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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)
south of the Charles. The former grant of the New England coast to the Earl of Warwick and others, six years before, was by them resigned to this company. Mr. Matthew Cradock, a prudent and wealthy citizen of London, was the first governor chosen by the company, and sworn in chancery March 23, 1628-9, Mr. Thomas Goffe being chosetham Plain, in which Mount Feake was included, which was long known as the Oldham Farm. After his death the General Court ordered the land to be laid out for Matthew Cradock, of London, to whom Oldham was indebted. This farm then passed into the hands successively of Simon Bradstul, of Ipswich, Thomas Mayhew, of Watertown, and R being then 41 or 42 years old. He established himself in Martha's Vineyard in 1644. Palfrey. During his residence in Watertown he purchased the Old Mill of Governor Cradock, was granted the 150 acres belonging to the mill, [See p. 21], owned shares in the wear, and was at one time proprietor of the Oldham Farm. He represented W
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., Index. (search)
ll, first in the town, 92. Cotton warp, demand for machine made, 125. Council for New England grant lands to the new Dorchester Company, 9. Council of seven persons with two of the planters to act with Endicott, 10. Counties of Middlesex, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk formed 58. Court at South-Hampton aboard the Arbella, 12; of Assistants, 18-22, 25, 28-29. Covenant, signing of constitutes the organization of a church, 22. Cowes, Winthrop's fleet riding at the, 12. Cradock, Matthew, first Governor of the new Dorchester Company, 10; owner of Oldham Farm, 38. Crayons, colored and white, 141. Cross, the red, a superstitious thing, 25. Cuff, Felix, and other negroes hide in the Devil's Den, 105; pay for his services in the war, 105 n. 2. Currency, Continental, 77, 105. Curtains at two meeting-house windows, 98. Cushing, Rev., Jacob, ordained, 74; death of, 77: character and influence, 78; his papers sold to Peter Force of Washington, 111 n. 2. Cushi