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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)
alf long, which secures all their weaker Cattell from the wilde beasts; what was true of New-towne was doubtless equally true of Watertowne, a place nothing inferior for land, wood, medow, and water to the former, and the wealthier of the two at this time. From 1632 to 1635 near twenty confiderable ships came each year, and with the increase in numbers of settlers there arose a scarcity of laborers and consequent demand for excessive wages. To check this, the General Court ordered in November, 1633, that carpenters and masons should not receive above 2s. per diem, and laborers not above 18d, At the court held September 28, 1630, the wages of common laborers were fixed at 6d. a day, and those of mechanics who were employed in building, at 16d., in addition to meat and drink. The following March this order was rescinded. and that merchants should not advance above 4d. in the shilling on what their goods cost in England. But this first attempt to regulate prices met with no better