Accounts, 1784-1819.

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Accounts, 1784-1819.

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Accounts of the Proprietors of the Palls in the First Parish, Cambridge, Mass., 1784-1815. Includes list of proprietors, memoranda of meetings, and accounts of cash paid for palls and/or the hearse at funerals. These records were kept mainly by William Winthrop, treasurer. This volume also contains accounts of the Proprietors of the Common Land (1784-1819), First Parish, which consist of rents for gallows land and land near Fresh Pond and the causeway, rented mainly to Gideon and Walter Frost, Jonathan Hearsey, and Noah Wyeth. In addition, there is a list of subscribers to the purchase of a new clock by Simon Willard for the meeting house (1794). The inside cover of the volume is inscribed by Henry H. Edes.

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Edes, Henry Herbert, 1849-1922

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Cambridge (Mass.). Proprietors of the Palls.

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Frost, Gideon, 1724-1803.

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Frost, Walter, 1766-

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Wyeth, Noah, 1742-1811.

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Willard, Simon, 1753-1848

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Simon Willard was a clock maker working in Grafton and Roxbury, Mass. From the description of Tall case brass dial clock, ca. 1785. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 668258840 From the description of Brass dial wall clock, ca. 1785. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 668258819 From the description of Brass dial wall clock, 1780-1790. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 668258829 From the description of Brass dial shelf clock, 1790-1800....

Hearsey, Jonathan, d.1840.

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First Parish (Cambridge, Mass.)

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A church was formed in Cambridge in 1633, but in 1636 the minister and many members removed to Hartford, Conn. A new church was gathered that year. In 1829 the church separated into Unitarian and Trinitarian bodies, the Unitarians retaining the name of First Parish in Cambridge. From the description of Records, 1658- (Harvard University, Divinity School Library). WorldCat record id: 269368754 The first Meeting House was built in 1632 and Thomas Hooker became the first minist...

Winthrop, William, 1753-1826.

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Cambridge (Mass.). Proprietors of the Common Lands.

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