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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)
d pass'd to be Engross'd on December 22d. On the last day of the month the engrossed Bill was passed to be enacted, and on the afternoon of January 4, 1737-8, This date being Old Style, the addition of 11 days gives January 15, 1738, as the date New Style of the incorporation of Waltham. His Excellency the Governour, J. Belcher, was pleased to give His Confent to the Enacting the Bill, and in the record the name Waltham of the new town is printed for the first time on this date. On January 3rd, it was Ordered, That Mr. William Browne, one of the principal Inhabitants of the new Town taken out of Watertown by this Court in their prefent fitting, be and hereby is fully authorized and impowred to assemble and convene the qualified Voters there in some suitable Place to elect and appoint a Town Clerk and other Town Officers there, to stand till the anniversary meeting of the said Town in March next. The act of incorporation reads as follows:— An Act for dividing the Town of