THE HISTORIC TREES OF MASSACHUSETTS 



Col. Watson, when a young man, imported 

 through a Boston sea-captain named 

 Cameron, several linden trees from London, 

 and planted them in the garden behind the 

 house which he built on the site of the pre- 

 sent Hathaway house, about I745. 1 Some 

 of the original trees remain and are among 

 the finest of their kind in the country. The 

 row on the street was taken from them and 

 set out about fifteen years later. There 

 are eight trees in this row and they bear an 

 inscription at either end of the group which 

 reads, 



LINDEN TREES 



PLANTED BY 



COL. GEORGE WATSON 



1760 



Many lindens have sprung from this same 

 stock, and without doubt the beautiful tree 

 standing on the knoll above the "Plymouth 

 Rock" came from this source. W. T. Davis, 

 in his "Memoirs of an Octogenarian," writes 

 of this tree in the following interesting 

 way: 



"The linden tree standing on the corner 



1 Davis, "Historical Sketch and Titles of Estates," p. 181. 



