. A junior class history of the United States; to which are added the Declaration of independence, and the Constitution of the United States .. . in the colony.—Hildreth. 11. What is said of the growth of the colony ? What grant did they obtain in 1630 ?Their numbers then ? 12. What led to the settlement of Salem ? What other settle-ments were made ? 13. Who settled Boston ? Why so called ? Its Indian name ? 58 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES [1630 chosen the lirst governor of the Colony of Massachusetts ;and in 1630 he came out with about three hundred fami-lies, intending to settle atCharlestow
. A junior class history of the United States; to which are added the Declaration of independence, and the Constitution of the United States .. . in the colony.—Hildreth. 11. What is said of the growth of the colony ? What grant did they obtain in 1630 ?Their numbers then ? 12. What led to the settlement of Salem ? What other settle-ments were made ? 13. Who settled Boston ? Why so called ? Its Indian name ? 58 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES [1630 chosen the lirst governor of the Colony of Massachusetts ;and in 1630 he came out with about three hundred fami-lies, intending to settle atCharlestown ; but as the placewas found to be wanting ingood water, they removed to alittle peninsula, called by theIndians Sliawniut.* but whichthe settlers called Boston, inmemory of Boston in England,from which many of them hademigrated.! 14. This colony, after ashoit time, was very prosper-ous. J Dorchester, Roxbury,§Lynn, and other places near J^oston, were settled in lOoO ;and, in a short time, the wbole coast region lying betweenPlymouth Colonv and the Meirimac was dotted with tliriv-ing settlements. For a time the voters of the colony met. JOHN WINTHllDP * This word signified living fountains, from the excellent water fonnd at theplace. The English called it Trimont (now Tremont), from its three principal hills,afterwards named Copps, Beacon, and Fort, or, as some suppose, from the threepeaks of Beacon Hill. The first settler at this place was an eccentric person namedWilliam Blackstone. t At this time (1C30), there was a feeble colony in Virginia ; a very small Dutchsettlement in Kew York ; a population of about three hundred at Plymouth ; about asmany more English inhabitants divided between Salem and Charlestown ; a fewsettlers scattered up and down the coast, and all the rest a vast wilderness, the covertof wild beasts and savages.—iWwa^c? EvereU. X During 1G30, at least fifteen hundied persons came from England. In ten yearsnot less than twenty thousand had been brought
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