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New Towne, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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In 1630, the General Court, meeting in
Boston, perceived a gap
in the defenses of the new Massachusetts Bay Colony “…and
therefore chose a place situate on Charles River, between
Charles
Towne and
Water Towne, where they erected a town
called
New Town, now named
Cambridge...”
1,2
1Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc., xiii. 136.
Cited in Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts,
1630-1877. H. O. Houghton and Company (Boston:1877), p. 7.
2Not everybody in Harvard Square today
would be gratified to know that its location was chosen with
reference to that of those particular neighbors, but that’s
how it was. Snooty Weston would also like to forget, perhaps,
that it started out as Watertown Farms…
