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1860 AD (search for this): chapter 2
ears were in danger of being purchased by Indians, the Town voted to purchase them, and they were then annually rented at the highest price that could be obtained. They were the subject of many altercations and law suits. Of late, says Bond (in 1860), the profits of the Fishery have been divided between the towns of Watertown and Brighton, seven-tenths to the former and three-tenths to the latter. Owing to the impurities discharged into the river from the gas works, dye houses, and other factories, the fish finally stopped coming up the river, and the last three amounts reported by the Town Treasurer of Watertown as income received from the Fishery are:—for 1856, $161; for 1858, $74.25, and for 1860, $35. Since which time the wears do not appear to have been used. On account of the much sickness and mortality that prevailed at Charlestown upon the arrival of Winthrop and his people, owing to the bad water there, and their being destitute of housing and shelter, and lying up and
August (search for this): chapter 2
t at the annual Court held May 6, 1635, there is liberty granted to the inhabitants of Watertown, and Roxbury also, to remove themselves to any place they shall think meet to make choice of, provided they continue still under this government. In August Governor Bradford wrote to Winthrop, complaining that men from Dorchester had set down at Connecticut near the Plymouth trading house there, interfering with their rights purchased from the Indians; and Winthrop says the Dutch sent home to HollanGorges. Palfrey. He was admitted freeman May, 18, 1631; he must have removed to Watertown soon after its settlement, as May 8, 1632, he was one of the two persons chosen to confer about a public stock; he had a house near the Wear burnt in August of the same year; and on April 1, 1634, the Court granted him a farm of 500 acres between Stony Brook and Waltham Plain, in which Mount Feake was included, which was long known as the Oldham Farm. After his death the General Court ordered the la
May (search for this): chapter 2
embarkation of eighty women and maids, twenty-fix children, and three hundred men, People professing themselves of good ranke, zeale, meanes and quality. with victuals, arms, and tools, and necessary apparel, and one hundred and forty head of cattle and forty goats. Francis Higginson and Samuel Skelton were the two most prominent and influential of the godly ministers provided by a committee of the company for this band of colonists. Three of the vessels set sail in the early part of May, and arrived at Salem in June, the rest of the fleet soon following. Of their arrival Higginson wrote: When we came first to Neihum-kek, Naumkeag. we found about halfe a score Houses, and a faire House newly built for the Gouernour, we found also abundance of Corne planted by them, verie good and well likeing. And we brought with us about two hundred Passengers and Planters more, which by common consent of the old Planters were all combined together into one Body politicke, under the sam
1697 AD (search for this): chapter 2
on, 1699, fixed it at Stony Brook. and the Western, or Farmers' Precinct, embracing the rest of the town. In January, 1693-4, the men of the Farmers' Precinct agreed to build for themselves a meeting-house, in consideration of which the town, in 1697, exempted them from ministerial rates. January 1, 1712-13, the Western, or Farmers' Precinct, was incorporated as the town of Weston. After the incorporation of Weston the old Middle Precinct (Waltham) became the Western Precinct. May 13, 1715, tham was incorporated a portion of his parish reverted to the old Eastern First parish, as no longer belonging to his society. The Rev. Mr. Angier kept the records of his Church in a little 16mo. Mss. volume with brass clasps, bearing date of 1697. His first entry is as follows:—June 20, 1697. I first baptized in the new meeting-house in Watertown, namely, Jonathan, the son of Jonathan Philips, and Sarah, the daughter of Joseph Whitney, whose wives are in full communion. The last entry i
1699 AD (search for this): chapter 2
paid from the public treasury. All the efforts to adjust the differences seemed but to confirm both parties in their own views. Meantime the town was divided into Precincts, the Eastern, Middle, and Western; the first extending from the Cambridge line to Common Street, in Watertown, the Middle from this line to Stony Brook; Beaver Brook was made the Eastern boundary of the Farmers' Precinct at an irregular town meeting held October 2, 1694, but the General Court, at their May session, 1699, fixed it at Stony Brook. and the Western, or Farmers' Precinct, embracing the rest of the town. In January, 1693-4, the men of the Farmers' Precinct agreed to build for themselves a meeting-house, in consideration of which the town, in 1697, exempted them from ministerial rates. January 1, 1712-13, the Western, or Farmers' Precinct, was incorporated as the town of Weston. After the incorporation of Weston the old Middle Precinct (Waltham) became the Western Precinct. May 13, 1715, twenty
July (search for this): chapter 2
So stated in Josselyn's Chronological Observations. But in his Two Voyages [1663] he has the following: The Twelfth of July, Anno Dom. 1630, John Wenthorp, Esq.; and the assistants, arrived with the Patent for the Massachusets. The passage of th the 12th of June the Arbella arrived at Salem, the Jewell on the 13th, and several other vessels during the first week in July. On the 8th of July Winthrop records in his journal: We kept a day of thanksgiving in all the plantations, all the whole those two towns. And there vppon unshipped our goods into other vessels and with much cost and labour brought them in July to Charles Towne; but there receiving advertisements by some of the late arrived shipps from London and Amsterdam of some compel them to watch near Newtown, and desired the Governor that they might have the ordering within their own town. In July Winthrop records this curious incident:—At Watertown there was (in view of divers witnesses) a great combat between a mouf
1703 AD (search for this): chapter 2
orporation of the town. Rev. Samuel Angier officiated in his meeting house nearly twentytwo years. He died January 21, 1718-19, and was buried in the old Waltham burying ground, just below Beaver Brook, on Main Street, which was established in 1703 for the use of his parish His meeting-house and residence were both east of the Waltham line, and when Waltham was incorporated a portion of his parish reverted to the old Eastern First parish, as no longer belonging to his society. The Rev. Mv. John Williams, of Deerfield, Mass, and in his childhood was, with the rest of his father's family, in captivity among the Indians, in Canada, for two or three years. They were carried away by the Indians at the time of the Deerfield Massacre in 1703. He afterwards wrote the account of that affair called Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion. a graduate of Harvard College, in 1719, was ordained June 11, 1723, as successor of Mr. Angier, and pastor of the first Church that had its meeting-house w
1815 AD (search for this): chapter 2
ient 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 nearly one mile in circumference, and abounding in fish. and extensive bog, called Beaver Meadow, probably the locality of the pond observed by Winthrop, caused by the beaver dams long since destroyed; it afterwards passes through and adds greas put upon the second syllable, instead of on the first. to the middle portion of the ancient Beaver Brook, and a Railroad station has now that name. Masters' Brook, which Winthrop states was greater than the former, is described by a writer in 1815, as known by that name to the oldest inhabitants then consulted by him. It is one mile and a half west of Beaver Brook, and nearly a mile this side of Stony Brook. At present, he says, this brook can hardly be recognized by this description, on a
1693 AD (search for this): chapter 2
, with houseroom and firing. The labors of the Baileys were comparatively of short duration. Thomas died January 21, 1688-9, aged 35 years; the wife of his brother in April, 1690. They were both buried in the Old Burying Ground, where two horizontal slabs bear quaint epitaphs to their memory. The health of John was feeble, and these bereavements so wore upon him that he was unable to perform his duties. Then, being very melancholy and having the gout, he moved to Boston about the year 1693, where he died December 12, 1697. The earliest book of Church records in the town was kept by him, beginning in 1686, and ending in 1692, during which time he records 39 marriages, 361 baptisms, and 117 persons admitted to the Church. In connection with the installation of Rev. John Bailey an accident happened which resulted in the death of the oldest surviving officer of the Church, Deacon Henry Bright, Junior, at the age of 84 years. Judge Sewall, in his Diary, records his death as foll
1628 AD (search for this): chapter 2
ow called Salem; and the rest have Planted themselves at Masathulets The name Massachusetts Bay was at first only applied to the waters of Boston Bay or Harbor, lying between Nahant and Point Allerton, and Massachusetts included only the country lying around this inner bay. Bay, beginning to build a Towne there which we doe call Cherton, or Charles Towne. On the neck of land called Mishawum, between Mistick and Charles Rivers, full of Indians, named Aberginians.—Prince's Annals, Sept. 13, 1628. We that are Settled at Salem make what hast we can to build Houses, so that within a short time we shall have a faire Towne. On July 20th, a day set apart for fasting and prayer, Higginson and Skelton were respectively chosen teacher and pastor, and both were ordained with simple solemnity, and on August 6th thirty persons assented to a Confession of Faith and Church Covenant according to Scripture, drawn up by Mr. Higginson, of which each of the thirty received a copy. Governor Bradford
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