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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)
ccupied by Captain Samuel Barnes in 1798. His father-in-law, Phinehas Warren, father of Peter, occupied the place before him, and he was probably preceded by his father Joshua, grandson of John Warren, who came to Watertown in 1630, and with Abraham Browne was appointed to lay out all the highways. March 14, 1658-59, he was warned for not attending public worship; but Old Warren is not to be found in town. He was also fined for not attending public worship, and for violating the law concerninjust referred to, were the only ones in the town for the first seventy, probably the first hundred years after its settlement. In 1778 David Bemis, who had purchased 39 acres of land on the Watertown side Probably a part of the grant to Abraham Browne, the first surveyor in the town, who had some acres here above Dirty Green. of the river, and Dr. Enos Sumner, who then owned the land on the Newton side, constructed the original dam across Charles River, at Bemis Station, where the Aetna Mi
The Daily Dispatch: October 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Timely arrival. (search)
Alien enemies. The following persons, having declared themselves aliens, have been granted passports to leave the Confederate States: W. S. Wilmer; Jacob Kafer, S. T. Perry; G. W. Donoho, wife and child; S. W. Carnell; Abraham Browne; Nathaniel Carusi; Jane Carr and Mrs. Margaret Carr. We are glad to learn that the Government will henceforth exercise extreme caution in granting passports to this class of persons.