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October 19th (search for this): chapter 3
is State to ratify the same in ye Congress of the United States, that the same may become conclusive. September 28, 1778, Abner Sanderson, Elisha Cutler, Peter Warren, John Bright, and Jonas Child were chosen by the town a Committee to estimate the services of persons in the war either by bearing arms, or paying money to encourage others, and to apportion to the same by a tax upon the polls and estates of the town, and also to determine how men shall be raised for the war hereafter. October 19th following they reported that thirty men, then inhabitants of Waltham, with Colonel Jonathan Brewer He made a proposition to the Provincial Congress at Watertown to raise five hundred men for an expedition to Quebec. at their head, were in the eight months campaign, and were entitled to £ 3 12s. each. Nine two months men were sent to the Cambridge lines, and received 18s. each. Seven went to Canada, and in consideration of their travel and hardships, and the extravagant prices they ha
May 3rd, 1751 AD (search for this): chapter 3
years the same, with the addition September 8, 1740, of £ 10, In Consideration of the great Expense of his present jorney to Albany to visit his Sister. In 1741 his salary was raised to £ 200 with £ 20 for wood; in 1742 and 1743 to £ 220 and £ 25 for wood, and afterwards to £ 250, with £ 25 for wood. These sums were probably old tenor, as October 5, 1747, the salary granted was £ 100 new tenor, and £ 10 for wood. In 1749 £ 125, and in 1750 £ 66 13s. 4d. lawful money, were the grants. May 3, 1751, £ 20 was voted to pay for preaching during Mr. Williams's illness. He died June 22d, aged 52 years. The town voted £ 300 old tenor for the funeral expenses, and afterwards added £ 2 for grave stones to 8s. 6d. given by Mr. Bridge. Mr. Williams was succeeded by his son-in-law, the Rev. Jacob Cushing of Shrewsbury, who was ordained November 22, 1752. In 1765 the Waltham meeting-house was re-seated by a committee who didn't leave the choir together. Thereupon those persons th
January 9th, 1775 AD (search for this): chapter 3
Jonas Dix, Esq., Captain Abijah Brown, Leonard Williams, Esq., and Deacon Isaac Stearns were appointed a committee to draw up a vote in answer and report. September 30, 1774, Captain Abijah Brown, Leonard Williams, Esq., and Captain Jonathan Brewer were appointed a committee to draft instructions to their Representative respecting the several towns forming themselves into a Provincial Congress, and October 3d following Joshua Bigelow was chosen delegate to the Congress at Concord. January 9, 1775, The question was then put to know the minds of the town, whether they will all be prepared and stand ready equipt as minute men? And the town answered in the affirmative. How quickly the minute-men of the towns of Massachusetts responded to the call of their Committee of Safety, issued the day after the battle of Lexington, is too well known to be repeated here. Companies and individual volunteers rushed from every quarter to the seat of hostilities. Stiles, in his Mss. Diary, wr
1790 AD (search for this): chapter 3
upied by James Priest, a potter, who had his pottery in the west end. He died in 1790, and in 1798 it was taxed as the property of Abigail Priest and Joshua Child. Ier 24, 1812, as The Waltham Cotton and Wool Factory Company. Betwenn 1780 and 1790 John Boies first made use of the water power at the upper fall by erecting a papams baptized Peter, an infant negro belonging to Joseph and Margaret Priest. In 1790, there were 10 colored persons in the town; 6 in 1800, 5 in 1810. In 1753 onee and his son, Captain Luke Bemis, carried on the business. After his death, in 1790, his sons, Luke and Isaac, became full owners, and continued until the death of emis. While running the paper-mill on the Newton side, David Bemis, previous to 1790, built and carried on a grist-mill and snuff-mill on the Watertown side. The fiute the manufacture of woollen fabrics by both water and steam power. Between 1790 and 1796 the Messrs. Bemis constructed a bridge without a railing over the rive
January 13th, 1737 AD (search for this): chapter 3
the Mountains, over many rich and pregnant Vallies as ever eye beheld, beset on each side with variety of goodly Trees: So that had the most Skilful Gardner design'd a shady Walk in a fine Valley, it would have fallen short of that which Nature here had done without him. This description is understood to apply to the road through Waltham to Weston, and is nearly as applicable to-day as when written, when it is remembered that the pregnant Vallies have swallowed up the tall woods. January 13, 1737-8, Deacon William Brown, by virtue of the authority vested in him by the General Court, notified the Qualified Voters in sd. Town of Waltham to appear at the publick meeting house in sd. Town, on Wednesday the Eighteenth day of Janry. Currant, to elect and appoint town officers. The Freemen therefore assembled on the day appointed, and the following town officers were chosen:— Moderator.—Deacon Thomas Livermore. Selectmen.—Deacon William Brown, Deacon Thomas Livermore, Mr. Danie<
1789 AD (search for this): chapter 3
of Deacon Jonathan ye third, made an addition to his house a few years before his death on the east end, and upon a panel over the mantel in this east parlor J. W. Edes, supposed to be the same artist who drew the picture of Eden Vale, painted in 1789 a barnyard scene which still remains. This dwelling was recently remodeled by the late Rev. Thomas Worcester, and stands near his residence. A gable and window of the original Old Sanderson house are still retained in the modernized building, an and 30 years 18; 30 and 40 years 18; 40 and 50 years 17; 50 and 60 years 13; 60 and 70 years 13; 70 and 80 years 25; 80 and 90 years 22; 90 and 100 years 4; Total 244. By which it appears that 51 lived to 70 years and upwards. Mass. Mag. V. I. (1789) p. 63. In 1857 there were living in this State eleven brothers and sisters of the Wellington family, all born in Waltham, whose united ages amounted to 825 years. One other had died at the age of 75, and a thirteenth was drowned at 18. In
1800 AD (search for this): chapter 3
ess, it was for a long time the best settled part of the town. In 1800 there were but thirty-six dwelling houses on Main Street, twenty on Warham Cushing built the next house above for a workshop soon after 1800, which Elijah Brigham, the sexton, occupied for some years. These aet Priest. In 1790, there were 10 colored persons in the town; 6 in 1800, 5 in 1810. In 1753 one Prince Jonah, a slave of Abraham Bigelow ported from England, and had to be sent there to be repaired. About 1800 Jacob Mead, of Waltham, an ingenious inventor, contrived a machine fd profitable establishment. The company commenced building early in 1800, and the cotton factory was in operation the same year. It containsaltham in 1765 was 663, being but 30 less than that of Watertown; in 1800 Watertown had increased to 1,207, nearly 75 per cent, while Waltham opulations were 5,099 and 9,967, Watertown during the 75 years since 1800 increasing in population to four and a quarter times that with which
1799 AD (search for this): chapter 3
ellington's house, was a small one-and-a-half story house, with a shop at the east end, owned by Cornet David Townsend, and occupied in 1798 by Stephen Wellman. It had previously been occupied by Peter Edes with whom Eleazer Bradshaw boarded. In 1799 it was occupied by Abraham Fiske. The owner himself lived in it for a while, using the shop for a bakery. Next west was the dwelling erected by Cornet David Townsend; in its rear, and occupied by him previous to building the house, was a small bive grounds. On the east side of Pleasant Street was the parsonage of Warham Williams, probably erected soon after his settlement over the church in 1723. After his death his widow and son, Dr. Leonard Williams, occupied it. The latter died in 1799, and Mr. Lyman purchased the estate. The frame of the old house afterwards was used in the Maxwell House in Main Street, already mentioned. Rev. Dr. Cushing's parsonage was also on Pleasant Street, and still remains. The house is probably 120
1802 AD (search for this): chapter 3
stood in front of the tavern at the junction of the roads. The property was purchased by Cornet David Townsend, and the tavern was kept for many years by his son Colonel David Townsend. Colonel David Townsend was a Selectman 11 years, between 1802 and 1818, and Representative 10 years from 1809 to 1820. After passing through other hands it was taken down, and the land was bought by Rev. Samuel Ripley who built his house back of the old tavern stand and resided there till he removed to Conco, and for violating the law concerning baptism, and in 1661 his house was ordered to be searched for Quakers. Zzz. At the junction of Warren and Beaver Streets was the house of General Jonathan Coolidge, Selectman 1791-1807; Representative 1802 and 1804. still remaining; the west end of which was built by him, while the other is quite old. His father, Captain William Coolidge, bought it of his wife's uncle, Captain John Brown, who owned and occupied it for a few years. Captain Brown fil
July, 1873 AD (search for this): chapter 3
sition until his death, December 5, 1863, at the age of 55. He was at the time of his death the oldest settled clergyman in Waltham, having officiated here and in Watertown nearly 30 years. He began the erection of the present church in 1859. Rev. Bernard Flood succeeded him for thirteen years until his death, December 20, 1876. He commenced the enlargement and remodelling of the church in 1875, and it was rededicated in April, 1877. Rev. J. J. Murphy was appointed Assistant Pastor in July, 1873. Rev. T. Brosnahan, the present resident pastor was appointed December 28, 1876. The church has seating capacity for eighteen hundred persons, and the number of communicants is about five thousand. The Universalist Society of Waltham was gathered in the Bank Hall, and the first preaching held in the fall of 1836. The desk was supplied by the Rev. Thomas Whittemore and others till the following summer, when the society engaged the Rev. William C. Hanscom, from New Market, N. H., as the
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