. Some events of Boston and its neighbors . ilf Is. rTi /e^ —Shag Rocks ■ ^Boston ^(jing LedgePeddocksry ji^H?^ mBeachr^ ^Squantum ^^od^ G^ Ilinoham Bumk Mut ^«2/ j^ Grape U ^r^^-r\. oSlate Boston ,° _e2 I outh, in Devon, England, landed here and took up his died several years later and his son leased it. In 1644 Massachu-setts, without having the right really to do so, granted the island toDorchester. The lease was for £20 a year, and the income was to beused to pay the salary of a schoolmaster for the town. It has beenasserted that this was th
. Some events of Boston and its neighbors . ilf Is. rTi /e^ —Shag Rocks ■ ^Boston ^(jing LedgePeddocksry ji^H?^ mBeachr^ ^Squantum ^^od^ G^ Ilinoham Bumk Mut ^«2/ j^ Grape U ^r^^-r\. oSlate Boston ,° _e2 I outh, in Devon, England, landed here and took up his died several years later and his son leased it. In 1644 Massachu-setts, without having the right really to do so, granted the island toDorchester. The lease was for £20 a year, and the income was to beused to pay the salary of a schoolmaster for the town. It has beenasserted that this was the first money ever raised by taxes for such apurpose. The Thompson family returned, claimed the island, and quiteproperly had it restored to them by the Court. In 1834 the BostonFarm School Association purchased it and annexed it to Boston, atthe same time granting to the people of Dorchester the right to digclams there. Here later on the Farm School was established. Agrove of trees was planted in 1840 by the Rev. Theodore after the Revolution George Minot purchased part of ThompsonsIsland with the funds that were given him by the Government forpowder that he had smuggled through the British lin
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