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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)
, a small ship of sixty tons, called the Plough, came into Nantasket with ten passengers from London, having a patent to Sagadahock; afterwards called the Ligonia or Plough Patent. Not liking the place, they came to Boston and went up to Watertown, a plantation for husbandmen principally, but as their vessel drew ten feet, she ran aground twice by the way and they laid her bones there. This company was called the Hus- bandmen; they were Familists, This sect was established in Holland, in 1555 by Henry Nichols, a Westphalian. who believed that the essence of religion consisted in Divine love, and were popularly considered a sort of free-love sect of that day; these soon after vanished away, and came to nothing. The next year the court ordered their goods to be inventoried by the beadle, and to be preserved for the use and benefit of the company in London which sent them out. July 2, 1632, at the regular training at Watertown, the first recorded accident in the town from the car