The history and antiquities of Boston .. . Mr. Wilsonand the greatest part of the church, re-moved thither. Whither also, the frameof the Governors house was carried,when people began to build their housesagainst winter, and this place was calledBoston.* To this memorable man, as to othersbefore his time as well as since, justicewill eventually be done. And thoughthe noble City, whose foundation he laid,be the last to honor his name, it will oneday, it is not to be doubted, pay thedebt which it ov;es his memory with in-terest. Should not the principal street in the City bear his name ? ]Mr. Bl
The history and antiquities of Boston .. . Mr. Wilsonand the greatest part of the church, re-moved thither. Whither also, the frameof the Governors house was carried,when people began to build their housesagainst winter, and this place was calledBoston.* To this memorable man, as to othersbefore his time as well as since, justicewill eventually be done. And thoughthe noble City, whose foundation he laid,be the last to honor his name, it will oneday, it is not to be doubted, pay thedebt which it ov;es his memory with in-terest. Should not the principal street in the City bear his name ? ]Mr. Blackstone having died a month before the breaking out ofPhilips War, he was spared the witnessing of the horrors of that dis-tressing period ; but the Indians ravaged his plantation, burnt up hisbuildings, and, what will ever be deeply deplored, his library, was large and valuable for those days, and its loss to the historyof Boston and to New England can never be known, f Four days after the first Court was held at Charlestown,. MR. BLACKSTONE S RESIDENCE. August 27. the first ordination took place. J Mr. Wilson was ordained Pastor, or teaching Elder, over the church there, and also over thatpart of the the same church which had removed to Mr. Blackstonesside of the river. convinced that Blackstones Point was thatafterwards called Bartons Point, now nearthe northern termination of Leveret Street,and the Depot of the Lowell Rail Road. Hispoint is easier located than his house or hisspring. That there were many springs on thispart of Shawraut, has always been )Ie. House No. 19, Poplar Street, covers alarge spring, which, in 1838, afforded alsun-dance of water a considerable part of theyear. This writer then occupied that house ;and this spring, it is not unlikely, was theidentical spring near which Blackstone Shaw says in his Description of Boston,103, agrees very well with this. Black-stones Spring, he observes, is yet to beseen [about 1800] on t
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