Charles A. Nelson, A. M....

THIS sketch of Waltham has reached nearly double the number of pages originally intended, and yet many matters of interest have not even been mentioned. So rich is the supply of material that a volume Four times as large could easily have been filled with the valuable historical records that have been preserved since its incorporation, while further diligent and careful research would doubtless throw much light upon its settlement and growth during the Hundred years preceding. The Puritan visito

AS the shortest sketch of the life and labors of an individual is incomplete without some mention of his origin and ancestry; as the life of the child is intimately connected with that of the parent until the former arrives at his majority; so our account of the town of Waltham must be prefaced by some statements concerning its parent town, Watertown,— which, in the earliest days, embraced not only the territory included within the limits of the present town of that name, but also Waltham, Westo

ON December 14, 1737, William Browne, Deacon William Brown was much respected, and intrusted very often with Municipal and Church affairs of Watertown and Waltham.— Bond. Daniel Benjamin, Daniel Benjamin, Jr., trader, was a Selectman of Watertown 1735, '36, and '37; Selectman of Waltham, 1748, '39, '40, '42; Assessor many times from 1738 to 1752.— Bond. and Samuel Livermore, in the Behalf of themselves, and other Inhabitants of the West Precinct in Watertown, presented to the House of Representa