Gilbert Nash, Historical Sketch of the Town of Weymouth, Massachusetts (1885)

The town's history, with the early land records. Used for the Holbrook and Stream families:

• The Weymouth land book of about 1644 and the great lots of 1651/2 (pp. 251-283): parcels "first giuen to Thomas Holbrooke" on Round Island, "Kingoke hill," "the plaine" and the Westerneck, and his great lot no. 21 east of Fresh Pond (now Whitman's Pond); "Eyght acres in the East ffield first granted to Widow Streame" (p. 257); the great lot of "Widow Streame" beside John Holbrook (pp. 282-283); land of a Thomas Streame.
• The Indian deed for Weymouth, witnessed by the townsmen, Thomas Holbrook among them, with a marginal agreement with Natahant dated March 1652.
• "Old Spain," the old name of North Weymouth, which the town had carried "from time immemorial, and whose origin cannot now be traced."
• The raids on Weymouth in February, March and April 1676 (pp. 37-39).
• The schoolhouse (1681) and meeting house (1682), built on land "bought of Capt. John Holbrook."

For King Philip's War (research/king-philips-war/), pp. 37-41: Capt. William Torrey's petitions for the Weymouth militia committee, of 28 Mar 1676 (Mass. Archives 68:179), with the ten Weymouth men "upon the country service at those Towns upon Connecticut river" (p. 38), and the undated one (68:233) against "a warrant from the honorable Major for the impressing of six able men": "we have ten men out already ... four killed by the enemy, already ... Just at this instant saw appearing of fire and smoke about the Town" (p. 39 n.), very probably the draft for Capt. John Holbrook's company of April 1676, which took "6 men from Weymouth"; and Sgt. Thomas Pratt, the man killed at Weymouth on 19 Apr 1676 (p. 39). Nash's raid of "Feb. 12" has no contemporary support; Mather and Hubbard put the burning of Weymouth's houses on 25 Feb 1675/6.