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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)
635, they agreed that Two Hundred Acres of upland nere to the Mill shall be referved as most convenient to make a Towneship. This reservation was probably in the western part of Watertown, three miles from the first settlement, and more than two miles from the new meetinghouse and the burying-ground. August 14th a committee was named to lay out all the Highwaies, & to fee that they be sufficiently repaired. The spirit of this order has been so well observed, even to the present day, that Waltham roads are held to be the model roads of the Commonwealth. In 1637 an order was passed, that there shalbe 8 days appointed for every year, for the repairing of the Highwaies, and every man that is a Souldier or Watchman to come at his appointed time with a wheelbarrow, mattock, spade, or shovel, & for default here of, to pay for every day 5s. to the towne, and a cart for every day to pay 19s. The same month a fine of 20s. was voted a penalty for every tree cut down upon the common withou
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)
ts, it manisested miraculous powers. It is said to have cured Harold, son of Earl Godwin, of the palsy, whereupon he rebuilt the church, increased the number of canons to twelve, settled on them ample estates, and provided for the establishment of a school of learning at Waltham. Dugdale'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 Harold was killed at the battle of Hastings, and interred in Waltham Abbey, where for a long period a tomb said to be his was pointed out. There was, however, a tradition that he escaped alive from the battle, an