Early Boston
The city of Boston is one of the most important cities to the founding of the United States. In was once the most influential city until the country began to grow. This is were the wealth and founding fathers started it all. When visitors go to this city they can find a plethora of history and a great Boston hotel to plan their day trips from. This port city its peninsula was once called Trimountaine for the three peninsulas that it used to have. Two of them have been were leveled only one peninsula, Beacon Hill, still remains as an major feature to the city.
The first Bostonian was William Blaxton. He lived alone from 1625 until more settlers came in 1630 and bought land from Blaxton to start the water supplies and the settlement. They were mostly Puritans and of course they still had allegiance to the King. The Cambridge Agreement made this city self governing but still answering to the King. That is were John Winthrop came in to become the first governor of the settlement for the King. It is amazing to learn the many details of the earliest times of Boston because the key players are all intertwined by friendship, family and marriage. They want on to fight over the lands and the rights to govern as well as who is invited to stay or asked to leave.
The name Boston was given on September 7th in 1630. It was named after a town named Boston in the Lincolnshire of England. There were several influential colonists who came from there so they wanted to recreate it here. This area was also known as the Massachusetts Bay Colony. This city was believed to be a community of people that had a special covenant with God. Every thing was built and run around the Word of God. The values created a very stable and structured society which was base in of course moral righteousness, hard work and strong education. The first school in America was the Boston Latin School built in 1635. The first college in America was also built in this city in 1636, Harvard College, which of course is still the cream of the crop today.