. Some events of Boston and its neighbors . group of islands. Here partof the crew landed and built a small stone house or fort for comfortand for protection against the Indians. From here Gosnold visitedthe mainland, probably at New Bedford, twice landing at Naushon,where he sowed grain and noticed many deer. There were manydissenters in the little colony, and three weeks had barely passed whenthe Concord hoisted anchor and sailed for Exmouth, England,where she arrived without one cake of bread, nor any drink but alittle vinegar. Gosnold joined the Jamestown expedition in 1607,Captain John Sm
. Some events of Boston and its neighbors . group of islands. Here partof the crew landed and built a small stone house or fort for comfortand for protection against the Indians. From here Gosnold visitedthe mainland, probably at New Bedford, twice landing at Naushon,where he sowed grain and noticed many deer. There were manydissenters in the little colony, and three weeks had barely passed whenthe Concord hoisted anchor and sailed for Exmouth, England,where she arrived without one cake of bread, nor any drink but alittle vinegar. Gosnold joined the Jamestown expedition in 1607,Captain John Smith also being on the same voyage. Gosnold died thesame year in Jamestown and was buried there. The Gosnold Memorial Committee celebrated the three hundredth!anniversary of Gosnolds landing at Cuttyhunk by laying the corner-stone of a memorial tower near the place where he landed. TheBoston men on the committee who w^ere present at the exerciseswere F. E. Abbot, Edwin D. Mead, and G. G. Williams. SOME EVENTS OF BOSTON AND ITS NEIGHBORS 0). From a photograph. GOSNOLD MEMORIAL. Courtesy of George E. Tripp The Gosnold Monument is on a small island in a pond in the larger island of Cuttyhunk. Gos-nold is the name of the near-by town which embraces all the Elizabeth Islands. NEW ENGLAND FIRST NAMED Captain John Smith, Admiral of New England, gave us thname of New England. With four London merchants he left Englanin March, 1614, on a trading expedition, sailing for North Virgini;as North America was then called. He landed near the PenobsccRiver and mentions the Tarrantine Indians who lived on tfeast side of this river. As he expressed it, I chanced to arrive iMonahigan, an He of America ... to take whales, for which we haone Samuel Crampton and divers others expert in that found this whale fishing a costly conclusion. We saw manybut could not kill any. Captain Smith therefore in a small bo;sailed westward along the coast with a few of his men, noting carfully the promontor
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