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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. 3 1 Browse Search
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s went overland to the Connecticut, lodging at Indian towns on their way, and brought back some beaver and hemp, which grows there in great abundance, and is much better than the English, and some black lead, whereof the Indians told him there was a whole rock. The Blessing of the Bay had been sent southward to trade, visited Long Island, the mouth of the Connecticut River, and the Dutch plantation on Hudson's River, called New Netherlands, where they had showed the Governour (called Gwalter Van Twilly) their comission, which was to fignify to them, that the King of England had granted the river and country of Connecticut to his own subjects; and therefore desired them to forbear to build there. Probably to give this warning was the main object of the Blessing's voyage. From the reports of these visits, and the intelligence that came from time to time of the great fertility of the since famed Connecticut Valley, arose the desire of many of the Colonists to remove thither. We
under Jay's treaty, 82. Turbine wheels introduced, 133. Turner, Capt., Nathaniel, 41. Twisting machine built for Seth Bemis, 125. Uncas, a Mohegan chief, joins Capt. Mason, 43. Underhill, Capt., John, 41, 43, 44 n. 2. Union League of Waltham, 110. United Colonies, support pledged to the, 101. Universalist Society, 121; Church on Lyman street, 122; list of pastors, 122. Upham: Nathan, 88; and Amos built papermill at Stony Brook, 93. Valuation of the town, 98-9. Van Twilly, Gwalter, warned not to build at the Connecticut, 36. Vessels, number that came over before 1630, 12. Village of Waltham in 1798, 86. Virginia, appeal from for ministers, 46. Wachusett Hill, lands at granted to Watertown, 20, 142. Wadsworth, Capt. Samuel of Milton, at Lancaster, 61; ambushed at Sudbury, 62. Wages, excessive, 31. Wahginnacut visits Winthrop, 35. Wales, Elkanah, bill of, 107. Walker, Theophilus W., 48. Walford, Thomas, first white settler at Misha