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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. 22 0 Browse Search
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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)
er coming out of Sherman's In early records known as the Great Pond in the Woods, afterwards as Sherman's, Fiske's, and Mead's Pond. Its area is supposed to be about 100 acres. Bond. Pond, more than two miles from the river, is the ancient Chester Brook; at Pond End, near the present New Church School, it provides power for a small machine-shop; Formerly a grist mill. about half a mile west of the site of the old Waltham Meeting house, it flows through a pond Described in 1815 as nearllace, formerly known as the Livermore Farm, where, by a small dam, it is expanded in front of the mansion into a beautiful stream. A little south of Beaver Meadow is Lily Pond, a small sheet of water having its outlet through the meadow into Chester Brook. The name Chester was probably given very soon after Governor Winthrop's visit, as Mr. Leonard Chester arrived in 1633 and left Watertown in 1636. Some modern improvers, says Bond, have given the name Clematis Doubtless with the same desir
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)
t passed to his son Moses, who had a shop located at a small water power on Chester Brook, where he manufactured rolling-pins, mortars and pestles, rakes and hoe haniam Paine, and given to son Nathaniel. The Inventory also covers 1 acre at Chester Brook. of land in the First Great Dividend granted to William Paine, and bought o Allen Flagg and his brothers John and Michael settled here about 1684, on Chester Brook, and the Sandersons about 1689. Joshua Bigelow had settled on or near ChesChester Brook in 1676. Several of the deacons in Mr. Angier's church lived in this section. Jonathan Sanderson His grandson, Abner Sanderson, was Assessor 25 years, a grist-mill on the site of the present machine-shop of George F. Shedd on Chester Brook which, perhaps, had previously belonged to Deacon Thomas Livermore. Dean, and within a stone's throw of the site of the old Clarke's grist-mill on Chester Brook, stands the handsome brick building of the New-Church School, erected in 18
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., Index. (search)
4, 62; first settled by a small party from Salem, 10; under orders, 38; plantation at, 11, 15. Cherton, or Charlestown, built, 11. Chester, Leonard, 27. Chester Brook, the western branch of Beaver Brook, 27; origin of the name, 27; Clarke's grist-mill on, 97; Shedd's machine-shop, 97. Child carried under the mill wheel, 1he western fever at Dorchester, 36. Lyford, John, welcomed at Plymouth, 37; his complaining letters intercepted, 37; plays the penitent, 37. Lyman place, Chester Brook flows through, 27, 95-6. Lyman, Theodore, estate of, 95-6. Lynn, 2, 41 n. 2. McCauley, Rev. C., pastor of First Parish, 117. Machinery at Waltham rebuilt, 133. Machines, six new invented, 130. Machine-shop on Chester Brook, 27, 97. Mackerel Hill, 79. Macomber, Zebedee, 90. Main street a great thoroughfare, 91. Manufacturing establishments, number of, 141. Martha's Vineyard settled, 46. Mary and John (the), Ludlow's ship arrives at Nantasket, 13. Mason