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.

[94] a house upon it. On Beaver Street, near the Watertown line, is the house occupied by Captain Samuel Barnes in 1798. His father-in-law, Phinehas Warren, father of Peter, occupied the place before him, and he was probably preceded by his father Joshua, grandson of John Warren, who came to Watertown in 1630, and with Abraham Browne was appointed to lay out all the highways. March 14, 1658-59, he was warned for not attending public worship; but ‘Old Warren is not to be found in town.’ He was also fined for not attending public worship, and for violating the law concerning baptism, and in 1661 his house was ordered to be searched for Quakers.

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At the junction of Warren and Beaver Streets was the house of General Jonathan Coolidge,¹ still remaining; the west end of which was built by him, while the other is quite old. His father, Captain William Coolidge, bought it of his wife's uncle, Captain John Brown, who owned and occupied it for a few years. Captain Brown fills a prominent place in the early history of the town.

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He was an innholder in 1737, and had ‘the reputation of being a man of more than common energy and enterprise.’ He held many offices and positions of trust; was Selectman 1744-48 and 1752, and Representative in 1748. In 1759 his assessment was the largest except one in Waltham. In 1760 he with several others, directors and partners in the Land Bank Company, petitioned the General Court ‘for a lottery, to relieve themselves from the disastrous results of that celebrated association, which was established 30 years before, under the delusive expectation of furnishing the people a “better currency” than gold and silver, which had become very scarce.’ He died in Weston in 1784 at the age of 80, quite poor; ‘the few hundred pounds realized in ’