Identifier: encyclopaediabri04kell (find matches)
Title: The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ... A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Kellogg, D. O. (Day Otis), 1796-1874 Baynes, T. Spencer (Thomas Spencer), 1823-1887 Smith, W. Robertson (William Robertson), 1846-1894
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Werner
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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that at a court held inOharlestown, September 17 (n.s.), 1630, It is orderedthat Trimountaine shall be called Boston. This has con-sequently been the date assumed for the foundation of whatu now the present city, and the second centennial of which was commemorated by public civic services, an oration IjyJosiah Quiucy, a former mayor, then president of ilarvardUniversity, and a poem by the banker-poet, CharlesSprague. It is not probable that the peninsula wasoccupied tiU a month later. Blaxton, not finding thenew-comers congenial associates, sold out his rights tothem in 1634, and moved elsewhere. It has often beensaid, and has been widely accepted, that Boston received itsname in compliment to the second minister of its firstchurch, the Rev. John Cotton, formerly vicar of StBotolphs, borough of Boston, Lincolnshire, England.This was not the case. The Rev. John Wilson, of KingsCollege, Cambridge, and of Sudbury, in Suffolk, England,came in Winthrops company, and was first pastor of the
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DNC HALr cue. MrLE Ground-Plan of the City of Boston.1 MsMMBuilotts Hospital.^ 2. State House. 3. Alhenaum. 4. Court-HouBe. & Faneull HsU. 6. City Hall. 7. Ezchange. 8. Custom House. 9. Bunkers HIDMonufaent. 10. Insane QospltoL 11. nousu of Correction. 13. Telegraph HiU (Dorchester Heights) . Low Water mark. 5 Fathom church.,, Cotton did not arrive till September 4, 1633,three years after the name Boston had been adopted.Undoubtedly the name was chosen in compliment to the(nuch honoured Mr Isaac Johnson, one of the foremost inthe enterprise, who with his wife, the Lady Arbella,daughter of the Earl of Lincoln, came with Wiuthrop ina vessel bearing her name. Johnson was from the EnglishBoston, as were also his associates, Atherton Hough, whobi>d baen mayor of the borough, and Thomas Leverett,f ruling elder of the church, who had been an alderman.Some graceful courtesies have been exchanged in recentyears between the two cities. The English Boston sentover a copy of her charter, f

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