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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)
no acorns. Owing to this scarcity of corn two remarkable resolutions were adopted by the Court, November 5, 1633:—1. That no man shall give his swine any corn, but such as, being viewed by two or three neighbours, shall be judged unfit for man's meat. 2. Alfo, that every plantation shall agree how many swine every person may keep, winter and fummer, about the plantation. The common food of the settlers was beans, corn, squashes, and smoked fish; potatoes not being generally introduced till 1718. A quart of milk sold for a penny, four eggs for a penny, butter was sixpence a pound, and cheese fivepence, although money was worth, it has been stated, five times as much as now. Colby's Notes. As early as October, 1630, Governor Winthrop, perceiving the inconveniences which had arisen from the use of liquors at table by drinking one to another, restrained it at his own table and persuaded others to do the same. A loose paper was found in his Mss. containing reasons for a law agai
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., January 15, 1738. (search)
iety adopted. April 6, 1846, Mr. Ripley presented to the Independent Congregational Society a portrait in oil of the Rev. William Welsteed, who was invited to become Mr. Angier's successor in 1722, but declined the call. He was born in 1695, the son of William Welsteed, a merchant of Boston, who brought the news to Boston of the earthquake at Port Royal, Jamaica, on which occasion he narrowly escaped death. He was graduated from Harvard College with the class of 1717; was Librarian from 1718 to 1720, when he was appointed a tutor, and held the position till 1728, when he was called to the pulpit of the old North Church in Boston. He and Nicholas Sever, a fellow tutor, were conspicuous for claiming seats in the board of overseers of the College, in 1721-3, and in the troubles which grew out of an attempt to change the board, and effect the removal of certain liberal members of the Corporation. He died in 1753. The first services of the Protestant Episcopal Church, connected w