Abigail Clarke

James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until his death in 1625. Although he wanted to bring about a closer union, the kingdoms of Scotland and England remained individual sovereign states, with their own parliaments, judiciaries, and laws, both ruled by James in personal union. James was the son of Mary, Queen of Scots

In July of 1630, Sir Richard Saltonstall and Reverend George Phillips and others from the Winthrop fleet row up the river from Charlestown and settle Watertown. In September, the settlement is officially incorporated into the Massachusetts Bay Colony as Watertown.

In 1665 The Old Burying Ground is established on what is now modern day Arlington Street.

On July 19, 1776 the Treaty of Watertown is signed at the Edmund Fowle House. The treaty establishes a military alliance between the United States and the St. John’s Indians and some of the Mi’kmaw bands against Great Britain in the Revolutionary War.