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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. 2 0 Browse Search
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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)
ertown there was (in view of divers witnesses) a great combat between a moufe and a snake; and after a long fight the mouse prevailed and killed the snake. The pastor of Boston, Mr. Wilson, a very sincere, holy man, hearing of it, gave this interpretation: That the snake was the devil; the mouse was a poor, contemptible people, which God had brought hither, which should overcome Satan here and difpoffefs him of his kingdom. The first reported case of insanity in the town is that of one John Edye, a godly man of the congregation, who in March, 1633, fell distracted, and, getting out one evening, could not be found, but eight days after he came again of himself. He had kept his strength and colour, yet had eaten nothing. He recovered, lived orderly, but was now and then a little distempered. The harvest in 1632 was scanty on account of the cold and wet weather which prevailed during the summer; and again, in 1633, there was great scarcity of corn, by reason of the spoil our ho