Ancient Middlesex with brief biographical sketches of the men who have served the country officially since its settlement . , 1792. Son of Dr. Amariah Pres-ton of Bedford, who served three years in the War of the Revo-kition, afterwards praetieing medicine with great success, anddied in Lexington, aged 9(i. having been in active practice untilahuost four score years and ten. Marshall Preston was at BrownLuiversity for a time, studied law with his uncle, Warren Preston(Brown University, 1801), in Maine, and was admitted to the barin Augusta. Lawyer at Billerica from aloout 183()-181!); TownCler
Ancient Middlesex with brief biographical sketches of the men who have served the country officially since its settlement . , 1792. Son of Dr. Amariah Pres-ton of Bedford, who served three years in the War of the Revo-kition, afterwards praetieing medicine with great success, anddied in Lexington, aged 9(i. having been in active practice untilahuost four score years and ten. Marshall Preston was at BrownLuiversity for a time, studied law with his uncle, Warren Preston(Brown University, 1801), in Maine, and was admitted to the barin Augusta. Lawyer at Billerica from aloout 183()-181!); TownClerk at Billerica, 1821-1818; Postmaster at Billerica, 182(5-1819; Selectman, Billerica, 1821-1818; House of Representa-tives from Billerica, 1829-1830. A member of the First ParishChurch (Unitarian) at Billerica; also the Old First ParishChurch (Linitarian) at Lexington, when he lived there, 1819-1871; also a member of the Masonic FVaternity. He movedfrom Billerica to Lexington in 1819, where he died November 2,1871, aged eighty-two years. John James Sawyer, of Somerville, March 5, J 863, to September6, 1882 (J9 years)*. Born in Cambridge July 29, 1811. Descended from ElihuSawyer, who was a Lieutenant in the Revolution, and was withWashington at Valley F^orge. John James became infatuatedwith the ocean in early life, and, in company with the late veteranClerk of Courts of Suffolk Joseph A. Willard, ran away to served- in the United States Navy throughout the Mexican
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