Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston.: By Samuel Adams Drake.

LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.
destroyed, with his papers and books,- a circumstance that has
prevented, perhaps, the veil being lifted that shrouds his early
history. It is said no trace of his grave exists; but he left
his name to a noble river, and the city which he founded perpetuates it by a public square and street.
The settlers at Charlestown called Shawmut Trimlountain, not,
says Shaw, on account of the three principal hills, - subsequently Copp's, Beacon, and Fort, -but from the three peaks of
Beacon Hill, which was then considered quite a high mountain,
and is so spoken of by Wood, one of the early writers about
Boston; the reader will know that Beacon and its two outlying
spurs of Cotton (Pemberton) and Mt. Vernon are meant.
On the 7th of September, 1630 (old style), at a court
held in Charlestown, it was ordered that Trimluountain be called
Boston. MlIany of the set'I~~~ tiers had already taken up
their residence there, and
"thither the frame of the
governor's house was car 3~<~~~: "ried, and people began to
build their houses against
: I n< winter." Clinging to the
-..... ~~-L1 i | old associations of their
-:- 1 1 - Xnative land, the settlers
I:i 0 f lnamed their new home for
:-:1~ fi~ l i!old Bostonin Lincolnshire,
*,, 1 |I - Eng,lanld, whence a num -- h- 2 i i; l,. ber of members of the colr -~ |~~~~~ X Ii ipany had emig,rated. The
I name itself owes its origin
Gd2 — to Botolph, a pious old
~_<5~~~~~ Saxon of the seventh cen tury, afterwards canonized
ST. BOTOLPH'S, BOSTON, ENGLAND. as tihe tutelar saint of mariners, and shows an ingenuity of corruption for which England
is famed. RPeciprocal courtesies have been exchanged between
English Boston and her namesake. The former presented her
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