Excerpt from Historical Sketch of Boston: Containing a Brief Account of Its Settlement, Rise and Progress, With a Glance at Its Present and Prospective Prosperity The first white man who settled in Boston proper was William Blackstone, an Episcopal clergyman, who wrote to Governor Winthrop, such a glowing description of the place where he had pitched his tent that the Governor was induced to leave Charlestown where he was then located, and settle at Trimountain, as the whites had named the place, or Shawmut as the Indians called it. This happened in August, 1630. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.