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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)
visions, they did order that the whole cargo should be bought for a general stock: And so accordingly it was, and distribution was made to every town, and to every person in each town, as every man had need. The limits of Watertown were for a long time quite undefined, and remained indefinite between it and Boston, on the one side, and Charlestown, on the other. The settlement of New Town and its rapid growth, however, soon raised questions as to the bounds of these two Towns, and on March 4, 1634-5, the Court appointed a Committee to determine the difference concerning all bounds of land between them. Bond makes the New Town [Cambridge] line run very near the homestall of Sir Richard Saltonstall, only one small lot intervening. The Committee agreed that the bounds between Watertown and Newtown shall stand as they are already from Charles River to the great Fresh Pond; and from the tree marked by Watertown and Newtown on the southeast side of the pond, over the pond to a white p