hide Sorting

You can sort these results in two ways:

By entity
Chronological order for dates, alphabetical order for places and people.
By position (current method)
As the entities appear in the document.

You are currently sorting in ascending order. Sort in descending order.

hide Most Frequent Entities

The entities that appear most frequently in this document are shown below.

Entity Max. Freq Min. Freq
Watertown (Massachusetts, United States) 392 0 Browse Search
Waltham (Massachusetts, United States) 328 0 Browse Search
Charles (Massachusetts, United States) 94 0 Browse Search
New England (United States) 76 0 Browse Search
John Winthrop 56 2 Browse Search
Salem (Massachusetts, United States) 52 0 Browse Search
George Phillips 46 10 Browse Search
Zechariah Weston 46 0 Browse Search
John Oldham 43 1 Browse Search
Pequot Indians 42 0 Browse Search
View all entities in this document...

Browsing named entities in a specific section of 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.. Search the whole document.

Found 1,160 total hits in 392 results.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
Middlesex County (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
68 n. 2. Fairs at Waltham Abbey, 68. Fales, Rev. T. F., rector, 119. Fall of fresh waters, 21, 70. Falls: of Charles River, 21, 70; a disadvantage attending most of the great rivers of New England, 21 n. 4. Familists, the, 32. Farmers' Club, 140. Farm lands or Farms, 51. Farmers' Precinct builds a meeting-house, 54; incorporated as Weston, 55. Farnsworth, Oel, 141. Fasting and prayer, days set apart for, 11, 22. Feake, Robert, 26, 30. Federal Constitution, Middlesex Co. delegates vote against, 108. Fever, many sick with, 15. Field, F., inventor of crayons, 141. Fire destroys wigwams and houses, 17. Fire-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 Pon
Mount Feake (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
el built at, 34. Mixer, Joseph, chosen deacon, 56; Isaac, Sarah, 87. Modern improvers, 27. Mohegans aid English in the Pequot War, 43. Monoco, John, his boast, 62; hung with eight others, 62. Moore, Maj., Uriah, paper-maker, 86, 91. Moody, Paul, 112; engaged as machinist, 130; moved to Lowell, 133. Mortality, bill of, 108. Morton, Nathaniel, 37. Morton, Thomas, sent to England, 38. Mouse and snake, combat between, 32. Mount Auburn, 25, 44. Mount Enoch, 81. Mount Feake named by Gov. Winthrop, 26; named from Robert Feake, the Governor's son-in-law, 26; marked upon plan made in 1640, 28; name still retained, 28; included in Oldham Farm, 38; water-works near, 141. Mt. Feake cemetery, 28. Muddy River, 34. Mule-spinning introduced, 133. Munnings, George, loses an eye. 42. Naemkecke, 10 n. 1. Nahant 11 n. 3. Nantasket, 13, 31, 37, 38. Nantasket Point, colonists put ashore on, 13. Nantucket, 46. Narragansett Bay, 43. Narragansett for
Richmond (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
at Roxbury, has the Western fever, 36; settles at Springfield, 40. Quinobequin not the original Indian name of Charles River, 13 n. 4. Quonehtacut, River, 35. Qunnubbagge, 13 n. 4. Rebellion, Waltham's record in, 110 Regiments at Waltham and Watertown, 100. Regulator for water-wheel, 131. Representative body established, 30. Residences, earliest, at Trapolo, 78; on Main St., in 1798, 86-7. Revolution, Waltham in the, 100-108. Revolutionary documents, 106-7. Richmond, Va., 126. Richard I., 67. Ripley, Rev., Ezra, 110. Ripley, Rev., Samuel, 84; ordained over First church, 111; resigns, 115, 116; associate pastor Independent Cong. Society, 116; presents Independent Cong. Society a portrait, 118; administers the Ann Mills fund, 117-118; author of Description of Waltham, 128 n. 1. River Street laid out, 132. Robbins, R. E., purchased watch factory, 136. Roberts's paper mill, 93. Rocksbury, first settlement at, 15, 17, 18. Rogers, John, t
Canadian (Oklahoma, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
New Town(e), resolve to build at, 17, 19, 20, 32, 36; palisade at, 28; people of very rich, 31; stratened for land, 34; desire to remove, 34; additional lands granted to, 35; congregation move to Connecticut, 39, 40, 100. Nichols, Henry, founder of the Familists, 32 n. 1. Nixon: Col., 89; Capt. Joseph, 89, 91. Noah, Winthrop's colonists like the family of, 15 n. 1. Noddles Island, 12 n. 2. Northfield burned by Indians, 61. Nyantics aid the English, 43. Old French War on Canadian frontier, soldiers furnished for, 99. Oldham, John, member of the Committee from Watertown on raising of public moneys, 30; visits the Connecticut, 35, 36; at Plymouth, 36, 37; perverseness of, 37; banished from Plymouth, 37, 38; returns to Nantasket, 38; brought to penitence, 38; admitted freeman at Watertown, 38; granted farm of 500 acres in Waltham, 38; killed by the Pequot Indians, 40: his death avenged, 41. Oldham Farm, 38, 93. One-eyed John, 62. Orchards filled with trees, 5
Nahant (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
Morton, Nathaniel, 37. Morton, Thomas, sent to England, 38. Mouse and snake, combat between, 32. Mount Auburn, 25, 44. Mount Enoch, 81. Mount Feake named by Gov. Winthrop, 26; named from Robert Feake, the Governor's son-in-law, 26; marked upon plan made in 1640, 28; name still retained, 28; included in Oldham Farm, 38; water-works near, 141. Mt. Feake cemetery, 28. Muddy River, 34. Mule-spinning introduced, 133. Munnings, George, loses an eye. 42. Naemkecke, 10 n. 1. Nahant 11 n. 3. Nantasket, 13, 31, 37, 38. Nantasket Point, colonists put ashore on, 13. Nantucket, 46. Narragansett Bay, 43. Narragansett fort, capture of, 61. Narragansetts, fear of an uprising of, 41; aid the English in Pequot War, 43. Nashaway, plantation at, 47; 62. Nasing, the birth-place of John Eliot, 66. Natick, Indian church at, 60, 69, 79. Naumkeag, 10, 11 n. 2. Negro infant baptized, 99. Negroes, 59. Neihumkek, 11. Neipnett, 20. New-Church Chap
Brick Tavern (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
Bradshaw, Eleazer, sells tea, 85. Bradstul, Simul, owner of Oldham Farm, 38. Brewer, Col., Jonathan, wounded at Bunker Hill, 82; proposed an expedition to Quebec, 103 n. 1. Brick building for English weavers still standing, 126. Brick Tavern, old, 89, 90. Bridge; Matthew, Cornet Nathaniel, William property of, 80. Bridge on Lyman Place, 96. Bridges at Bemis Station, 128. Bright, Deacon Henry, Jr., fatal accident to, 49-50; marriage and residence, 50. Bright, John, t, George, installed over Indep. Cong. Soc., 116. Sir Loin of beef knighted, 66 n. 1. Skelton, Samuel, pastor at Salem, 11. Sleepers in church kept awake, 76. Small lots, 39, 50. Small-pox Hospital, 80, 91. Smith: David built Brick Tavern, 89, 90; Samuel built Prospect House, 89. Snake Rock Hill, 106. Soil rich in Trapelo, 81. Soldiers' Aid Society, 111. Soldiers drafted for Indian war, 62. Soldiers' monument, 110. Somersetshire, colonists from 13. Somervill
Dedham (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
people, 58. Cutstomach obtains a gun, 59-60, Cutting Tavern (the), 83. Cutting, Richard, 39, 83, 97. Cutting, Uriah, Jr., projector of the mill-dam, 97 n. 1. Dam, original, across Charles River at Bemis Station, 125. Dates, Old Style and New Style, 64 n. 3. Davenport, Ensign, Richard, 41; Truecross, 41 n. 4. Davis, Seth, 126. Day, Stephen, first printer in New England, 47. Dead spindle invented by Paul Moody, 131. Deaths, 200 in eight months after arrival, 16. Dedham, land granted to, 20, 24 n. 2; 79. Deer park, 96. Deerfield attacked in 1665, 61. Deerfield massacre in 1703, 56 n. 3. Devil's Den, Stony Brook, 105-6. Devonshire, colonists from, 13. Diamond dust, cost of, 137. Disaffection throughout English realm, 9. Dispersion of the settlers, 15. Division in the church at Watertown, 24. Dix, Jonas, school-master, 95, 97, 100, 101, 103. Domestic goods, only one shop where sold in Boston, 131. Dorchester settled by the
Charles (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
Aberginians: Indians between Mystic and Charles Rivers, 11 n. 4 Abousett River, 38 n. 2. Adamid, and Dr. Enos Sumner erect a dam across Charles River, 125; built first grist and snuff mill in arriages, 25; allowed to keep a ferry over Charles River, 25; chosen often as Representative, 25; cill-dam, 97 n. 1. Dam, original, across Charles River at Bemis Station, 125. Dates, Old StyleFall of fresh waters, 21, 70. Falls: of Charles River, 21, 70; a disadvantage attending most of o New England, 12. Massachusetts River, Charles River called by this name, 13, n. 4. Massasoiuinobequin not the original Indian name of Charles River, 13 n. 4. Quonehtacut, River, 35. Qunnon of name, 69; the place three leagues up Charles River, 15 n. 2; valuation of, 139; 108. Walthhe town, 21; granted land on south side of Charles River, 21. Weathersfield settled by explorerss a house for Rev. Mr. Wilson, 23; goes up Charles River and names several localities in Waltham, 2[4 more...]
Connecticut (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
h, 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, curiositiesies, 57. Congregational order first adopted in New England by the Watertown church, 22. Connecticut; river, 34; a fine place for trade, 35: sixty settlers start for, 39, 40; 42, 57. Continenned for land, 34; desire to remove, 34; additional lands granted to, 35; congregation move to Connecticut, 39, 40, 100. Nichols, Henry, founder of the Familists, 32 n. 1. Nixon: Col., 89; Capt.ty for cutting down trees on common, 52. Penn, William, 60. Pequot Indians offer lands in Connecticut, 35 n. 2; murder Stone and Norton, 40; harass Connecticut settlers, 42; capture of the strongConnecticut settlers, 42; capture of the stronghold of, 43; exterminated, 44. Pequusset the Indian name of Watertown, 16 n. 2. Pequusset common, 16 n. 2, 50; meadow, 50. Philips, Jonathan, 56. Philips house still standing, 45. Philli
Springfield (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
ns not to be had for money, 18; prices of articles, 33. Pumpkin pies give place to quince tarts, 57. Puritans, Seventeenth century, 29. Puritanism, fundamental idea of, 23. Pynchon, at Roxbury, has the Western fever, 36; settles at Springfield, 40. Quinobequin not the original Indian name of Charles River, 13 n. 4. Quonehtacut, River, 35. Qunnubbagge, 13 n. 4. Rebellion, Waltham's record in, 110 Regiments at Waltham and Watertown, 100. Regulator for water-wheel, 131.mersetshire, colonists from 13. Somerville, 38. Southcot, Mr., a brave soldier, 14. Southside. territory included in, 137. Spirit of liberty in thought and action, 23. Sportsman's paradise, 81. Spring. Dr. Marshall, 82 n. 1. Springfield settled, 40. Squadron lines, 51. Squeb, Capt., a merciless man, 13; lands his passengers on Nantasket Point, 13. Steam-power introduced at factory, 133. Steams: Isaac, autograph, 79; 81, 100; Isak, autograph, 79; Jonathan, 88; Phin
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...