Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . by Wood, one of the early Avriters aboutBoston ; the reader will kuoAv that Beacon and its two outlyingspurs of Cotton (Pemberton) and j\It. Vernon are meant. On the 7th of September, 1630 (old style), at a courtheld in Charlestown, it Avas ordered that Trimountain be called Boston. ]\Iany of the set-tlers had already taken uptheir residence there, and thither the frame of thegovernors house was car-ried, and people began tobuild their houses againstwinter. Clinging to theold associations of theirnative land, the settlersnamed their new home fo
Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . by Wood, one of the early Avriters aboutBoston ; the reader will kuoAv that Beacon and its two outlyingspurs of Cotton (Pemberton) and j\It. Vernon are meant. On the 7th of September, 1630 (old style), at a courtheld in Charlestown, it Avas ordered that Trimountain be called Boston. ]\Iany of the set-tlers had already taken uptheir residence there, and thither the frame of thegovernors house was car-ried, and people began tobuild their houses againstwinter. Clinging to theold associations of theirnative land, the settlersnamed their new home forold Bostonin Lincolnshire,England, whence a num-1 )vv of members of the com-pany had emigrated. Thename itself owes its originto Botolph, a pious oldSaxon of the seventh cen-tury, afterwards canonizedST. botolphs, , as tlic tuteLu salut of m&v- iners, and shows an ingenuity of corruption for wliicli Englandis famed. Eeciprocal courtesies have been exchanged betweenEnglish Boston and her namesake. The former presuntt-d her. INTRODUCTION. 7 charter in a frame of the wood of old Saint Botolphs church,which hangs in our City Hall, while Edward Everett, in thename of the descendants and admirers of John Cotton, gave$ 2,000 for the restoration of a chapel in St. Botolphs, and theerection therein of a monument to the memory of that muchvenerated divine, who had been vicar of St. Botolphs and-afterwards minister of the First Church of Christ in Boston,New England. Boston had three striking topographical features. First, itspeninsular character, united by a narrow isthmus to the mainland; next, its three hills, of which the most westerly (Beacon)was the highest, all washed at their base by the sea ; and lastly,corresponding to her hills, were three coves, of which the mosteasterly, enclosed by the headlands of Copps and Fort Hill,became the Town Cove and Dock. Of the other coves, the onelying to the south of the Town Cove was embraced betweenthe point of land near the
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