. Boston, a guide book . Episcopal, 136 Tremont Stephens Church, Protestant Episcopal, Florence Street, South Church, Congregational Unitarian, Copley Square, Back Universalist Church, Columbus Avenue, corner of Clarendon Street, South Church, Congregational Trinitarian, Tremont, corner of West Brookline Street, South Congregational Church, Congregational Unitarian, Newbury, cor-ner of Exeter Street, Back Baptist Church, Bowdoin Square, West Israel, Jewish, Commonwealth Avenue, corner of Blandford Street, Back Bay
. Boston, a guide book . Episcopal, 136 Tremont Stephens Church, Protestant Episcopal, Florence Street, South Church, Congregational Unitarian, Copley Square, Back Universalist Church, Columbus Avenue, corner of Clarendon Street, South Church, Congregational Trinitarian, Tremont, corner of West Brookline Street, South Congregational Church, Congregational Unitarian, Newbury, cor-ner of Exeter Street, Back Baptist Church, Bowdoin Square, West Israel, Jewish, Commonwealth Avenue, corner of Blandford Street, Back Street Methodist Episcopal Church, Tremont, corner of West Concord Street, South Temple Church, Baptist, 82 Tremont Church, Protestant Episcopal, Copley Square, Back Ciiurcm, Congregational Trinitarian, 4CS5 Columbus Avenue, South Avknue Church, Baptist, Warren Avenue, corner of West Canton Street, South End. BOSTON: A GUIDE BOOK I. MODERN BOSTON HISTORICAL SKETCH. HE town of Boston was founded in 1630 by Englishcolonists sent out by the Governor and Company ofthe Massachusetts Bay in New England, under thelead of John Winthrop, the second governor of the BayColony, who arrived at Salem in June of that yearwith the charter of 1629. It originated in an orderpassed by the Court of Assistants sitting in the Gov-ernors House in Charlestown, on the opposite side ofthe Charles River, first selected as their place of settle-ment. This order was adopted September 17 (7 O. S.),and estabUshed three towns at once by the simpledictum, that Trimountane shalbe called Boston ; Mat-O/ZV^ tapan, Dorchester; & y^ towne vpon Charles Ryver, Waterton. Tri-A^ mountane consisted of a peninsula with three hills, the highest (the(^f\\ present Beacon Hill), as seen from Charlestown, presenting three distinctS V peaks. Hence this name, given it by the colonists from Endicotts com-pany at Salem, who had preceded the Winthrop colonists in the Charles
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