History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts - citizen hylbom blog

440 HISTORY OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY.
said person at tlieir own cliarges or to see tlie town
harmless."
Wethersfield, the oldest town in Connecticut,
received from Watertown its first considerable
emigration in 1634. Pyqnag, its Indian name,
was changed in 1635 to Watertowii, and later to
Wethersfield. Some of this colony were afterwards
among the first settlers of Stamford, Milford, and
Brantbrd. May 29, 1635, the following Watertown
men .went to Wethersfield : Rev. Richard
Denton, Robert Reynolds, John Strickland, Jonas
Weede, Rev. John Sherman, Robert Coe, and Andrew
Ward. The two latter afterwards settled in
Stamford. Leonard Chester, John Finch, Nathaniel
Foote, John Oldham, Edward Pierre, John
Reynolds, and Robert Rose went before 1 612.
In 1636 Dedham was largely settled from Wa-
tertown, and in the same year some of her peo])le
were among the settlers of Concord. Sudbury was
the next town planted by Watertown, the court, in
November, 1637, "in regard of their straitness of
accommodation and want of meadow," giving them
leave upon their petition " to remove and settle a
plantation upon the river which runs to Concord."
Martha's Vineyard was first planted by a Water-
town colony led by Thomas Mayhew in 1642,
and her sons were the pioneers in the settlement
of Ijancaster, Groton, Framingham, Shrewsbury,
Worcester, Rutland, and Spencer, as also of many
of (he towns in southern and eastern Connecticut,
and on Long Island. Emigrants from Watertown
are found among the early settlers of nearly all of
the towns in Middlesex County.
The earliest list of the iidiabitants of Watertown
is dated July 25, 1C36. It is "a grant of the
Great Dividends [allotted] to the freemen [and]
to all the townsmen then inhabiting, being 120 in
number."
Sir R. Saltoiistall, 100 (acres); Robert Fcake,
John Loveran, Thomas Mayhew, George Philliijs,
each 80 ; William Paine, Brian Pendleton, Simon
Stone, Edward How, Abraham Shaw, each 70;
William Jennison, Simon Eire, Leonard Chester,
John Warren, John Barnard, Henry Goldstone,
John Cutting, Edward Golle, Ephraim Child, Samuel
(Wm.) Swayne, John Firmin, each (iO ; John
Page, Joiin Eddy, Isaac Sterne, Riehard Kind)all,
Thomas Cakebrcad, Edmund Sherman, .lohii Way-
ward, Abraham Browne, llichanl limwiii-, .lnhn
Wliitney, each 50; Wdliani Hammond, Kdniund
James, Gregory Stone, John Kingsbury, John
Eaton, William Swift, each 40 ; Isaac Cummins,
Robert Abbot, Thomas Philbrick, Barnabas Winds,
John Gosse, John Smith, Sr., Robert Daniel,
Charles Chadwiek, Samuel Hosier, Robert Lockwood,
John Batchelor, William Bridges, Gregory
Taylor, John Gay, Henry Kimball, Nathaniel
Bowman, John Spring, Richard Woodward, each
35 ; John Finch, William Palmer, Philip Taber,
John Doggett, John Lawrence, Francis Onge,
Henry Bright, Hugh Mason, John Coolidge, Isaac
Mixer, John Stowers, John Simpson, John Browne,
John Dwight, William Knapp, Robert Tucke, Edward
Garfield, Edmund Lewis, Nicholas Knapp,
William Barshaw, George Muimings, Thomas
Arnold, Thomas Rogers, Edward Dix, Thomas
Bartlett, each 30 ; Joseph Morse, William Baker,
Esther -Pickeran, Richard Sawtel, John Livermore,
John Tomson, Christopher Grant, Thomas Wincoll,
John [Wm.] Gutteriilge, John Tucker, Richard
Beers, Tiiomas Hastings, Daniel Pierce, George
Richardson, James Cutler, John Griggs, Lawrence
Waters, Edward Lamb, Martin Underwood, Ed-
mund White, John Ellet, John Winter, Miles
Nutt, each 25 ; Robert Veazy, John Varhan, Rob-
ert Jennison, Robert Betts, Henry Dengaine,
John Rose, Thomas Mason, Henry Cuttris, Thomas
Brooks, Daniel Morse, Mathew Hitchcock, Thomas
Smith, Benjamin Crispe, Thomas Parish, Roger
Wellington, Garret Church, 20 acres each.
Freemen of Watertown prior to ICIO. The
first fourteen named applied in October, 1630.
Admitted May, 1631, Mr. George Phillips, llr.
Richard Brown, Sergeant John Strickland, Edmund
Lockwood, John Page, John Doggett,
Ephraim Child, Robert Seeley, Mr. William
Clarke, Mr. Robert Feake, Samuel Hosier, Charles
Chadwiek, Mr. William Jennison, Daniel Abbott,
Jonas Weede, Caj)tain Daniel Patrick, Mr. John
Oldham, John Gasse, Mr. Richard Saltonstall
(Jr.), Mr. John Masters, John Warren, Daniel
Finch, Isaac Sterne, John Firmin, Francis Smith ;
March, 1632, Abraham Browne; NovcTuber, 1632,
John Benjamin ; March, 1633, John White, John
Smith; May, 1634., Thomas Cakebread, Mr.
Thomas Mayhew, Edward How, John Hayward,
Andrew Ward; September, 1634., Bryan Pendleton,
Martin Underwood, Anthony Pierce, John
Bernard, John Eddy, Samuel Smitli, John 15rownc,
Robert Reynolds, Nathaniel Foote, Robert Abbott,
Robert Coe; March, l(i35, Hugh Mason, Thomas
Bartlett, (Jeorge Munning, Edward Dix, John
Prince, John Wolcott ; May, 1635, Barnabas
Wines, John Reynolds, Henry Brigiit, Thouiiis