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The statue weighs 1800 pounds.The figure is about nine feet and so is the pedestal.The front of the statue's plinth reads:JOHN BRIDGE  •   1578–1665  •   left braintree, essex county, england. 1631  •   as a member of rev. mr. hooker's company  •   settled here 1632  •   and stayed when that company  •   removed to connecticut.  •   he had supervision of the first public school  •   established in cambridge 1635  •   was selectman 1635–1652  •   deacon of the church 1636–1658  •   representative to the great and general court 1637–1641  •   and was appointed by that body to lay out lands  •   in this town and beyond. 
The other three faces read:THIS PURITAN  •   helped to establish here  •   church school  •   and representative government  •   and thus to plant  •   a Christian commonwealth. 
Erected  •   and given to the city  •   september 20, 1882  •   by Samuel James Bridge  •   of the sixth generation  •   from John Bridge. 
"They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength."
braintree Samuel James Bridge essex