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.

Abousett River, 38 n. 2.

Adam's Chair, named by Gov. Winthrop, 26; location of 28, 97 n. 2.

Adams, Alvin, residence, 50.

Adams, John, passes through Waltham on way to New York, 108.

Adventurers, the merely speculative, 9.

Aetna Mill Co., 128.

Aetna Mills, 100, 125.

Agawam visited, 34.

Alarm, first general, at night, 18.

Allowance to those distressed by the Indian War, 62.

Altercation, a political, begins at Watertown, 28; its result, 30.

American Watch Co., incorporated, 136; factory buildings, 136, 138; accuracy of their watch movements, 137; delicate precision of machine work, 136.

Amsterdam, ships from, 15.

Ammunition for each soldier prescribed, 18.

Angier, Rev., Samuel, pastor in new meeting-house, 54; death of, 55; records kept by, 56.

Anti-war sermon by Mr. Ripley, 109.

Appleton, Nahan, encourages cotton manufacture, 130; first agent for selling goods, 131.

Appleton, Tracey & Co. purchase watch factory, 136.

Arbella (the), the admiral of Winthrop's fleet, 12 n. 3; arrives at Salem, 13.

Architecture, Puritan, 75.

Arms and ammunition, where kept, 73-4.

Assabet River, land at, 20.

Assessment for support of ministers, 23.

Assistants chosen, 12, 34.

Bailey, Rev., John, succeeds Mr. Sherman, 49.

Bailey, Rev., Thomas, 49.

Ball, John, killed at Lancaster, 61.

Ballots, first elections held by, 34.

Banks, Hon. N. P., residence of, 88.

Bars: boiled, 14; exchanged for bisket-cake, 14.

Basse and other fish, 100,000 taken at Watertown wear, 21.

Bastable, 10 n. 1.

Bearers at funerals, 72.

Beaver Brook named by Gov. Winthrop, 26; and its branches, 26-27; source of, 27; once four rods wide, 83; mouth of changed, 97.

Beaver Brook plowlands, 51; allotted, 53.

Beaver Meadow, 27.

Beavers, dams made by the, 26.

Beers, Capt., Richard, and his company, ambushed, 61.

Bell the first church, 112; sold to Trin Cong. Soc. of Winchester, 115.

Bellingham, Richard, first deputy-governor elected by ballots, 34.

Belmont separated from Waltham by Beaver Brook, 27; incorporated, 138.

Better currency (a) than specie, 94.

Bemis, Abraham, house of, 119.

Bemis, David, and Dr. Enos Sumner erect a dam across Charles River, 125; built first grist and snuff mill in Watertown at Bemis Station, 125; Isaac, 90.

Bemis, Seth: his cotton factory, 125; owner of whole water power, 127; sells his right to raise his dam 12 inches, 127. Seth, jr., 128.

Bemis Manufacturing Co. incorporated, 127.

Bemis tavern, one of oldest houses in town, 90.

Benjamin, Daniel, 64, 70, 71.

Biglow, Lt., Thomas, 70, 71.

Bigelow: Abijah, Jacob, 89; Joshua, 97.

Bill of fare for ordination, 111 n. 3.

Bird Tavern (the), 84; militia trainings at 86.

Bisket-cake exchanged for a bass, 3, 14, 63.

Black lead, a whole rock of, 35.

Bleachery established, 132; new buildings at, 134; finishes fifteen tons of goods daily, 134.

Blessing of the Bay, the first vessel built in the colony, 34.

Block Island, 40, 41, 42.

Boarding-houses at factory in good hands, 131.

Boies, John: his cottage and paper-mill at Eden Vale, 92; location of, 130 n. 1; purchased by Boston Manufacturing Co., 92, 93, 130.

Booths, people lying in, 22.

Boston, settlement of, 2, 15; 23, 33, 60, 69.

Boston Bay or Harbor at first called Massachusetts Bay, 11 n. 3.

Boston Manufacturing Co. incorporated, 130; purchases property of Cotton & Wool Factory Co., 132.

Boston Rock Hill, 28.

Boston Watch Co. at Roxbury, 135; move to Waltham, 135; failure of, 136.

Boundary questions between Watertown and New Town, 19.

Bounty for killing squirrels and blackbirds, 98; to soldiers in Canada expedition, 101.

Bowers, Mrs. Isaac: only domestic goods store in Boston, 131.

Bowles, Mrs., Sarah, innkeeper, 90.

Bradford, Alden, plants a willow near cotton factory, 130 n. 1.

Bradford, Governor of Plymouth, visits Salem, 11; gives right hand of fellowship to church, 12; visits Winthrop to arrange for trading at the Connecticut, 35; complains against the settlers on the Conn;, 36; shrewdness of, 37.

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. [144]

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, tanner, etc., 83, 103, 104, 109 n. 2.

Bright, J. B., 6, 83.

Brighton, 22, 79.

‘Brown Papers’ (the), old French war, 99.

Brown, Capt., Abraham, autograph, 56.

Brown, Capt., John, autograph, 94.

Brown, Capt., Jonathan, 99.

Brown, William, 64, 70, 73, 79, 81, 97 n. 3, 102.

Browne, Richard, a ruler in a church in London, 23: independence of, 24; elder at Watertown, 24; complaints of congregation against, 24; discharged from his office of elder, 24; lands granted to him, 24 n. 2; a person of consequence, 24; zealous in maintaining church discipline, 24; an unflinching supporter of Rev. Geo. Phillips, 25; appointed a commissioner ‘to end small causes,’ 25; empowered to officiate at marriages, 25; allowed to keep a ferry over Charles River, 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 by King Charles, 13 n. 4; original Indian name of, Mishaum, 13 n. 4; probable origin of name Quinobequin, 13 n. 4.

Charlestown, 2, 14, 18, 19, 23, 33, 34, 62; first settled by a small party from Salem, 10; under orders, 38; plantation at, 11, 15.

Cherton, or Charlestown, built, 11.

Chester, Leonard, 27.

Chester Brook, the western branch of Beaver Brook, 27; origin of the name, 27; Clarke's grist-mill on, 97; Shedd's machine-shop, 97.

Child carried under the mill wheel, 124.

Chinery, John, mortally wounded at North-field. 61.

Christ Church, parish of, organized, 119.

Chocolate manufactured by Seth Bemis at his mill, 125.

Choir (the), displeased, 74-5; seats occupied by, 76.

Church edifice of First Church (Mr. Ripley's) sold in lots, 115.

Church, First, in Massachusetts Bay organized at Salem, 12.

Church organized at Watertown by Rev. George Phillips the second in Massachusetts Bay, 22; location of, 44.

Church, second, built above Mt. Auburn, 44, 45.

Church members only to be trusted with the liberties of the commonwealth, 30.

Church on the Common, 115.

Church records, earliest, 49.

Clap, Roger: his account of first landing at Watertown, 13; describes early privations of the settlers, 18.

Clark; John, constable, 32: John, jr., 87; Jonas, hatter, 88; Dr. Josiah, 82.

Clarke, Capt., John, 97, 105; Clarke's grist-mill, 97, 122.

Clematis Brook (so called), 27.

Climate and its effects, 59.

Cloth for raiment not cut short, 57.

Coal gas, first use of for lighting in U. S., 126.

Commission for selling cotton goods, 131.

Committee of Safety's call for minute men, 100.

Committee to advise about raising public moneys, 29.

Committee to levy war tax, 103.

Company H, 16th Reg, Mass. Vol., 110.

Concord overlaps Watertown, 20; settlement of, 20; ‘six myles of land square’ granted to, 20, 62.

Confederation, articles of, endorsed, 103.

Confederation of the four colonies, 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.

Continental army, men in the, 102, 104.

Convent of Waltham, Eng., founded by Tovi, the Dane, A. D. 1020, 66.

Coolidge, Gen Jonathan, 94, 95.

Copper wire for paper molds, machine for weaving, 125 n. 2.

Corn, abundance of, 11; scarcity of, 33.

Corn-mills at Beaver Brook, Mill Creek and Stony Brook, 124.

Cost of weaving reduced by introduction of power looms, 126.

Cotton, John, on honest men, 30.

Cotton cloth, all processes for making, in one building, 131.

Cotton Duck first made by Seth Bemis, 126.

Cotton goods, first pieces made at Waltham, 131; woven by Seth Bemis before 1810, 125.

Cotton-mill, first in the town, 92.

Cotton warp, demand for machine made, 125.

Council for New England grant lands to the new Dorchester Company, 9.

Council of seven persons with two of the planters to act with Endicott, 10.

Counties of Middlesex, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk formed 58. [145]

Court at South-Hampton aboard the Arbella, 12; of Assistants, 18-22, 25, 28-29.

Covenant, signing of constitutes the organization of a church, 22.

Cowes, Winthrop's fleet riding at the, 12.

Cradock, Matthew, first Governor of the new Dorchester Company, 10; owner of Oldham Farm, 38.

Crayons, colored and white, 141.

Cross, the red, a superstitious thing, 25.

Cuff, Felix, and other negroes hide in the Devil's Den, 105; pay for his services in the war, 105 n. 2.

Currency, Continental, 77, 105.

Curtains at two meeting-house windows, 98.

Cushing, Rev., Jacob, ordained, 74; death of, 77: character and influence, 78; his papers sold to Peter Force of Washington, 111 n. 2.

Cushing: Rev. Job, 77; Leonard Williams, 88; Warham, 86.

Customs of the 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 western men, 15; why so named, 14 n. 2; 22, 36, 40.

Dorchester Company, the new: grants of land to, 9; solicits and obtains a royal charter, 10.

Dorchester fields, first landing in Watertown, 14.

Dorsetshire, colonists from, 13.

Double speeder invented by Paul Moody, 131.

Draft from the militia, 102.

Driftway (the), now Gore St., 51.

Drinking of healths abolished, 33.

Dudley, Thomas, chosen Deputy-Governor Mass. Bay Co., 12; letter to the Countess of Lincoln, 14-16; 24.

Dummer, Jeremie, goldsmith, of Boston, 39.

Dummer, Richard, owner of Oldham Farm, 39.

Dunton, John, his ramble to Natick, 69.

Dutch: fort on the Connecticut, 35; plantation on Hudson's River called New Netherlands, 35; vessel driven off by J. Winthrop, Jr., 39.

Dutch (the) send home for authority to deal with the settlers on the Connecticut, 36.

Dwelling-houses on Main St. in 1800, 82.

Easterbrook, Rev. Mr., at ordination of Mr. Angier, 54.

East Lexington, 27.

Eaton, Nathaniel, first principal of Harvard College, 58 n. 1.

Eden Vale in Waltham, 92.

Edes, J. W., artist, 98.

Edgarton settled, 46.

Edward the Confessor, 67.

Edye (or Eddie), John, insanity of, 32; chosen one of the first three selectmen, 34.

Elections, how conducted, 34.

Eliot, John, begins missionary labors, 60; antedated by those of Thomas Mayhew, Jr., at Martha's Vineyard, 47 n. 1; birth-place, 66.

Eliot, John, fish story told by, 28.

Ellison, James, 84, 96.

Endicott, John, and five associates, the new Dorchester Company, 9; agent of the patentees, 10; at Naumkeag, 10; made Governor under the Massachusetts Bay Company, 10; cuts red cross from the king's ensign, 25; censured for the act, 26; commands first expedition against the Pequots, 41.

England, ships return to, 16.

English troops for French War arrive, 99; encamped at Dirty Green in Watertown, 100.

English weavers employed on hand looms, 126.

Epping or Waltham Forest, 66 n. 1.

Expenses for equipment and transportation of Winthrop's company, 12.

Factory school-house on Elm St., 131; at lower village, 132.

Factory with orderly surroundings, 129.

Fairs appointed at Watertown, 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 Pond, 28.

Fishing stations of the Adventurers failure, 9. [146]

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.

Foley, John, tailor, 84.

Food of the early settlers, 33.

Forbush, Mr., Eli, called to be pastor, declined, 99.

Foreigners to purchase a man's right, 40.

Forsath, Mr., auctioneer, 131.

Foster, M. S. 83.

Francis, Dr., Convers, 45.

Franklin, Benj., Winthrop's letter to, 77.

Freemen, only church members admitted, 30.

French preparations against colonists, 15.

Freshets sweep away bridges, 128.

Fresh Pond, 19, 70 n. 2.

Fulling-mill, the first built on Beaver-Brook, 124; at Mill Creek, 124.

Funeral expenses, 72, 73, 74.

Gale: Abraham, 39; Alpheus, Anna, 93: Jacob, 88; John, 39; Richard, Samuel, 93.

Gale, Richard, owns half of Oldham farm, 39.

Gallup, John, captures Oldham's pinnace from his murderers, 40; goes after pirate Bull, 43 n. 1.

Garfield: Edward, buys 40 acres of Phillips's heirs, 47; Jacob, 96; Joseph, 39; Samuel, 96.

General Court of Delegates, first, 30.

Gibbs, Henry, assistant pastor, 50; ordained at Watertown, East End, in open air, 54 n. 1.

Gleason, Capt., Isaac, 84, 101.

Gleason's Tavern, 84.

Goffe, Thomas, first Deputy Governor of new Dorchester Company, 10.

Goldstone: Anne, Mary, Henry, 50.

Gore, Christopher, received as a citizen, 82; afterward Governor of the Commonwealth 76 n. 3, 82; mansion and grounds. 48.

Gorges, John, grants land to John Oldham, 38.

Gorges, Robert, 38.

Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, 10.

Governor's cocked hat, 76.

Grant of lands to the new Dorchester Company, 9.

Grant of Waltham lands, 52.

Granite dam built at factory, 133.

Great Dividends, the, 51.

Great Pond in the woods, 27 n. 1, 81.

Green, Mr., Henry, first minister at Reading, 46 n. 3.

Green Tavern (the) , public dinner at, 89.

Grist-mill, the first, 123; child carried under the wheel, 124.

Groton attacked by Indians, 61.

Groton. Suffolk Co., England, 23 n 1.

Guild, Rev. Edward C., pastor of First Parish, 117.

Gun, firing of a, after night watches punished by whipping, 18; heavy fine for one that should permit an Indian to use a, 23.

Hagar: Amos, 85: Benjamin, Isaac, Jonathan, 88; Joseph, 71, 93; Lois, William, 89.

Hagar's lane once well settled, 93.

Hamlin, Hon., Hannibal, maternal ancestors of, 97 n. 3.

Hammond: Ephraim, 95; Jonathan, 90, 95; Deacon Thomas, 71, 95.

Hancock, John: votes cast for him for Governor, 105.

Hardy's Pond, 81 n. 1.

Harold, son of Earl Godwin, 66; received Waltham (Eng.)from Edward the Confessor, 67.

Harrington: Amos, 87; once the richest man in town, 88 n. 1; Benjamin, 93; Josiah, 71; Samuel, 96.

Harrington, George, killed. 61.

Harrington, Robert, bought half of Oldham Farm, 39, 61 n. 6.

Harrington Tavern, 88.

Hartford first called Newtown, 35 n. 1, 40; Dutch fort at, 35; 42.

Harvard College, 44 n. 3, 49, 58 n. 1, 77, 117, 119, 123.

Harvests, scanty, 33.

Hastings, Lt., Eliphalet, and others indicted for riot, 105; Joseph, 70

Hawkins, Tim, whipped and branded, 60.

Hay of Mr. Phillips and others burnt, 17.

Hay-scales, lofty, 84.

Haynes, John, first Governor elected by ballots, 34.

Hell's mouth, poor-house of 1750 at, 96.

Hemp, better than the English, grows at the Connecticut, 35.

Henry I., 67; II., 67; III.; 68.

Herrington, Timothy, first schoolmaster, 71.

Hewes, Joshua, gravestone found, 50.

Higginson, Francis, minister for first colonists, 11; arrives at Salem, 11; ordained as teacher at Salem, 11; prepared Confession of Faith and Covenant, 11; death of, 16

Highway to Concord to be 6 rods broad, 52.

Highways, ancient, 78.

Highways, order to lay out, 51.

Hill, Rev., Thomas, pastor of Independent Cong. Soc , 116, 117; inventor, 141.

Hoar, Joseph, 88.

Hogreves, 71, 73 n. 1.

Hooker, Rev. Mr. of New Town, 35, 39.

Hour-glass in the pulpit, 76.

Hudson's River, Dutch plantation on, 35.

Hull, 13 n. 2

Humphrey, John, chosen Deputy Governor of Mass. Bay Co, 12

Hurd cottage, the, 50.

Husbandmen, the, 32.

Immigrants, three thousand arrive, 39.

Immigration ceased after the Revolution in England, 57.

Incorporation, act of, 65. [147]

Independence in thought and action, 23.

Independence, Town pledged to, 101.

Independent Congregational Society organized, 116; Rev. George Simmons pastor, 116; list of pastors, 116-117; name changed to First Parish, 117.

India cottons imitated, 131.

Indian corn from Virginia, 19.

Indians converted at Martha's Vineyard, 47 n. 1; dwelling on western shore of Sherman's Pond, 28; exchange fish for bread, 14; paid for lands, 60; sell corn to the starving settlers, 19; threaten to burn Watertown, 62.

Industrial Exhibition, 141.

Inoculation for small-pox forbidden, 91.

Jackson, Patrick T., manager of the Boston Manufacturing Co., 130,

Jennings, Capt., William, 58 n. 1 (see next name).

Jenison, Ensign, William, 41; autograph, 41 n. 3; one of the three first selectmen, 34.

Jewell (the) arrives at Salem, 13.

Jewels, watch, how made, 136; delicate measurement of, 137.

Johnson, Lady, Arbella, death of, 16.

Johnson, Mr., death of, 16.

Kendall: Jonas B., Josiah S., 79.

Kendall's grist-mill, 79, 124.

Kimball, Henry, dwelling of, 85.

Kimball Tavern, 86-7, 110.

King Phillip's War begun, 60-62.

King's colors mutilated, 25, 41 n. 4.

King's common. 50.

Knowles, Rev., John, ordained associate pastor, 46; went to Virginia and returned, 46; returns to England, 48.

Laborers, scarcity of, 31.

Lancaster, first settlement at, 47 n. 3; attacked by Indians, 60; second attack, 61.

Land Bank Co., 94.

Land in Great Dividends allotted, 53.

Lawrence: Geo. sen., lands of, 70, 79; Jacob, Leonard, 117.

Leagues. three up Charles River, 15.

Levy by General Court, 100.

Levy for palisade at Newtown, 28; resisted by Watertown, 29.

Lexington. 100, 107.

Library, The Manufacturers', established, 132.

Library given to Rumford Institute, 132

Library given to the town, 135.

Lieu of Township lots, 51.

Lightning-rods introduced, 77.

Lily pond, 27.

Lincoln, 9, 100.

Liquor law, first, 33.

Liquors, first retailer of, 90.

Livermore Farm, 27, 83.

Livermore: Abijah, 86; Elijah, 95, 104.

Livermore, John. ancestor of all of that name in U. S., 95; Moses, 91.

Livermore, Nathaniel, 74 n. 1; 86, 91, 95.

Livermore, Samuel, 64, 70, 71, 72, 74, 75 n. 2, 83, 88 n. 1, 95, 97 n. 3, 99; autograph, 74 n. 1.

Livermore, Thomas, chosen deacon, 56; autograph, 56, n. 2; 70, 97, 124.

Lock, Nathan, last survivor of Revolutionary patriots, 104; Jonas, William, 103.

London, 10, 12, 15, 31, 48, 66 n. 1.

Longevity in Waltham, 108-9.

Long Island visited by the Blessing of the Bay, 35; 40, 46.

Loom, English, operated by a crank motion, adopted at Waltham and Lowell, 133.

Loom, Waltham, operated by a cam motion, 132.

Lothrop, Capt., sent to Brookfield, 61.

Lowell, Francis C., 91, 129; perfects the powerloom, 130.

Lowell, founded, 133.

Lowndes, Wm., of South Carolina, 132.

Ludlow, Roger, the assistant, arrives in the Mary and John, 13; has the western fever at Dorchester, 36.

Lyford, John, welcomed at Plymouth, 37; his complaining letters intercepted, 37; plays the penitent, 37.

Lyman place, Chester Brook flows through, 27, 95-6.

Lyman, Theodore, estate of, 95-6.

Lynn, 2, 41 n. 2.

McCauley, Rev. C., pastor of First Parish, 117.

Machinery at Waltham rebuilt, 133.

Machines, six new invented, 130.

Machine-shop on Chester Brook, 27, 97.

Mackerel Hill, 79.

Macomber, Zebedee, 90.

Main street a great thoroughfare, 91.

Manufacturing establishments, number of, 141.

Martha's Vineyard settled, 46.

Mary and John (the), Ludlow's ship arrives at Nantasket, 13.

Mason, Lt. Hugh, 58: autograph, 58 n. 2 made a captain, 58, n. 2; Capt. Hugh and his train-band at Sudbury, 62.

Mason, Capt. John, commander in the Pequot war, 43.

Massachusetts, 10, 15 n. 1, 38, 42, 57.

Massachusetts Bay, 11, 22, 38.

Massachusetts Bay: to what the name was first applied, 11 n. 3.

Massachusetts Bay Company incorporated, 10; sends out its first colony, 10; transfers its charter and government to New England, 12.

Massachusetts River, Charles River called by this name, 13, n. 4.

Massasoit Hotel, 83.

Masters's Brook, named by Gov. Winthrop, 26; in 1815, 17.

Masters, John, 26, 30.

Mattachusetts, 14.

Mattapan (Dorchester), settled, 14.

Maxwell House, 82, 96.

Mayhew, Thomas, granted the 150 acres on the south side of Charles River by the wear, 21: owner of Oldham Farm, 39, 46 n 2: sends settlers to Martha's Vineyard, 46, 58 n. 1.

Mayhew, Thomas, Jr., the first missionary among the Indians, 47 n. 1; pastor at Martha's Vineyard, 47; lost at sea, 47 n. 2.

Mead: Capt., 85; Hopestill , 79; Joshua, Moses, 81.

Meadford upon the Mistick settled, 15; 23.

Meadows, Remote or West Pine, 51, 52. [148]

Mead's Pond, 27, n. 1.

Meal, water and salt boiled together, 18, 57 n. 1.

Meeting-house Common, 45, 50.

Meeting-house, dispute about a new, 53; located near ‘Commodore's Corner,’ 53; Mr. Gibbs declines to be pastor of, 54: first in Waltham near Nathaniel Livermore's, 55; purchased from Newton, 55.

Meeting-house, new, on triangular plot, 75.

Meeting-house, first in Watertown, 44, 45; new, built at corner of Mt. Auburn and Grove Sts., 45.

Men and means furnished for Revolutionary War, 103-5.

Men drafted for the Indian War, 62 n. 4.

Merchants ‘damnable rich,’ 58.

Merrimack examined, 34.

Merrimack Manufacturing Co., incorporated, 133.

Merry-Mount, Wollaston's rabble at, 38.

Methodist preaching, first, 119; meeting-house in, Weston, 119.

Methodists buy the meeting-house on the common, 119; remove it to Moody St, 120; erect the present edifice, 120; list of pastors, 120.

Milford, Conn., 48.

Military trainings every Saturday, 18.

Militia, first Co. of, 102.

Mill Creek, a natural raceway, 123: the oldest in the country, 124.

Mill No. 2 erected in 1816, 131; new mills erected, 133, 134.

Miller, General, a public dinner given to, 89.

Mills, first three in the town, 124.

Mills and Ripley Fund, 118.

Mills, Ann, her legacy for the poor, 117.

Mills, Capt., Isaac, 89.

Ministers, houses ordered to be built for, 22; £ 60 levied for the support of two, 23.

Minute-men of the Revolution, 100.

Miracle, ‘casting out two devils,’ 109.

Mishaum the original Indian name of Charles River, 13 n. 4.

Mishawum, 10, 11 n. 4, 38.

Mistick, a good place upon for a settlement, 15; first vessel 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 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 Chapels, old and new, 122.

New-Church Institute of Education, 123.

New-Church School, 27, 122-3; favorable condition of, 123; provision for boarding pupils, 123.

New England coast, grant of to Earl of War-wick resigned to new Dorchester Co., 10.

New Haven, 44, 57.

New-Jerusalem Church, 122.

New Netherlands on Hudson River, 35.

Newspaper, the first punted in America, 62.

Newton, 79, 125, 137-8.

Newton Chemical Works, 134, 141.

Newton street voted, 96; widened, 132.

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, 57.

Orders for new goods registered, 132.

Ordination, bill of fare for, 111 n. 3.

Our Lady's Chapel, 68.

Paddocks, Mrs. Winter's, 59.

Paine, Wm., grant of land to, 95.

Palisade at Newton, 28

Panel picture in old Sanderson house, 98.

Paper-mill, Bemis's, 125. [149]

Paper-mill, Gov. Gore's, 91; John Boies's, 92.

Paper money to silver as 75 to 1, 105.

Paper molds repaired by Jacob Mead, 125 n. 2.

Parker, Wm., paper-mill, 91, 93.

Parkhurst, George Samuel, house of, 83.

Parmenter, J. W., 86.

Parsonage of Dr. Cushing, 96.

Parsonage of Rev. Warham Williams, 82, 96.

Parsons, Rev., Jas. C., pastor of Independent Cong. Soc., 117.

Parsons, Chief Justice. 82 n. 1.

Passengers, a thousand, arrive before 1630, 12.

Pasturage, people cramped for room for, 31.

Patrick, Capt., 32; joins Mason with reinforcements, 44; character of, 44 n 2, 58 n. 1.

Patrols to be kept every night, 18.

Peacocke, Cuffe, a colored soldier, 99.

Peirce, Deac. Isaac, 71, 109 n. 3.

Pembleton, Brian, one of the first three selectmen, 34.

Penalty 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 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.

Phillips, Rev., George, minister at Watertown, 23, 24: residence of 45; death of, 47; liberal grants of land to, 47.

Pierce, Abraham, the farm of, 92-3; 104.

Piety Corner, 97.

Pigeon Hill, 80.

Pigsgusset, a corruption of Pequusset, 16 n. 2.

Pilgrims, landing of, on Cape Cod, 9; struggles and privations of, 9.

Pinkney, Wm. commissioner to England, 82.

Piscataway, settlement at, 16.

Plain, Further or Great, 51.

Plain, Hither or Little, 51.

Plan of Watertown made in 1640 burned in Boston, 28.

Plantation at Watertown, 16.

Platinum retorts, 134, 141.

Plough (the), arrives, 31.

Plough or Ligonia patent, 31.

Plymouth, 2: Pilgrims at, 9; 11, 35, 36, 42, 57.

Pocket-book found, 99.

Point Allerton, 11 n. 3.

Political altercation at Watertown, 28.

Pond End, 27, 97.

Poor-Farm, 93.

Population of Waltham and Watertown compared, 138.

Potatoes, when introduced, 33.

Pound, a, built, 71.

Power loom, first successful, in America, 130.

Precincts, Eastern, Middle and Western, 54.

Prices, attempt to regulate, 31.

Priest, James, potter, 86, 104.

Prospect Hill, 60, 88, 141-2.

Prospect House, 88, 89.

Prosperity of settlers in 1642, 57.

Protestant Episcopal Church, 119.

Provincial Congress, 100.

Provisions from Holland and Ireland, 19.

Provisions 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.

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, the famous, 45.

Rome, churches of 24.

Rooster weather-vane, 77.

Rossiter, Edward, arrives, 13; death of, 16.

Roxbury, 2, 23, 36, 40, 62, 79.

Rum and cider at funerals, 72.

Rumford Building erected, 135; first lecture in Hall, 135.

Rumford Institute organized, 134; incorporated, 135; name of celebrated lecturers before, 135.

Sagadahock, 31.

Salem, 2; why so named, 10; first church in Massachusetts organized at, 12; 14, 15, 18; company sent from to Mishawum, 38.

Saltonstall: Gilbert; Richard, lord mayor of London; Samuel, 16 n. 1.

Saltonstall, Sir, Richard, leader of plantation at Watertown, 16; autograph, 16 n. 1; location of his homestall, 19, 44: first member of the church in Watertown, 22; provides a house for Rev. Mr. Phillips, 23; fined for whipping two persons, 23; children of, 23 n. 2; returned to England, 23, 25, 57; 79 n. 1.

Sanderson, Abner, 97 n. 2, 103, 104; Isaac, 80; Deacon John, house of, 98; Jonathan, deacon, 72, 97; Nathan, 117.

Sawgus, settlement upon the river of 15, 38 n. 2.

Sawin, Daniel, occupied ‘Phillips house,’ 45.

Saybrook, Conn., 39.

School, a moving, ordered, 71.

School-buildings, number of, 139.

School-house, first, in Trapelo, 80-1.

School-houses, Grammar and High, 139. [150]

School-girls raise money for Soldiers' Aid Society, 111.

Scolds, treatment of, 58.

Screws, infinitesimal, 136.

Scurvy, many sick with, 15.

Sea Island cotton, 126.

Seal of Watertown, 63.

Second Congregational Church (Whitman's, 1826) organized, 114.

Second Orthodox Church organized and dissolved, 114.

Second Religious Society (1812), 109; rejoins First Church, 110.

Second Religious Society (1820) incorporated, 112; Rev. Sewall Harding ordained pastor, 113; dismissed, 113; meeting-houses of, 113, 114.

Second Religious Society (1826), Bernard Whitman, pastor, 114: Warren Burton, pastor, 114; meeting-house struck by lightning, 115; new church on the Common, 115; sold to the Methodists, 115.

Selectmen, first use of the name, 34; first of Watertown, 34.

Servants, full supply of, 59.

Settlements, earlier New England, 9.

Settlers, dispersion of the, 15; many deaths among, 15; one hundred return, 16; privations and sufferings, 18; increase in numbers, 31; scattered upon farms, 53.

Sever, Nicholas, tutor at Harvard College, 119.

Sewall, Judge, extract from diary of, 49.

Shade trees marked, 52 n. 2; planted by Factory Co., 132; by Farmers' Club, 140.

Shattuck, Philip, funeral of, 72.

Shays, Daniel (Shays's rebellion), 107.

Shedd, Geo. F., machine-shop of, 97.

Sheetings, extra wide, manufactured, 133.

Sherman, Capt., John, 61.

Sherman, John, Jr., killed, 61.

Sherman, Rev., John. preaches his first sermon, 45; removes to Weathersfield, 46; returns and is ordained pastor, 48; autograph, 48 n. 1; lectures to Harvard students, 49.

Sherman's Pond, 27 n. 1; singular fatality to fish in, 28.

Sickness among the settlers, 15; and mortality at Charlestown, 22.

Simmons, Rev., 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.

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; Phinehas, 79; Samuel, 124.

Stearns, Rev. Dr., of Lincoln, 77.

Sterns, Widow, 53.

Stirling, Lord, received grant of Long Island, etc., 46.

Stocks set up, 71.

Stone, Capt., 40, 42.

Stone rolling-dam, 127.

Stony Brook, 15 n. 2, 38; boundary of middle precinct, 54; first mill at. 93, 124.

Stoughton Hall, Harvard College, 44 n. 3.

Stoughton, Israel, assists in exterminating the Pequots, 44; William, 44 n. 3.

Stove in church, 112.

Straight, Thomas, house of, 65, 78.

Students walk from Cambridge to Rev. John Sherman's lectures, 49.

Sudbury, 20, 47; attacked by Indians, 62.

Sudbury, Suffolk Co., England, 23 n. 1.

Suicide, first at Watertown, 63.

Sulphuric acid, manufacture of, 134.

Sumner, Dr., Enos, 125.

Sunday afternoon offerings, 58-9.

Supplies for the colony provided, 12.

Swanzey attacked by Indians, 60.

Swine, resolutions concerning, 33; allowed to run at large, 73.

Taverns, number of, 90-1.

Taxation, Watertown resists, 29.

Tax list, first, of Waltham, 48.

Teams go South with goods, 126.

Tea-selling bachelor (a), 85.

Territory, earliest divisions of, 50.

Thanksgiving, day of, 13.

Throstle filling frame, 131.

Timmins, Henry, 96.

Tin Horn, village of, 127.

Toothache remedy, 59.

Tovi, the Dane, founder of Waltham, Eng., 66-7.

Town, first use of the name, 33.

Town clerk, 34.

Town-meeting, fine for absence from, 52; first in Waltham, 70.

Town Plot, 52.

Townsend, Col., David, 84.

Townsend: Cornet David, 84, 85, 87: Deacon Samuel, 87.

Township, reservation for a, 51.

Trainings every Saturday, 18.

Trapelo road first settled, 78-9; origin of name, 78 n. 1.

Trimountaine, old name of Boston, 16 n. 2.

Trinitarian Congregational Church organized, 112; present name taken, 113; meeting-house of, 113-114.

Trumbull, Col. Jonathan, commissioner to England under Jay's treaty, 82. [151]

Turbine wheels introduced, 133.

Turner, Capt., Nathaniel, 41.

Twisting machine built for Seth Bemis, 125.

Uncas, a Mohegan chief, joins Capt. Mason, 43.

Underhill, Capt., John, 41, 43, 44 n. 2.

Union League of Waltham, 110.

United Colonies, support pledged to the, 101.

Universalist Society, 121; Church on Lyman street, 122; list of pastors, 122.

Upham: Nathan, 88; and Amos built papermill at Stony Brook, 93.

Valuation of the town, 98-9.

Van Twilly, Gwalter, warned not to build at the Connecticut, 36.

Vessels, number that came over before 1630, 12.

Village of Waltham in 1798, 86.

Virginia, appeal from for ministers, 46.

Wachusett Hill, lands at granted to Watertown, 20, 142.

Wadsworth, Capt. Samuel of Milton, at Lancaster, 61; ambushed at Sudbury, 62.

Wages, excessive, 31.

Wahginnacut visits Winthrop, 35.

Wales, Elkanah, bill of, 107.

Walker, Theophilus W., 48.

Walford, Thomas, first white settler at Mishaum or Charlestown, 14 n. 1.

Wall-paper, quaint old, 139.

Waltham: area of, 137; assessment upon, 100; description of, 128 n. 1; in war of 1812, 109; named from Waltham-Abbey, 66; originally part of Watertown, 9; population of, 138-9; pronunciation of name, 69; the place ‘three leagues up Charles River,’ 15 n. 2; valuation of, 139; 108.

Waltham-Abbey, 66-69.

Waltham Agricultural Library Association, 140.

Waltham Cotton and Wool Factory Co. incorporated, 92; description of, 128.

Waltham Improvement Co., 136.

Waltham plain, 26, 27, 38.

Waltham roads model roads, 51-52.

Wand, the constable's, 75.

War of 1812, Waltham in, 109.

Ward, Caleb, house of, 65.

Warham, Rev., John, 13.

Warping and dressing machine, 130.

Warren: Daniel, 101; Eliphalet, 86; John, 82, autograph, 94; Joshua, 94; Peter, 93, 94, 103: Phinehas, 94.

Warwick, Earl of, resigns grant of the New England coast, 10.

Washington. George, entertained in Waltham, 80; lodged at house of Widow Coolidge, 107; visit to Eastern States, 108.

Watch movements, grades of, 137.

Watch Pivots, delicate measurement of, 137.

Watches manufactured by machinery, 135; superiority of. 137.

Water-mill at Watertown, 21.

Water-works, 141.

Watertown, 2: towns originally included in, 9; first landing at, 14; first settlement at, 15; Indian name of, 16 n. 2; why so named, 16; date of incorporation, 17; bounds between Newtown and, 19; limits long undefined, 19; curtailment of territory, 20; lands granted to, 20; fisheries, 21-2; plan of in 1640 burned, 28; resists a levy, 29; first entry in records, 33; inhabitants granted leave to remove, 36; too many inhabitants in, 40; population, 138; passim 20-44, 60-65, 100, 108.

Wear at Watertown. 19; location of, 20; why built, 21 n. 1; built by permission of Gov. Winthrop, 21; Indians want to buy, 21; bought by the town, 21; granted land on south side of Charles River, 21.

Weathersfield settled by explorers from Watertown, 36; attacked by Indians, 42; 46.

Wellington family, remarkable longevity of, 108.

Wellington: Samuel, residence, 84; Seth, 88; Thomas, Jr., bought old church, 75 n. 2, tavern-keeper, 82; William, selectman, 81, 101.

Wellington's grove, 81.

Wellman Stephen, 84, 85.

Welsh, John. fine residence of, 84.

Welsteed, Wm., 118; Rev. Wm. declines a call, 118; librarian at Harvard College, 119.

Wessaguscus shore, 38.

Wesson, Capt., Zachary, builder of the ‘Green Tavern,’ 89.

Western fever raging, 36.

Weston: originally part of Watertown, 9; gets and sells its portion of lands granted at Wachusett Hill. 20; 52; 100; incorporated, 55; barn in burned by Indians, 62; 79, 108.

Westward growth of the town, 53.

Whipcutt, 26 n. 3.

Whipping as a means of punishment, 18.

White Mountains, 141 n. 1, 142.

Whitman, Rev. Bernard (Unitarian), pastor of Second Cong. Ch. (1826), 114; death of, 115.

Whitney: Joseph, 56; Nathaniel, 78; Sarah, 56.

Whitney's Hill, 53.

Whittemore, Rev., Thomas, 121.

Widow (the) Brick, 69.

Widow Coolidge's Tavern, 107.

Wigwams: turned into well-built houses, 57; dwellings in place of huts and, 57.

Wilderness, this, goes beyond England in food, 57.

Willard, Maj., goes to relieve Groton, 61.

William the Conqueror, 67.

Williams, Rev., Elisha, preaches for Second Religious Society (1812), 109.

Williams, Rev., John, of Deerfield, 56 n. 3.

Williams, Dr., Leonard, 91, 96, 100.

Williams, Roger, prevents an alliance between the Pequots and Narragansetts, 42.

Williams, Rev. Warham ordained, 56; salary, 73; wants town to buy him a negro boy, 98; death of, 74.

Willow near cotton factory, 130 n. 1.

Willows in front of Fiske house, 139.

Wilson, Mr., pastor at Boston, 23, 32.

Windsor, 22; Plymouth people build house at, 35; sends 30 men against the Pequots, 42.

Wine and sugar in plenty, 57.

Winnesemet, 23.

Winslow, Edward, visits Boston with John Bradford, 35.

Winter of 1630 very sharp in New England, 18. [152]

Winthrop, Adam, 26.

Winthrop, John, chosen governor of Mass. Bay Company, 12; letter to his wife, 12; searches up the Bay for a place at which to settle, 14; prudence of, 19; grants permission to build Watertown wear, 21; provides a house for Rev. Mr. Wilson, 23; goes up Charles River and names several localities in Waltham, 26; removes liquors from his table, 33; visited by Wahginnacut, 35.

Winthrop, John, jun., arrives, 39; letter to Benj. Franklin, 77.

Wiswall, Enoch, 91.

Wolfe-pen, 52.

Wolves: bounty offered for, 52; howling of, 18.

Women of Waltham, loyalty of, 111.

Women pitifully tooth-shaken, 59.

Wooden-ware factory of Moses Mead, 81.

Worcester, Rev., Thomas, residence of, 98.

Wyeth, Widow, funeral of, 72.