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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)
and Work. Prov., 1653, chap. 28. calls it a fruitful plot of large extent, 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 branches of Charles River, very fruitful and of large extent; watered with many pleasant Springs, and small Rivulets. We beganne againe in December, says Dudley, to consult him that he was unable to perform his duties. Then, being very melancholy and having the gout, he moved to Boston about the year 1693, where he died December 12, 1697. The earliest book of Church records in the town was kept by him, beginning in 1686, and ending in 1692, during which time he records 39 marriages, 361 baptisms, and 117 persons admitted to the Church. In connection with the installation of Rev. John Bailey an accident happened which resulted in the death of the oldest survivi
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)
opriateness of the name is manifest to even a casual observer of the beautiful groups of trees that have been preserved in various parts of the town, especially upon the Gore and Lyman estates. The following is an extract from a letter written in 1686 by John Dunton, a careful observer, to his father-in-law in England, describing a ramble made by a party from Boston to attend the annual sermon preached to the Indians at Natick. The men rode upon horseback, each having a lady companion upon thehe miller noticed the sudden checking of his wheel, and looking out, found the child unhurt, sitting up to the waist in the shallow water below the mill. In 1653 this mill was rated at £ 140 for the support of the ministry. Before the close of 1686 a fulling-mill had been erected adjoining the corn-mill, by the proprietors 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, su