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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)
e N. W. the high hills by Merrimack, above sixty miles off. Some explanations are needed to make this pleasant description clear at the present time. Beaver Brook is a large and valuable stream, and empties into Charles River at the lower end of Waltham Plain, crossing the Great road in its course. It has two branches, eastern and western, which unite about half a mile from the river. The former and larger branch, always called Beaver Brook in the early deeds and surveys, rises in East Lexington, passes through a corner of Belmont, and divides it from Waltham nearly to the Watertown line, then flows south-west until it is joined by the western branch. The latter coming out of Sherman's In early records known as the Great Pond in the Woods, afterwards as Sherman's, Fiske's, and Mead's Pond. Its area is supposed to be about 100 acres. Bond. Pond, more than two miles from the river, is the ancient Chester Brook; at Pond End, near the present New Church School, it provides power
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)
of Lincoln, 14-16; 24. Dummer, Jeremie, goldsmith, of Boston, 39. Dummer, Richard, owner of Oldham Farm, 39. Dunton, John, his ramble to Natick, 69. Dutch: fort on the Connecticut, 35; plantation on Hudson's River called New Netherlands, 35; vessel driven off by J. Winthrop, Jr., 39. Dutch (the) send home for authority to deal with the settlers on the Connecticut, 36. Dwelling-houses on Main St. in 1800, 82. Easterbrook, Rev. Mr., at ordination of Mr. Angier, 54. East Lexington, 27. Eaton, Nathaniel, first principal of Harvard College, 58 n. 1. Eden Vale in Waltham, 92. Edes, J. W., artist, 98. Edgarton settled, 46. Edward the Confessor, 67. Edye (or Eddie), John, insanity of, 32; chosen one of the first three selectmen, 34. Elections, how conducted, 34. Eliot, John, begins missionary labors, 60; antedated by those of Thomas Mayhew, Jr., at Martha's Vineyard, 47 n. 1; birth-place, 66. Eliot, John, fish story told by, 28. Ellison, J