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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)
be felt of additional accommodation for public worship, resulting from the growth of the town, especially of the Factory population. The Manufacturing Company and some of their employes, with other of the townspeople, having decided to build another church, a paper was circulated for the signatures of those favoring the project, the agreement being to settle a minister according to the wishes of the majority of the signers. The Congregationalists prevailed, and Rev. Sewall Harding, from Medway, who had been preaching to them in the school-house on Elm Street, was ordained January 17, 1821, the same day the new house of worship was dedicated on Church Street, on the spot now occupied by the Catholic burial ground. The views of Rev. Mr. Harding not according with those of a majority of the parish, he was dismissed by a vote of the society, April 4, 1825-62 affirmative, 15 negative. The church-members, with the exception of one or two only, adhered to their pastor and left in a b