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.”