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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. 2 0 Browse Search
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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., January 15, 1738. (search)
n on the Plain below. The frost comes later in the fall and leaves the ground earlier in the spring. For these reasons, doubtless, it was for a long time the best settled part of the town. In 1800 there were but thirty-six dwelling houses on Main Street, twenty on the north side and sixteen on the south; fifty years earlier not much above one-third that number. Among these were a tavern on the south-east corner of Main and Gore Streets, kept by Thomas Wellington, Jr., followed by William Goodhue, and afterwards by Colonel Jonathan Brewer, a Revolutionary officer, who commanded a regiment in the old French war, and at the battle of Bunker Hill, where he was wounded. His wounds were dressed by Dr. Marshall Spring Dr. Spring during his long life sustained such a high professional repute as very few private practitioners have attained to. He was eminent as a wit, and it is said that he was the only man of that time who could successfully meet Chief Justice Parsons in the keen e