Boston illustrated; . OSTON ILLUSTRATED. I. A GLANCE AT ITS HISTORY. BOSTON was originally by the Indians called Sliaw-nmtt, but the colonists of 1G30, wandering sontliwardfrom their landing-place at Salem, named it Trimoun-taine. Charlestown, which was occupied by them in July,1G30, was speedily abandoned because there was found nogood spring of water, and the peninsula close by hav-ing- been bought of its sole white inhabitant, Mr. WilliamBlaxton, or Blackstone, an Englishman, who had been living there seveialyears, the settlement was transferred thither on the 7th of September, O. S.(17th N
Boston illustrated; . OSTON ILLUSTRATED. I. A GLANCE AT ITS HISTORY. BOSTON was originally by the Indians called Sliaw-nmtt, but the colonists of 1G30, wandering sontliwardfrom their landing-place at Salem, named it Trimoun-taine. Charlestown, which was occupied by them in July,1G30, was speedily abandoned because there was found nogood spring of water, and the peninsula close by hav-ing- been bought of its sole white inhabitant, Mr. WilliamBlaxton, or Blackstone, an Englishman, who had been living there seveialyears, the settlement was transferred thither on the 7th of September, O. S.(17th N. S.). On the same day the court held at Charlestown ordered thatTrimountaine be called Boston. This name was given to it in memory of Bos-ton in Old England, from which many of the colonists had emigrated, andwhich was the former home of Mr. Isaac Johnson, next to Governor Wintlu-opthe most important man among the baud of immigrants. The name of Trimoun-taine, which has been transformed into Tremont, was peculiarly a
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