Excerpt from An Address Delivered at the Formation of the Blackstone Monument Association: Together With the Preliminaries, and Proceedings at Study Hill, July 4, 1855 Shawmut, was taxed 12 Shillings. This was a large tax for those times, and would imply that he had made considerable improvements at Shawmut.' Shawmut was the Indian name of the peninsula where the city of Boston now stands; and when Governor Winthrop and his company arrived at Charles town, in 1630, they found Blackstone in quiet possession of Shawmut, opposite the location they had chosen. Blackstone's cottage stood near a spring on the south side of the mouth of Charles river, and he was at that time the only person who inhabited Boston. Here he cultivated a garden and planted an orchard and raised the first apples in Massachusetts. 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.