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It was a tantalizing handbill which Benjamin Edes printed on his press at Watertown. Tom Brandon, on picket at Charlestown Neck, hailed the Britisher a few rods distant. "How are you, redcoat?" "How are you, rebel?" "Say, redcoat, if you won't pop at me, I won't at you." "Agreed." "Wouldn't ye like a chaw of tobacco, redcoat?" "I wouldn't mind." "All right.
"That's the mill yonder, I think. We want to swing west a little now. Suppose they are at the house by now?" "Most likely. They had a good start. Shall we get your dad?" "Uhuh. And several others with guns. Better have old Bignold." Mr. Bignold was the only night policeman in Watertown. "There's the city limits, that switch-tower on the Belt Line. Hadn't we better come down a bit.
There is a tradition that some of the Watertown people passed this winter of 1634-35 at the place where Wethersfield now stands. In May, 1635, the Massachusetts General Court voted that liberty be granted to the people of Watertown and Roxbury to remove themselves to any place within the jurisdiction of Massachusetts.
Our towns now have an annual meeting for the same purpose, and elect generally three selectmen, who meet at stated times, sometimes as often as once a week. Watertown followed, about the same time, selecting three men "for the ordering of public affairs."
Diligent hunters and trappers, they accumulated fully a hundred dollars worth of otter, beaver, bear, deer, and other skins. But a trader came up from Watertown in the spring and got the whole lot in exchange for a four-gallon keg of whisky. That was a wild night that followed.
George Phillips, also a Cambridge man, came to New England in 1630, as pastor of the church at Watertown. He took no part in the migration, but lived and died at Watertown. Fate seems to have determined that Wendell Phillips should belong to Massachusetts. Roger Ludlow was Endicott's brother-in-law. He came to New England in 1630, and settled at Dorchester.
In the autumn of 1635, five years after the establishment of the Massachusetts colony at Salem, and fifteen years after the establishment of the Plymouth colony, a company of sixty persons, men, women, and children, left the towns of Dorchester, Roxbury, Watertown, and Cambridge, and commenced a journey through the pathless wilderness in search of their future home.
Samuel F. Jarvis, Rector of Trinity Church, Brooklyn, and the Rev. James Stoddard, Rector of Christ Church, Watertown. What do these feeble Jews? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they make an end in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?
This Lawrence settled in Watertown, and was one of the original proprietors of the town of Groton, which was founded in 1655.
She was greatly excited, and exclaimed, as she laid down the book, "Why cannot I write a novel?" She remained in Norridgewock and vicinity for several years, and on her return to Massachusetts took up her abode with her brother at Watertown.
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