Boston
merchant dynasties - the Faneuils
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Boston was created in 1630, when a colony of settlers from the Massachusetts
Bay Company moved from what is now Charlestown to the place the Indians
called Shawmut, on invitation of Reverend William Blaxton, who had settled
there as early as 1625. The Puritan spirit that dominated these settlers,
most of whom came from Lincolnshire in England, called for an agricultural
society. But the soil of New England would not permit it and it was soon
evident that the future of the colony rested with the seafarers and
fishermen. Boston would eventually take the lead in New England, both
socially …
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