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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 2: civil History. (search)
itants. Canal. Palisade. arrival of the Braintree company. Common pales. division of lands. highways The purpose for which Cambridge was originally established as a town is stated by two of its projectors, Winthrop and Dudley. The governor and most of the assistants, had agreed to build a town fortified upon the neck, between Roxbury and Boston, Dec. 6, 1630; but, for several reasons, they abandoned that project, eight days afterwards, and agreed to examine other places. On the twenty-first day of the same month: We met again at Watertown, and there, upon view of a place a mile beneath the town, all agreed it a fit place for a fortified town, and we took time to consider further about it. Savage's Winthrop, i. 45, 46. Dudley, describing the events of 1630, in his letter to the Countess of Lincoln, says, We began again in December to consult about a fit place to build a town upon, leaving all thoughts of a fort, because upon any invasion we were necessarily to lose our hou