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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)
square five miles granted to Dedham; a neck of land on the north side of the river was given to Dedham to make up her five square miles accounted by quantity and not by situation. On the northeast six myles of land square were granted to Concord, and so located in the survey as to overlap the land already granted to Watertown; and thus the curtailment of the original territory of Watertown began, which has been continued until it is now one of the smallest towns in the Commonwealth. In November, 1637, a grant of fifteen hundred acres of meadow was made to Watertown if it be there convenient, at the new plantation [Sudbury], upon the river Concord is upon, and again in May, 1651, the Court ordered that Watertown shall have two thousand acres of land laid out near Assabet River ... provided it be not prejudicial to any former grants. But neither of these grants was located at the time, and, though the town several times appointed committees to secure from the General Court the locatio