Arlington merged to form the present day First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington (from An Inventory of the Records of the Particular (Congregational) Churches of Massachusetts, by Harold Field Worthley, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1970, and from Arlington's First Parish, by Charles Grady, 2000).