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Charles A. Nelson , A. M., Waltham, past, present and its industries, with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1739., March 19, 1627-8. (search)
stream. A little south of Beaver Meadow is Lily Pond, a small sheet of water having its outlet through the meadow into Chester Brook. The name Chester was probably given very soon after Governor Winthrop's visit, as Mr. Leonard Chester arrived in 1633 and left Watertown in 1636. Some modern improvers, says Bond, have given the name Clematis Doubtless with the same desire for improvement, and with about as much authority as attended the change of the name of the brook, this word is mispronounkept his strength and colour, yet had eaten nothing. He recovered, lived orderly, but was now and then a little distempered. The harvest in 1632 was scanty on account of the cold and wet weather which prevailed during the summer; and again, in 1633, there was great scarcity of corn, by reason of the spoil our hogs had made at harvest, and the great quantity they had eaten in the winter, there being no acorns. Owing to this scarcity of corn two remarkable resolutions were adopted by the Cour