John Pond arrived here with his family after sailing in the Lyon with supplies ordered by Governor John Winthrop.
We know him for his letter to his parents from 1630, which appears in Carla Mulford et al., Early American Writings (New York: Oxford UP, 2002) 291-92. Mulford's footnote for Watertown describes this community of settlers, located about here I am guessing, as "disgruntled about the lack of representation in government." Pond's letter also complains about only having water to drink--he asks his brother to send "a hogshead of malt unground" (291). He also notes that the few local Indians are "crafty people" who will "cozen and cheat." "Proper and clean-jointed men," many "go naked without a skin about their loins" while others "get Englishmen's apparel" (291). Download 1630WatertownJohnPond.kmz (1.0K).
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