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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)
ransportation of theirs goods by land, for want of navigable channells in those rivers. Charles River...runnes up twenty or thirty miles into the country, yet not navigable above foure or five, which makes it less serviceable to the inhabitants seated up higher on the bankes thereof—Hubbord, p. 17. of fresh waters which conveigh themselves into the Ocean through Charles River; a little below the fall of which they have a weir to catch fish, wherein they take store of Basse, Shades, Alwives, Frost fish and Smelts; in two tides they have gotten one hundred thousand of these fish. At a town meeting held January 3, 1634-5, it was agreed [by the freemen] that there shall be foure rods in breadth on each side of the River, and in length as far as need shall require laied to the use of the Ware, so that it may not be preiudicial to the water-mill. Also one Hundred and fifty Acres of Ground granted to the Ware upon the other side of the River, to be laied out in a convenient place. Th