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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)
after their settlement, with Watertown a mile and a half distant on the one side, and Charlestown two miles on the other, were so straitened for want of land, especially medow, that they desired leave of the Court to look out for enlargement or removal, which being granted, they sent men to see Agawam and Merrimack, and gave out they would remove. A little later six men sailed in Governor Winthrop's bark, the Blessing of the Bay, the first vessel built in the colony, launched at Mistick, July 4, 1631, to discover Connecticut River, intending to remove the town thither. At the Court held, in September, 1634, after a long discussion during a week's session, the Newtown people finally accepted the offer of the ground about Muddy River Now Brookline. from Boston, and the meadow on this side Watertown wear, from Watertown, and gave up the plan of removal at that time. The next year the Court confirmed these grants on condition that if Mr. Hooker and his congregation should remove, th