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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)
ade an irruption into the water. In February 1631-2, a political altercation took its rise at Watertown, which has been so far-reaching and important in its results, as to merit full notice. On the 3d of that month the Court of Assistants ordered that £ 60 be levied out of the several plantations towards the making of a palisade Palisades were constructed of cleft wood stakes eight feet long driven into the ground. about the Newtown, to carry out the resolucon to which they grew December 28, 1630, that a fortifyed Toune might there grow vpp. The proportion of the levy allotted to Watertown was £ 8; upon receipt of the warrant for which the pastor [Mr. Phillips] and elder [Mr. Richard Browne], &c., assembled the people and delivered their opinions, that it was not safe to pay moneys after that sort, for fear of bringing themselves and posterity into bondage. This resistance to the order of the Court resulted in their being summoned, the pastor and elder by letter, and the oth