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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)
from 1644 to 1675; Representative thirteen years, 1663-75. He was a grantee of seven lots, including twenty-five acres in 1st Great Dividend. His homestall was near Fresh Pond. He also purchased another on the south side of Mount Auburn Street, west of the old burying ground. He was for many years a licensed innholder.—Bond. of Watertown, was making ready to come to its relief. He and Captain Lothrop had been sent to Brookfield with their companies, from Boston, August 7th. On the 4th of September, as he drew near the town, still ignorant of the attack that had been made upon it, he was ambushed and himself and twenty of his band of thirty-six men were killed. He was one of four men sent out in 1669 by the General Court to examine this section of country, and was one of the first white men—perhaps the very first—to be buried in its soil. And it is not unlikely that his grave is very near the spot whence he caught a first look of the site of the town. History of Northfield, p. <
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)
part of the town. August 28, 1749, the expenses of a funeral in old tenor were for Coffin £ 4 10s. Carrying to grave £ 3 10s. ringing Bell 18s. Paul £ 1, eight pairs of gloves £ 7 4s. In 1751 Mr. Matthew Bridge, being present at a town-meeting, gave the town £ 1 6s. 8d. as a gift in consideration of his congregating with them. At the town-meeting March 25, 1737-8, the town voted £ 111 as the salary of the Rev. Warham Williams for three-quarters of the year, from December 4th to September 4th, and £ 9 for cutting and carting of his firewood. It also voted, that the Selectmen should take Care that the meeting-hous be landed up, and the ammunition Sequred. The arms and ammunition belonging to the town were at first kept in the belfry of the Church, but after 1806 in a small brick building erected for them, in the grave-yard. It was located on the highest ground on the west side and cost $76.75. The same meeting granted to Samuel Livermore Samuel Livermore was the grand n