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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)
Mr. Cooke alludes to the origin of this religious society thus: It is, as I am informed, near fifty years since this society was founded. Those who first thus united in this place to spend a part of the evening of the Lord's day in the worship of their arisen Redeemer, are probably all met in the grave, to which each-one of you with hasty steps are moving. The greater part of this discourse (No. 1351) was repeated as the funeral sermon of his cherished daughter, Rebecca Cooke, on Feb. 8, 1778, she having died Feb. 2, 1778, aged nineteen years. In 1772 it was voted that the money received for sale of the old school-house, be used to help pay for fencing the burying-place. 1773 Mr. Cooke continues his exposition of Mark, and the same of Luke. In one of these numerous sermons he takes issue against the idle ceremonies of the Church of Rome and other sectaries, as subversive of true religion, by being substituted in the place of that holiness in heart and life which G