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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. 1 1 Browse Search
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of all living upon the town plot. The land in the Great Dividends was allotted to the Freemen and to all the Townsmen then inhabiting, being 120 in number, July 25, 1636. In September the Beaver Brook Plowlands were allotted to 106 Townsmen. These two grants appear to have covered the bulk of the land enclosed in the present limits of Waltham. By the later grants of the Remote Meadows, June 26, 1637, the Lieu of Township Lots (beyond the Further Plain), July 17, 1638, and The Farms, October 14, 1638, the territory, now Weston, was distributed. The Westward growth of the town, particularly the taking up of the farm lands (in Weston), removed the farmers so far from the meeting-house that it was inconvenient for them to attend service there, and a considerable number of them united with the Church in Sudbury, which was much nearer to them. In 1692, a town meeting was held to decide upon a site for a new meeting-house; but the Freemen were too much divided in sentiment to come to