The Encyclopaedia Britannica; .. A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . BOSTON 3 a. hold, a theatre, a lank, a lecture-hall, &a A singleJonely ffnite man, the Rev. William Blaxton, a clergymanof the English Church, waa then Living, with house,orchard, and garden on the slope of the central hill, sup-posed to have come over in 1623, one of several isolatedsettlers on the promontories and islands of the bay, called the old planters. He invited Winthrops company tocross the river and build their cabins on his side, becauseof the purer and more abundant water-springs. On therecord

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The Encyclopaedia Britannica; .. A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . BOSTON 3 a. hold, a theatre, a lank, a lecture-hall, &a A singleJonely ffnite man, the Rev. William Blaxton, a clergymanof the English Church, waa then Living, with house,orchard, and garden on the slope of the central hill, sup-posed to have come over in 1623, one of several isolatedsettlers on the promontories and islands of the bay, called the old planters. He invited Winthrops company tocross the river and build their cabins on his side, becauseof the purer and more abundant water-springs. On therecords of the company we read, that at a court held inOharlestown, September 17 (), 1630, It is orderedthat Trimountaine shall be called Boston. This has con-sequently been the date assumed for the foundation of whatu now the present city, and the second centennial of which was commemorated by public civic services, an oration IjyJosiah Quiucy, a former mayor, then president of ilarvardUniversity, and a poem by the banker-poet, CharlesSprague. It is not probable that the peninsu

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