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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)
r note states, For want of a Penalty set, this order of no force. The same date an order was passed relative to the measuring out the remote meddows (probably in Weston). July 17, 1638, there was a grant of Waltham lands in the order yt all those Freemen yt have no Lotts at ye Towneship shall have 12 Acre Lotts beyond Bever Plain and The Farms, October 14, 1638, the territory, now Weston, was distributed. The Westward growth of the town, particularly the taking up of the farm lands (in Weston), removed the farmers so far from the meeting-house that it was inconvenient for them to attend service there, and a considerable number of them united with the Ctheir threat to burn Watertown as well as the other settlements, the Indians penetrated the western part of our town and burnt a barn. C. H. Fiske's Oration at Weston, July 4. 1876. In December, 1675, a warrant was issued to the militia of Watertown for impressing twenty soldiers, with provisions, arms, ammunition, and good clo
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)
blished 30 years before, under the delusive expectation of furnishing the people a better currency than gold and silver, which had become very scarce. He died in Weston in 1784 at the age of 80, quite poor; the few hundred pounds realized in Continental money from the sale of his last real estate, turned to dust and ashes in his0th. In October of the same year Washington visited the Eastern States, leaving New York on Thursday the 15th. He lodged and breakfasted at Captain Flagg's in Weston. Captain Fuller's company of Horse met him and escorted him through Waltham and Watertown to Cambridge. He, too, was saluted by the Watertown Artillery as he paathan Weeks and Sarah Weeks from First Church in Marlboroa, Henry Moore and Mary Moore from First Church of Christ in Bolton, and Cyrus Jones from First Church in Weston. Dr. Lowell then pronounced these persons members of the Second Congregational Church in Waltham, gathered according to gospel order. Recorded by me, Bernard Wh
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)
-arms, accident from careless use of, 32. First Baptist Church constituted, 121; list of pastors, 121. First Church of Waltham passes out of existence, 115; attempted union with Second Rel. Soc. (1826), 116. Fish used for manure, 21 n. 1; driven out of river by impurities from gas works, etc., 22; singular fatality to in Sherman's Pond, 28. Fishing stations of the Adventurers failure, 9. Fiske: Capt. Abijah, Abraham, Theodore, 89; William, 88, 139. Fiske, C. H., oration at Weston, 62 n. 3, 4. Fiske, Miss, Caroline, 88; will of, 139, 140. Fiske, Miss E. J., 140. Fiske, Sarah, widow, 39. Fiske estate rejected by the town, 140. Fiske House, the old, 88, 139. Fiske's Pond, 27 n. 1. Flagg, Rev. S. B., pastor of First Parish, 117. Flagg: Allen, John, Michael, 97; William, killed, 60; Thomas, ancestor of all of the name, 60 n. 3. Flash-board on the Bemis dam, right to, sold to Boston Manufacturing Co., 127. Fleet, number of vessels in Winthrop's, 13.