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27; assumes command of the Continental Army, 49, 50; his last tour through New England, 50; reception on the Common, 50; worships in the First Parish meeting-house, 23S.
Watchhouse Hill, second meeting-house built on, 236.
Water Board, 118, 403.
Water front, 4, 30.
Water rates to manufacturers, 318.
Water supply, 316 .
Watertown, inconvenient situation of, 1; trail from, to Charlestown, 3; refuses to be taxed for the New Town palisade, 5; portion of, annexed to Cambridge, 9, 15.
Water-Works, Cambridge, chartered, 113; authorized to take the water of Fresh Pond, 113; buys out the Aqueduct Company, 113; becomes the property of the city; sources of supply, 113, 114; Stony Brook and its tributaries, 114; storage basins, 114; distributing reservoir at Payson Park, 114; objections to municipal control, 114; its financial standing, 115; a help to the poor, 115; street improvements by, 116, 117; surroundings of Fresh Pond, 117.
Weights and Measures, Sealer of, 405.
West Boston Bridge, 29, 495.
West Cambridge, 9, 16.
West Dock Canal, 30.
‘West End,’ 3.
Western Avenue Bridge, 29.
‘West Field,’ 4.
Wethersfield, Conn., founded, 6.
Whalley, the regicide, 11.
Wharton, Francis, 68.
White, Daniel, Charity, 277, 320.
Whitefield, George, preaches on the Common, 13, 48; a friend to the college, 236.
Whitefield tree, 48.
Willard, Emery, the village strong man, 40.
William H. Smart Post 30, 288.
Williams, Rev. Mr., 73.
Willson, Forceythe, 68.
Wilson, John, Sr., 334.
Wilson, Rev. John, election speech of, 7, 48.
Windmill Hill, 3.
Windsor, Conn., founded, 6.
Winlock, Professor, 75.
Winship, Mrs. Joanna, tomb of, 189.
Winthrop, John, 1, 2, 7, 47.
Winthrop, Prof. John, 72, 73.
Winthrop Square, 5.
Wires, Inspectors of, and Superintendent of Lamps, 404.
Witchcraft, 11, 12.
Wollaston, Mount, Thomas Hooker's company settle at, 6, 233.
Wolves, bounties for, 9.
Worcester becomes a city, 54.
Worcester, Joseph E., lexicographer, 68.
Worthington Street, 116.
Wright, Elizur, description of London parks, 119.
Wyman, Prof. Jeffries, 73, 75.
Young Men's Christian Association, 242; property exempt from taxation, 320.
Young Women's Christian Association, 242.
Cambridge, 1896.
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