The Early History of Boston's North End

Boston's North End, the city's oldest residential neighborhood, has had a colorful history dating back to 1630 when it was founded by English clergyman William Blackstone (Boston: History 2008; All About). Blackstone who also happened to be the first white settler in the area from across the Atlantic the Protestant religious sect, the Puritans (Boston: History 2008; All About). Boston was named for the Puritans' home in Lincolnshire, England and soon became the capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (Boston: History 2008). As it was bounded by water on three sides, Boston was the major New England seaport in the American colonies, as well as being "the largest British settlement on the continent" (Boston: History 2008). Until his arrival, what is now Boston's North End was simply a point of land extending into a natural harbor connected to the Atlantic Ocean, and it was originally occupied by Native American tribes that named the peninsula "Shawmut," meaning "land accessible by water" (Boston: History 2008). The deaths of two-thirds of the native population to a European disease for which they had no immunity left the way clear for European settlers to come in and form their community (Boston: History 2008). Blackstone led a small band of Puritans, but the band subsequently left him alone in his home on top of what was later known as Beacon Hill (Boston: History 2008). As the years passed, Blackstone and the new En

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Boston's port, spurring the war (Wilkie 2008). Like other neighborhoods and cities in the colonies, the North End was the site of much activism in protest of British rule, and thus it is today the site of many historic places in America's history. The night of April 18, 1775 marked his historic ride, and he "left his modest wooden home in Boston's North End and set out on a ride that would make him a legend" (All About). His house still stands, now Boston-proper's "oldest standing building" and one of the few still left from America's early colonial era (All About). After the Revolutionary War, Boston went back to its accustomed maritime activity, shipping out cargoes of ocean fish and rum from New England and tobacco from the South (Boston: History 2008). Trade expanded, and Boston began trading with China and India to bring back exotic silks, spices, and teas, an endeavor made possible by the design of the new and faster clipper ship, which "further enhanced Boston's maritime supremacy" (Boston: History 2008). During the 1830s, Boston took a stand against slavery when the leader of the abolitionist movement, William Garrison, began publishing an antislavery newspaper entitled The Liberator (Boston 2008). Du
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