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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. 7 7 Browse Search
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. 5 1 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 4 4 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 3 3 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 2 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 2 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 2 2 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: March 23, 1865., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 1 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore) 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)
ale's Monasticom. Tovi, the original founder, had a prodigal son, named Athelstan, who squandered his father's great estates so that by some transaction this place returned to the crown. Harold received Waltham and the lands thereabouts from Edward the Confessor, his brother-in-law, and in gratitude for his wonderful cure by the holy cross immediately built and endowed there a monastery. He bestowed seventeen manors upon the Dean and Canons, for their support. Most historians state that Hwith bricks of remarkably large size. It has two pointed arches, a larger and a smaller one; the outer mouldings of the large arch rest on corbels, formed by two demi-angels supporting shields, on which (but much corroded), are the royal arms of Edward the Third's time, viz.: France and England, quarterly. With the modern pronunciation of the name, Wal-tham, instead of Walt-ham (Walt-'um), As it is pronounced in England. appears to have been lost the original Saxon home-liness of its deri
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., Index. (search)
ew England, 10. Governor's cocked hat, 76. Grant of lands to the new Dorchester Company, 9. Grant of Waltham lands, 52. Granite dam built at factory, 133. Great Dividends, the, 51. Great Pond in the woods, 27 n. 1, 81. Green, Mr., Henry, first minister at Reading, 46 n. 3. Green Tavern (the) , public dinner at, 89. Grist-mill, the first, 123; child carried under the wheel, 124. Groton attacked by Indians, 61. Groton. Suffolk Co., England, 23 n 1. Guild, Rev. Edward C., pastor of First Parish, 117. Gun, firing of a, after night watches punished by whipping, 18; heavy fine for one that should permit an Indian to use a, 23. Hagar: Amos, 85: Benjamin, Isaac, Jonathan, 88; Joseph, 71, 93; Lois, William, 89. Hagar's lane once well settled, 93. Hamlin, Hon., Hannibal, maternal ancestors of, 97 n. 3. Hammond: Ephraim, 95; Jonathan, 90, 95; Deacon Thomas, 71, 95. Hancock, John: votes cast for him for Governor, 105. Hardy's Pond, 81 n. 1.