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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)
by E. from London, on the left bank of the river Lea, to which place belongs Nasing, the birthplace or home of the Rev. John Eliot, and other early settlers of New England. It is a large, irregular town, situated near the Lea, which is here separated into divers streams, and skirted by low meadows, which have been long celebrated for the succulent and nourishing qualities of the grass. The Convent of Waltham was originally founded about A. D. 1020, by Tovi, (Stallere or Standard-bearer to Canute the Dane, King of England), who built a hunting-seat in the forest, The original great forest which extended, in a desultory manner, over the largest part of the County of Essex, and of which what now remains of Epping or Waltham Forest is but a remnant. Epping Forest lies to the north and north-east of London, comprises a series of woodlands, beginning at Leytonstone, seven miles from London, and ending at Epping, eight miles further on; a tract on an average three or four miles wide.
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., Index. (search)
ver, 25; chosen often as Representative, 25; complains to the Court against John Endicott for mutilating the ensign, 25; delegate to the First General Court, 30. Bunker Hill, Company that went to, 101. Burying-ground, the old, 45. Burying-ground below Beaver Brook, 55. Cady, Nicolas, old deed from, 79. Calf, the lost, 18. Calhoun, John C., visits cotton factory, 132. Cambridge, 2, 9, 20, 38, 49, 60, 100, 108; at first called New Towne, 17. Cant not fashionable, 29. Canute, the Dane, 66. Cape Cod, landing of Pilgrims on, 9; John Oldham wrecked on, 38. Cargoes of food bought for general stock, 19. Carlyle, Thomas, on fundamental idea of Puritanism, 23; Seventeenth-century Puritans, 29. Catholic Church, 121; resident pastors of, 121. Cattle, importation and rapid increase of, 31: driven to Connecticut, 39; lost there by winter's severity, 39; sudden fall in price of, 57. Census, curiosities of the, 139. Charles River (the), 2, 14-16; named b