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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. 1 1 Browse Search
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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., January 15, 1738. (search)
s 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 in a vote passed at a town-meeting, held January 5, 1679-80, by which it was granted that the new corn-mill now fet up and to be finished at Stony Brook, be freed from rates for 20 years from that date. In 1684 they were owned by John Bright and others. These mills, says Bond, were probably owned some time by Lieutenant John Brewer, and afterwards, for a long time, known as Bigelow's Mills. The mills built on the three points just referred to, were the only ones in the town for the first seventy, probably the first hundred years after its