”ARLINGTON.

The parish was incorporated as a town by the name of West Cambridge, February 27,1807: the act had force June 1, 1807. The old religious society (organized 1732) thus became the first parish in West Cambridge. A tower-clock was procured for their meeting-house in 1808. The first stove and funnel in the house was authorized in 1820. The ministers of this church and society have been ten in number, as follows: Samuel Cooke, 1739-1783; Thaddeus Fiske, 1788-1828; Frederick H. Hedge, 1829 -1835; David Damon, 1835 -1843; William Ware, 1845 -1846; James F. Brown, 1848-1853; Samuel A. Smith, 18541865; Charles C. Salter, 1866 – 1869; George W. Cutter, 1870-1876; “William J. Parrot, 1878.”

Reference Data:

History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, by Samuel Adams Drake, 1879, pages 211-12