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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)
st hundred years after its settlement. In 1778 David Bemis, who had purchased 39 acres of land on the Watertlueless. was erected on the Newton side, of which David Bemis owned two-thirds, where he and his son, Captain L While running the paper-mill on the Newton side, David Bemis, previous to 1790, built and carried on a grist-mous to the establishment of the Waltham Factories, Mr. Bemis was somewhat extensively engaged in manufacturing er the interruption of commerce by the war of 1812 Mr. Bemis had to transport his manufactured goods by his own In 1831 the price of duck was 35 cents per yard. Mr. Bemis discontinued the manufacture of duck in 1816, resuerable Seth Davis, now of West Newton, erected for Mr. Bemis a small brick building at the east end of the old for the purpose of lighting. The use of gas by Mr. Bemis was discontinued after two years, only because theg-house, that its longer use was objectionable. Mr. Bemis carried on the cotton and wool business from 1816