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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)
ch slow progress as that in two years they had not three houses built there, and he whom One Mr. Norcross, an university scholar. they had called to be their minister left them for their delays. Among the petitioners for the plantation at Nashaway was Stephen Day, who first introduced printing in New England, having established a printing office at Cambridge, in March, 1638, where the first thing which was printed was the Freemen's oath; the next an almanac made for New England, by Mr. William Peirce, mariner, and the next the Psalms newly turned into metre. On July 1, 1644, the Church and Colony met with a great loss in the death of Rev. George Phillips, one of their best and most venerable men. Much has been written in his praise. His Church showed their respect for his memory by providing for the education of his eldest son Samuel. The records show that he had liberal grants of land, among which was one of forty acres of the Beaver Brook plowlands, lying east of the Driftw