. The New England magazine . of the more inland parts ofMassachusetts. Our forefathers found gospel to the Indians in Dorchester; andin the vestry of the meeting-house of theFirst Parish of Dorchester stands now thechair of the Apostle Eliot, as all NewEnglanders love to call him. Mr. Eliot became convinced that theIndians were better off removed from theimmediate neighborhood of the whitepeople, and finally, the town, in 1656,granted six thousand acres to them atPunkapog. There they removed. In1690, good John Eliot died, and wasburied in the old Roxbury burying-groundby Eustis Street, where i

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. The New England magazine . of the more inland parts ofMassachusetts. Our forefathers found gospel to the Indians in Dorchester; andin the vestry of the meeting-house of theFirst Parish of Dorchester stands now thechair of the Apostle Eliot, as all NewEnglanders love to call him. Mr. Eliot became convinced that theIndians were better off removed from theimmediate neighborhood of the whitepeople, and finally, the town, in 1656,granted six thousand acres to them atPunkapog. There they removed. In1690, good John Eliot died, and wasburied in the old Roxbury burying-groundby Eustis Street, where in later years astone now standing was erected to hismemory. Dorchester was, then, the first settle-ment in what is now Suffolk County ; butit did not receive its name until fourmonths later, when the Court of Assistantsordered that •Trimountaine shall becalled Boston; Mattapan, Dorchester;and the towne upon Charles Ryver,Watertown. Three years later, in second shipload of passengers came to 330 EARL Y D OR

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