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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)
color as the Green Tavern. In 1795 it was kept by Captain Joseph Nixon, a son-in-law of the builder, who had been a fifer in the regiment commanded by his father, Colonel Nixon, in the Revolution. It was afterwards occupied as a tavern by Samuel Harrington, then by Charles Wesson, son of the builder, and at the time of the war of 1812 by Captain Isaac Mills. A public dinner was given here to which General Miller, of the army on the frontier was invited. He came late, and while he was anxioust, and still remains. The house is probably 120 years old. It was sold by the daughter of Dr. Cushing to Henry Timmins, who improved it, and it afterwards came into the possession of Mr. James Ellison. It was modelled after the house of Mr. Samuel Harrington, on South Street, who made the estimate for the lumber required so closely, that Dr. Cushing used to say that, there was not enough left to build his two bee hives. The Poor House of 1750 was a small house owned by Samuel Garfield, loc