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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 2: (search)
eculiar exposures and straightened circumstances of our forefathers, it may then be very easy, judging them by our rules, to impugn their motives, criticize their plans, ridicule their errors, and magnify their faults; but we think it would show our wisdom and magnanimity much better if we should do for posterity, in our situations, as much as they did for it in theirs. To illustrate the peril supposed to exist in the early settlement, we copy the following order of the General Court. Sept. 3, 1635: It is agreed, that hereafter no dwelling-house shall be built above half a mile from the meeting-house, in any new plantation, without leave from the Court. Our Medford ancestors kept a jealous eye upon new comers, and enforced the following order, passed Sept. 6, 1638: Ordered, That constables shall inform of new comers, if any be admitted without license. That the Company in London had fixed firmly one point, the following extract from their second letter, May 28, 1629, will suf
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 10: trade. (search)
me by the Talbot or Lion's Whelpe. At the same time they send a seine, being a net to fish with. May 28, 1629, they say,-- We send salt, lines, hooks, knives, boots, &c., for the fishermen, desiring our men may be employed in harbor, or upon the Bank. If you send ships to fish on the Bank, and expect them not to return again to the plantation, &c. By this it appears that those vessels which had caught a cargo of fish on the Bank were expected to take them thence to London. Sept. 3, 1635, the General Court chose a committee of six for setting forward and managing a fishing trade. That fishing was profitable, we have the following early record: Thirty-five ships sailed this year (1622) from the west of England, and two from London, to fish on the New England coasts; and made profitable voyages. Through the instrumentality of our fishing interest, the General Court passed the following order. May 22, 1639: For further encouragement of men to set upon fishing, it is orde
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 4: civil History. (search)
n; and so the fear of their removal to Connecticut was removed. Savage's Winthrop, i. 140-142. This enlargement, however, was not permanently satisfactory. The inhabitants of New Town again manifested the strong bent of their spirits to remove. It does not appear when they received permission of the General Court. Perhaps the liberty granted in general terms, May 14, 1634, was held to be sufficient. It seems certain that a considerable number of them went to Connecticut before Sept. 3, 1635; for on that day William Westwood, a New Town man, was sworn Constable of the plantations at Connecticut till some other be chosen. Mass. Col. Rec., i. 159. But the general exodus was several months later. Under date of May 31, 1636, Winthrop says: Mr. Hooker, pastor of the church of New Town, and the most of his congregation, went to Connecticut. His wife was carried in a horse-litter; and they drove one hundred and sixty cattle, and fed of their milk by the way. Savage's Winthrop
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)
the country north-west-by-west, upon a straight line by a meridian compass; and further, that Watertown shall have one hundred rods in length above the weare, and one hundred rods beneath the weare in length, and threescore rods in breadth from the river on the south side thereof, and all the rest of the ground on that side the river to lye to Newtown; westerly the Town extended eight miles into the country from their meeting-house. Later, after the settlement of Concord and Dedham, September 3, 1635, upon the north-west and south-west of Watertown, another conflict of bounds ensued, and the Court, on the 8th of June, 1638, ordered for the final end of all difference between the three towns that Watertown eight miles shall be extended upon the line between them [W.] and Cambridge, so far as Concord bounds give leave, and by the river eight miles into the country, and so to take in all the land of that [north] side of the river, which will not fall into the square five miles granted