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Waltham, Past and Present, and Its Industries
Waltham Past and Present and Its Industries Author:Charles Alexander Nelson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1882 Subjects: Fiction / Classics Literary Collections / General Literary Collections / American / General Literary Collections / Essays Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / American / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish,... more » Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: January 15, 1738. it'MjN December 14, 1737, "William Browne,1 Daniel Benjamin,1 and Samuel Livermore, in the Behalf of themfelves, and other Inhabitants of the Weft Precinct in Watertown," presented to the House of Representatives a petition "praying the faid Precinct may be erected into a feparate and disftinct Town- fliip, which is alfo agreeable to the Eaft Precinct in said Town, as appears by their Vote accompanying the Petition." The prayer of the petition was granted and the petitioners "allowed and impowred to prepare and bring in a Bill" of incorporation. The Bill passed its first reading December 2oth, its second reading December list, and was " read a third Time and paff'd to be Engroff'd " on December 22d. On the last day of the month the engrossed Bill was passed to be enacted, and on the afternoon of January 4, I7378, s "His Excellency the Governour," J. Belcher, "was pleased to give His Confent to the Enacting" the Bill, and in the record the name Waltham of the new town is printed for the first time on this date. On January 3rd, it was "Ordered, That Mr. William Browne, one of the principal Inhabitants of the new Town taken out of Water- town by this Court in their prefent fitting, be and hereby is fully authorized and impowred to affemble and convene the qualified Voters there in feme fuitable Place to elect and appoin...« less