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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)
equipment and transportation was £ 21,200. So stated in Josselyn's Chronological Observations. But in his Two Voyages [1663] he has the following: The Twelfth of July, Anno Dom. 1630, John Wenthorp, Esq.; and the assistants, arrived with the Pate, watered with many pleasant springs, and rivulets, running like rivers throughout her body. Josselyn in his Two Voyages, 1663, and Dunton in his Letters from New England, 1686, use identical words, and describe Water-Town as built upon one of the beir land in tillage 1800 acres. Describing the people of the Colony and their customs Josselyn says in his Two Voyages, 1663, Scolds they gag and fet them at their doors for certain hours, for all comers and goers by to gaze at. . . . The grose Goroprietor, admitted Freeman March 16, 1636-7: Selectman most of the time 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
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)
nd I took a View of the Town, which is built upon one of the branches of Charles River, very fruitful, and of large extent: watered with many pleasant Springs, and small Rivulets: The Inhabitants live flatteringly. Josselyn in his Two Voyages, 1663, from which our Dunton borrows this part of his description, uses the word scatteringly here, which seems to fit better. See p. 17. Within half a mile is a great Pond divided between the two Towns. Newtown and Watertown. Fresh Pond is meant. prietors of the latter. The next mill built was within the limits of Waltham, and was a fulling-mill, erected in 1662 or 3 on Beaver Brook, in the eastern corner of the town, supposed to be on the spot where Kendall's Grist-Mills stood; sold in 1663 to Thomas Livermore, and eight years later Captain Benjamin Garfield purchased part of it. Previous to 1690 a corn-mill had also been erected there. In 1700 these mills or a part of them belonged to Samuel Stearns. The third mill is referred to