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Colonial Boston |
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Boston is the capital city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. It is the unofficial capital and largest city in New England. Founded in 1630, Boston is one of the oldest, wealthiest and most culturally significant cities in the United States. Its economy is based on higher education, research, health care, finance, and technology, principally biotechnology. Boston has many nicknames. The City on a Hill came from original Massachusetts Bay Colony's governor John Winthrop's goal to create the biblical "City on a Hill." It also refers to the original three hills of Boston. Beantown refers to early Bostonian tradition of making baked beans with imported molasses. The Hub is a shortened form of a phrase recorded by writer Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Hub of the Solar System. William Tudor, co-founder of the North American Review, christened the city The Athens of America for its great cultural and intellectual influence. Boston is sometimes called the Puritan City because its founders were Puritans, and also called The Cradle of Liberty for its role in instigating the American Revolution. Boston was founded on 1630-11-17, by Puritan colonists from England, on a peninsula called Shawmut by its original Native American inhabitants. The peninsula was connected to the mainland by a narrow isthmus, and surrounded by the waters of Massachusetts Bay and the Back Bay, an estuary of the Charles River. Boston's early European settlers first called the area Trimountaine. They later renamed the town for Boston, England, in Lincolnshire, from which several prominent "pilgrim" colonists emigrated. A majority of Boston's early citizens were Puritans. Massachusetts Bay Colony's original governor, John Winthrop, gave a famous sermon entitled "a City upon a Hill," which captured the idea that Boston had a special covenant with God. Puritan ethics molded an extremely stable and well-structured society in Boston. For example, shortly after Boston's settlement, Puritans founded America's first public school, Boston Latin School (1635), and America's first college, Harvard College (1636). Hard work, moral uprightness, and an emphasis on education remain part of Boston's culture. Until the 1760s, Boston was America's largest, wealthiest, and most influential city |
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Attractive printed Broadside detailing the expenses for the town of Boston, including Faneuil Hall, from 1803 to 1804 |
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Date: September 1804 - Place: Boston, MA |
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Printed document, one page, 14" x 18", [May 1803 - May 1804], being a "Statement of the Expenses of the Town of Boston", as submitted by Benjamin Sumner, treasurer and collector, Boston: September 1804. Containing a detailed account of expenditures for schools; assessors; salaries; constables; bells and clocks; printing; engines and pumps; lamps; mall and common; streets; improvements; support for the poor. With a "Comparative Statement of the Proceeds of Tax for 1801 and 1802 in the lower third. Signed in type by the selectman of Boston, including: Charles Bulfinch, David Tilden, William Porter, John Tileston, Ebenezer Oliver and four others. Written twice on the verso, apparently by Sumner is an interesting contemporary sentiment "Oppress Not the Poor". After the Revolution, Boston quickly became one of the world's wealthiest international trading ports due to its proximity as the closest American port to Europe - major exports included rum, fish, salt, and tobacco. Very fine. |
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Stock Number-39159-001 |
$ 2,750 |
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